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The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

Letter to the Editor: In response to the editor’s disclaimer on Aug. 19 LTTE

September 3, 2024

Disclaimer: Mercury policy prohibits censorship as a requirement for publication. Editors provide suggestions on opinion editorials and letters to the editor, which the author can choose to implement....

Jade Steinberg | Courtesy

Letter to the Editor: Campus antisemitism

August 19, 2024

Disclaimer: The information presented within this letter to the editor is the opinion of the author and should not be treated as news. On June 12, a UN commission found Israel guilty of “crimes against...

Fatimah Azeem

Letter to the Editor: State-sanctioned violence, a chilling message courtesy of UTD

July 15, 2024

To the current Editorial Board and readers of The Mercury,  One thing is clear to me after reading The Mercury’s recent coverage of the Gaza Solidarity encampment: administrators’ horrifying...

Jade Steinberg | Courtesy

Letter to the Editor

April 29, 2024

Dear UT Dallas Mercury, Students, Staff and Administration,  In a recent issue of The Mercury, an article addressed the recent SG resolution on a permanent cease-fire. A quote in this article...

Letter to the Editor: On-Campus Housing is Purpose-built

February 9, 2020

In the Jan. 27 issue of The Mercury, Ellis Blake Hidalgo wrote an article about apartment construction at Northside, the goal of which is to provide more housing near campus. Brent Miller from real estate...

How NSM Shaped UTD History

September 1, 2019

I was pleased to read the story “50 years of UTD” in the Aug. 19 edition of The Mercury.  I am proud to have been a faculty member for three-fourths of the time that UTD has existed and to have...

Previous Op-Ed Uses Defamation to Belittle Unborn Victims of Abortion

September 1, 2019

Two weeks ago, my campus organization was publicly accused of hypocrisy, dishonesty, and borderline racism. In The Mercury’s Aug. 19 opinion piece, Ruqiya Barreh made the following argument: Although...

Letter to the Editor: Dining Services values community voices

April 15, 2019

A series of articles has been published by The Mercury this year about the university’s food service contractor, Chartwells. We value this input, and we have consistently encouraged dialogue with students...

Letter to the Editor: How to help ATEC grads improve job prospects

March 10, 2019

It's easy to help make ATEC a better experience for its undergraduate students: Just require a minor (18 credit hours) in the STEM field of their choice. The interests and abilities that UTD ATEC students...

Letter to the Editor: Recent op-ed inconsistent with position on open discourse

February 25, 2019

I organized and supervised the Steven Crowder event on Jan. 22 and thought it went quite well. Outside of a couple of protestors, I think a lot of students would agree with me. One such protestor was...

Letter to the Editor: Previous op-ed supporting border wall misconstrues facts

February 11, 2019

In the Jan. 28 issue of The Mercury, an op-ed by Alexander Christie — entitled “Shutdown at the D.C. Corral” — asserted that the recent partial government closure was necessary to reexamine the...

UTD Dining Hall West staff  and Chartwells Higher Education credit their national recognition to the feedback they recieve from their patrons. Photo courtesy of Dining Hall West Staff.

Letter To the Editor: UTD Dining Services misrepresented in previous issue of The Mercury

February 20, 2017

The Mercury’s reporter Mithra Kaushik reached out to us for a news story and requested to meet with UT Dallas Dining Services staff to conduct a “behind the scenes type of interview, finding out where...

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