Tag: Aysha Bader

  • 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…

  • 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…