Under the cover of a holiday weekend, UTD administrators erased the progress pride mural from the second floor of the Student Services Addition.
What was once a visible statement of pride and intersectionality...
I was pretty naive when I graduated high school. As a pre-med student, I thought I knew exactly what I had to do. Get good grades, join organizations, get clinical experience and move through everything...
At a university with more than 400 registered student organizations, finding the right club can come with an almost unbearable amount of pressure.
Before I stepped on campus, I was already trying to resume-max....
Throughout my first semester on campus, I was convinced that UTD was pretty ugly.
It is just a square mile of concrete, I thought, centered around a mist fountain that never turns on. Then, I returned...
What a year we’ve had.
When I stepped onto campus in late August, The Mercury only had two staff members and no newsroom to speak of. At the same time, I was moving to Texas for the first...
Looking ahead
As Student Media says goodbye to graduating leaders, a new group of editors and managers are stepping into their roles to continue building on their work.
When I began as editor in chief of The Mercury, I was told that administration would be my biggest adversary. We entered the year expecting attempts to silence us. What I didn’t expect, however, was...
Humans have always had a special relationship with the moon. Starting way back in 1,800 BCE with the ancient Mesopotamians, almost all cultures that have walked this planet have found the sun, the moon...
Over 3,000 people in Iran alone have been killed, and the official response from the U.S. government is SpongeBob edits.
The Trump administration’s responses to an active war have been...
Generative artificial intelligence was posed as a harbinger of the future, a tool of titanic proportions.
Supporters predicted unheralded productivity that could bring about a new human age.
Nowadays,...
Student political organizations on the UTD campus, like Turning Point USA and the Revolutionary Communists of America, haven’t been doing their jobs very well. While the role of any campus organization...
“All eyes on Rafah.”
Millions shared it. Celebrities reposted it. Students filled their Instagram stories with it. We treated it like a promise, but somewhere between the shares and scrolling, Palestine...
