The Labor Day weekend is one of those perfect long weekends when the gas prices are down and the weight of the semester hasn't started yet. Fall isn't quite here in Dallas and there is still that sweet...

It's your second week back Comets and you've been to the luau and the ethnic breakfasts. The Korean Student Association had its mixer last week, you're going to watch "India's Daughter" tomorrow, and then...

Some of you are excited for a new life, some of you are happy to be back and some of you just want to get done with UTD already. And so begins the first day of school. I'm not a very ritual-oriented person....

It's been a while since we've talked, you and I. Almost all of summer has gone by and the fall term is just around the corner. The problem is, Dallas summers are wonderfully carefree and warm, so news...

Summers and picnics go hand-in-hand, and if you are culturally inclined then you can enjoy the outdoor evenings with Shakespeare in the Park at the Samuell Grand Amphitheatre.The 2015 season runs through...

I've been a student reporter for five years now, yet as I read through Neil Henry's "American Carnival: Journalism under siege in the age of new media" a humbling realization dawned upon me. For someone...

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...

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...

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...

Shared economies are strange creations of a post-recession market. People are letting strangers live in their homes and driving unknown, drunk 21-year-olds in their cars after working 15-hour days, all...

If you haven’t already heard of this, conscious capitalism is a thing. For almost a decade, companies have been throwing around corporate social responsibility as a way to justify retreats and charity...

At its very basic, food is for survival. Then, if your wallet's thick enough, you could argue that food can be a delicacy. The perennial debate on vegetarian versus meat eaters will never end: both...