Category: Campus News
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Local politician enlists UTD students, alums on campaign trail
In this election season, Texas’ district 114 is brewing an interesting matchup with Republican Rep. Jason Villalba facing Jim Burke of the Dallas County Democratic Party in the Texas House of Representatives election. Burke’s platforms share similarities with Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign agenda. The campaign is a student-run initiative that involves students from multiple universities…
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UTD organizations mobilize student voters for election
Correction: In a previous version of this story, Akshitha Padigela’s name was misspelled. The Mercury regrets this error. With the presidential election rapidly approaching student organizations, university faculty and staff are mobilizing as many people as they can to go vote. As a part of the effort, Residential Life held a Comets Rock the Vote…
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Car lovers unite
Over 100 car enthusiasts gathered on the top floor of Parking Structure 3 over the weekend to feature their automobiles and share their mutual interest. On Oct. 1, the Driver’s Club of UTD once again organized Cars and Comets, an event held on the first Saturday of every month. The club officially launched in January…
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JSOM introduces new concentration
This semester, UTD’s JSOM began offering a new concentration within the business administration degree plan known as business economics. “We discovered that economics graduates do quite well in the job market,” said Peter Lewin, the director of the business economics concentration. “We began to see some reports in the Wall Street Journal about how employers…
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Students’ health among priorities for new dean
Amanda Smith, who served as UTD’s interim dean of students for a year, recently assumed the role of dean of students permanently. The Mercury sat down with Smith to discuss her plans and what inspired them. How are you adjusting to your role and has anything changed since your term as interim dean of students?…
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Strike up the band
Editor’s note: This is the first part of a three-part series on full-time students who are working to enter the music industry. It was late one night in a hotel. Eight musicians from New Zealand sat around in a cramped living room. A guitar lay across someone’s lap. After a little tuning and a few…
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Northside occupied
All of the 595 individuals who had planned to reside at Northside, the new apartment complex on Synergy Park Boulevard, have moved into the apartments as of Sept. 15. Sydney Huebner, who works in the Northside office, said the delay was caused by unfinished loft units in block two of the complex. Residents whose units…
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Radio club connects with international station in Russia
Correction: In a previous version of this story, K5UTD was wrongly denoted. The Mercury regrets this error. Elation filled Michael Aldridge as he methodically fumbled with the amateur device. Using only spare parts from other devices and old radios, Aldridge and his club had done it: They made contact with a Russian radio station in…
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Color Guard provides creative outlet
The UTD Color Guard spent the first month of the fall preparing for its first exhibition of the semester at the Day for Kids event in Mesquite. Last fall, a small group of students, led by Yathip Mindy Chokpapone, a neuroscience junior, officially started the Color Guard. Chokpapone, who has been involved with guard since…
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What’s the Buzz
Hungry and tired after a long day of classes, three friends sat on the bus contemplating what to eat. Only then did they learn, a bit too late, about an event with free pizza on campus. International students Sanjay Kurani, Abinav Kalidindi and Chandra Achanta channeled their frustration about the difficulty of finding affordable events…