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  • The Final Serve

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    Senior Casey Johnson fell in the round of 32 in the NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Individual Championship, which took place on May 21- 23. The tournament was held at the Linder Family Tennis Center at Ohio Northern University and drew 32 student-athletes from across the nation. This was Johnson’s third consecutive trip to the…

  • Alumna starts fashion magazine

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    A recent graduate’s passion for publication and her religion has led her to start a full-fledged magazine about the lives and fashion of modern Muslim-American women. Laila Mir, who graduated in May as an EMAC and marketing major, wanted to originally film short documentaries on Muslim women with a focus on fashion for her senior…

  • Charges levied against Jindal

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    The Indian Central Bureau for Invesitigation charged the School of Management’s namesake on April 29 with criminal conspiracy in connection with the allocation of a coal block in 2008. Naveen Jindal, who received his MBA from UTD in 1992 and had the School of Management named in his honor after he donated $30 million in…

  • Policy change good for campus

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    “Campus Cop Blocks Students from Promoting Conservative Group” boldly proclaimed a Fox News headline from April 24 over a video purportedly showing an egregious violation of student rights. The premise of the article was that a UT Dallas campus police officer blocked a conservative student group, the Network of Enlightened Women (NeW), from petitioning students…

  • Legislature passes concealed carry bill

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    After three sessions of repeated debates in the Texas Legislature, Senate Bill 11, the controversial concealed carry on campus bill, passed the Texas House 98-47 on May 31. The bill currently awaits Gov. Greg Abbott’s approval. Both sides went back and forth, adding and deleting amendments to the bill in the week before it passed.…

  • What it’s like to be Muslim in America

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    Nour Sharaf was on Facebook when she saw a link about the shooting in Garland. Immediately, her heart filled with dread. On May 3, two gunmen opened fire outside an art exhibit held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland that displayed cartoon depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. Participants had the opportunity to win a…

  • Ed Board: Disclosing, acquiring private photos should be sex crime

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    Editor’s Note: This article was originally published on Nov. 3 Millennials, and society at large, are consuming and molding electronic communication quicker every day, and the legal system isn’t keeping up. From the widespread distribution of celebrity nude photos to Texas’ ruling against the banning of upskirt photos, the attainment and dissemination of private media…

  • Gavran Interview

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    Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a program that originally aired on February 17. https://soundcloud.com/the-mercury/mmn-gavran-interview

  • A journalist’s oath

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    I’ve been a student reporter for five years now, yet as I read through Neil Henry’s “American Carnival: Journalism under siege in the age of new media” a humbling realization dawned upon me. For someone who has passionately dedicated herself to bringing the truth before the student body at UTD, I have been surprisingly shallow…

  • “Pitch Perfect 2” fails to capture magic of first film

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    “Pitch Perfect 2” doubles down on its musical and comedic strengths, but as it attempts to be more serious, the film loses some of the fun campiness that was so essential to the first film becoming a hit. The first “Pitch Perfect” film, directed by Jason Moore, was a surprise hit, given the subject matter.…