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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

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SG adopts LGBT/GSRM resolution

April 30, 2015

Student Government unanimously passed a resolution opposing efforts by the Texas legislature to curb the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and gender, sexual and romantic minorities...

Mercury Morning News

April 28, 2015

Connie Cheng|Photo Editor
Amartya Sen, recipient of the 1998 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, visited campus April 25 to speak about his work.

Nobel laureate in economics discusses gender

April 27, 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cerVxzm5UOM Gender inequality takes on many faces, Nobel laureate Amartya Sen said. It can be seen the moment cultural perceptions push a parent to desire a baby boy instead...

Arun Prasath | Staff

List of SACS complaints

April 27, 2015

SACS placed UTD under review for eight out of 93 principles over the course of two years. Of these, some were institutional level and others were specifically for the ATEC program. SACS notified UTD of...

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MIGUEL PEREZ & ARUN PRASATH | MERCURY STAFF

Noncompliant?

April 27, 2015

ATEC revising doctoral program after complaint, third party investigation  The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools reviewed, starting in 2013, UTD and the Arts and Technology program after accusations...

Andrew Gallegos| Assistant Photo Editor
The site of the Palisades project. Mayor Maczka took a job with the project's developer in April.

Richardson mayor focus of ethics investigation

April 27, 2015

City determining if code was violated in development project Richardson city council is being investigated for a potential ethics violation after Mayor Laura Maczka resigned from her position and took...

Malarial maladies

Malarial maladies

April 26, 2015

There is a strange fever that is widespread in tropical countries around this time of the year. It comes with the chills every evening and a high temperature, takes away the desire to eat and is accompanied...

Find me a home

Find me a home

April 19, 2015

If you haven’t kept up with world news, and most of us haven’t because the semester’s winding up and all hell is breaking loose, then you don’t know about the 5,000 immigrants who’re living in...

Stall or spoil?

Stall or spoil?

April 13, 2015

After several conferences and billions of dollars spent on pollution and other problems, we are in a worse environmental state than we were 25 years ago. No doubt, a lot of it is just big boys with their...

Yang Xi|Staff
A Sikh student ties a traditional turban at Tie a Turban Day on April 2 on The Plinth. The event was an initiative by the Sikh Student Association to inform students of their faith.

A SHOW OF FAITH

April 13, 2015

Students navigate external, internal ways of expressing their faith Editor’s note: Students interviewed for this article constitute a random cross-section of religions and is in no means complete in...

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Anwesha Bhattacharjee