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by Johnathan Lane Mercury Contributor Strong pitching and good hitting have propelled the UTD baseball team to an impressive 13-2 record to open the 2004 season.?Head coach Shane Shewmake noted his pitching staff’s 2.39 ERA and his team’s combined batting average of .338 as the main factors to the Comet’s early success.?”We haven’t been giving…

Aidan Skoyles Last week BBC commentator, 95-year-old Alistair Cooke, ended his weekly radio program and I, for one, will surely miss him. Though you may have never heard it, each week nestled in the post 10 p.m. realm of Dallas’ public radio 90.1 KERA, Cooke doled out 10 minutes of heartfelt commentary, sometimes on politics,…

Aidan Skoyles Dean of Students Darrelene Rachavong has been named interim vice president of Student Affairs in the wake of Mary Sias’ acceptance of the presidency at Kentucky State University. “I’m very pleased with the opportunity to serve the university and the students,” Rachavong said. “I feel honored that Dr. Jenifer has the confidence in…

With space in the McDermott Library becoming scarce, library administrators pushed to do away with paper dissertations, but the faculty senate struck a compromise. Director of Libraries Larry Sall said keeping copies of dissertations in digital format rather than paper copies would help maximize the space in the McDermott Library. Archival copies would still be…

For the first time in UTD history, a UTD debate team ranked among the top 15 in its district to qualify for the NCAA tournament of the debate world – the National Debate Tournament (NDT). After years of debating at various levels of competition, the team of sophomore Britt Clark from Deer Park, Texas, and…