THE UTD MERCURY

Category: Opinion

  • Creativity is for STEM students too

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    With UTD’s many efforts to expand the arts on campus, now is the perfect time for STEM-oriented students to take on a creative project. At UTD, over 60% of the student body — more than 19,000 students — belongs to STEM schools. Our school culture does not encourage students to participate in creative endeavors, especially…

  • UTD needs better social life

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    Comets often complain that UTD is largely a commuter school and lacks a social life compared to other Texas universities. However, both the administration and students are to blame for the antisocial culture. According to US News, 78% of UTD students live off campus. While not living in the dorms has its benefits, developing friendships…

  • Free resources for students

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    Students should be more aware of free campus resources to help with — and potentially prevent — midterm burnout. By the time you’re reading this, it’s already week seven or eight of the spring semester. We may be halfway done, but before we get to that sweet spring break vacation, we need to make it…

  • More students need to learn CPR and AED

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    Not enough students are actively learning basic life support, or BLS, which is easy to learn and has immense positive potential. People may require resuscitation when they go unconscious due to a variety of health issues. Being away from home, college students are even more prone to forgetting medications, taking the wrong dosage or even…

  • Dear Boomers: please stop writing Gen Z characters

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    As newer TV shows like “Euphoria” and “Never Have I Ever” air on popular streaming platforms, young people are constantly seeing how characters our age are portrayed inaccurately, and, frankly, offensively. HBO Max is well known for having shows like “Euphoria,” “Pretty Little Liars” and “Gossip Girl” depict teenagers as using vulgar language at least…

  • We are Asian Americans. We are not a foreign threat. We are not the enemy.

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    One out of five Asian Americans will experience a hate-related incident, and with rising tensions between China and the United States, we will not be silenced when the next round of Asian scapegoating comes for us. The publication “Stop AAPI Hate”reported last year that hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders — or AAPI…

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  • ‘MILF Manor’ — dystopia or reality?

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    Disturbing as it is, TLC’s “MILF Manor” should surprise no one, as it follows logically from the problematic themes that viewers have long supported by watching reality shows. “MILF Manor” is as bizarre as it sounds: it is a reality series where older women visit a resort in Mexico under the premise of dating younger…

  • Microaesthetics dangerous for young adults, not liberating

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    The trendy micro aesthetic lifestyles cluttering the internet might seem appealing and harmless, but they are actually obstacles to true individualism. We live in a society where it seems like a necessity to identify with a categorical lifestyle – an aesthetic. Most aesthetics took root in social media during the early 2010’s and began with…

  • Soft launches the opposite of romantic

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    Posting a picture of your partner’s side profile on your Instagram isn’t a “soft launch,” you’re just media obsessed.   Love is in the air! Valentine’s Day and its capitalistic hold on the American public has once again invaded aisles in the form of chocolate boxes and teddy bears at our local grocery stores. It has…