THE UTD MERCURY

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  • Auxiliary Services holds bike sale

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    Auxiliary Services sells items to the public three times year: a furniture sale in September and January, as well as a bike sale, which was organized for the first time ever this year on Nov. 19 at the surplus warehouse. The event was open to students, faculty and staff. “It is labor-intensive for us to…

  • Response to immigrant reform tepid

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    Immigrant rights groups believe President’s executive order weak, might not last President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform announced on Nov. 20 has received mixed reactions from members of the Hispanic community. His reforms are not historic or very different from what many presidents of either party have passed before him, said Cristina Garcia, deputy…

  • Still DREAMing

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    UTD siblings reflect on living as undocumented immigrants in United States It was Election Day in 2008 and Abigail Cortes and her mom were watching the election results. Both were upset that Cortes’ brother, Elio Zapote, had wanted to visit a friend at UTD that night instead of watching the results with them. Sometime that…

  • Veterans’ wall visits campus

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    Public pays tribute to Vietnam vets at traveling memorial replica, mobile center A half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. was on display from Nov. 19-22 in front of the McDermott Library. The 250-foot exhibit, called The Wall That Heals, includes both the wall inscribed with more than 58,000 names and a…

  • Mercury Morning News 12/01

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  • Guns on campus

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  • Mercury Morning News 11/17

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  • Men’s soccer falls in NCAA second round

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    For the first time in program history, the men’s soccer team hosted the NCAA tournament from Nov. 15-16. Even though it hosted, the team wouldn’t have entered into the tournament if it were not for some very beneficial circumstances. After losing in the ASC tournament final to Hardin-Simmons on Nov. 9, it looked like the…

  • Mayor: Sharing info key to handling Ebola outbreak

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    Transparency in communication was crucial to confronting the public fear after the first Ebola case in Dallas caught the city’s health officials and providers by surprise, said several renowned panelists at The Dallas Morning News forum on Nov. 5 at UTD. The panel discussion titled “Vital Lessons: How Dallas Confronted the Ebola Challenge” brought together…

  • UTD PD Blotter

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    Nov. 4 • An officer investigated a report of graffiti on the south side of the Activity Center around 2 p.m. Nov. 5 • A student was arrested for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia on Waterview Parkway around midnight. • An unaffiliated man was issued a criminal trespass warning after being terminated from Chartwells.…