Tag: Aashika Kishore
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Rate My Professors: the backbone of Comets’ course selection
Aysha Bader | Mercury Staff One month into the new semester, Comets’ incoming expectations about their classes and professors formed through websites like Rate My Professors have been affirmed, challenged or complicated. Despite occasional discrepancies between the website’s ratings and students’ actual experiences, UTD students overwhelmingly use and trust Rate My Professors, marking its importance…
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Spikes in western racism are affecting everyone, even UTD students
As anti-immigration and anti-Muslim riots erupted in the UK and hate against Black and Arab individuals escalate in the U.S., UTD students speak about their experience with marginalization. ABC reported that after false information about the suspect in a stabbing spree being an “Islamist migrant” spread online and resulted in anti-immigration riots, Nura, a mother…
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Opinion: We need more freaks behind the camera
A razor slices across an eyeball. Thin clouds move through the moon; jellied insides spilling out of a lamb’s eye. When the world needed weird movies most — they disappeared. “Un Chien Andalou” has a striking opening scene that heralds an infinitely more confusing short film. Co-created by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, painter of…
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Editor’s Desk: new semester, new Mercury
Welcome — or welcome back — to campus. For many, this will be your first year at UTD, so you have the great pleasure of learning how to navigate this labyrinthine compound of a university. Our returning students also have the pleasure of charting new paths around campus as parking shifts around because of the…