Watch, Read, Listen
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‘Take me out to the ballgame’
Standing room only ticket: $40. Dr. Pepper in a souvenir cup: $4.50 Discovering America’s pastime (and finding out that it’s actually not baseball): priceless. Now before I have you baseball purists calling for my head…
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Games’ lack of ads a 10
The Olympics are over now. The athletes are home, glowing from their Olympic experience – or perhaps glittering gold. In corporate America, the sponsor companies like Home Depot, Visa and Monster.com (which supplies “official online…
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UTD Archers take aim in D.C.
Fifteen students stumble nervously into the nation’s capital, each one, at least symbolically, wearing the UT System bumper sticker for others to see. Of the 15, five come from UTD, the rest from UT Austin.…
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Still stacking library shelves
Although more and more publications are finding their way onto computer screens, it’s nice to see the McDermott Library celebrating the acquisition of its one-millionth volume. True, “Flora Londinenis” will be digitized and made available…
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Mexico Studies collaboration to promote scholarships
As a sign of goodwill between two international educational institutions, UTD officials from the Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies and the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education in Mexico (ITESM-Monterrey) have signed collaboration agreements promoting…
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Students say new facility worth noise, dust
Students lifting weights and shooting three-pointers aren’t the only activities occuring these days at the UTD Activity Center. Outside, construction has begun on the $3 million renovation and expansion project. “Completion is right on schedule…
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‘Exorcist’ prequel scary, possessed by its own demons
Were it a stand-alone feature, Renny Harlin’s “Exorcist: the Beginning” would merely be a sub-par campy horror movie. However, in the shadow of it’s lineage, the film falls flat on its face – a poor…
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Cartoon Corner
<strong>UTD medals at the Olympics…</strong> <strong>McDermott Library’s Millionth Book…</strong> <strong>Girltrouble</strong> by Michelle Gruben…
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Sports Briefs 09/07/04
<strong>Power Dancers to hold tryouts Sept. 14</strong> The UTD Power Dancers have announced the dates for their audition of new members for the upcoming year. The first audition information session will be at 8:30 p.m.,…
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Women seek three-peat as division champs
With a third straight division championship in its crosshairs, the UTD women’s soccer team has high expectations as it opens the 2004 season with a home match Sept. 1. Head Coach John Antonisse has built…