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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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Letter to the Editor

April 29, 2024

Dear UT Dallas Mercury, Students, Staff and Administration,  In a recent issue of The Mercury, an article addressed the recent SG resolution on a permanent cease-fire. A quote in this article...

Letter to the Editor: On-Campus Housing is Purpose-built

February 9, 2020

In the Jan. 27 issue of The Mercury, Ellis Blake Hidalgo wrote an article about apartment construction at Northside, the goal of which is to provide more housing near campus. Brent Miller from real estate...

How NSM Shaped UTD History

September 1, 2019

I was pleased to read the story “50 years of UTD” in the Aug. 19 edition of The Mercury.  I am proud to have been a faculty member for three-fourths of the time that UTD has existed and to have...

Previous Op-Ed Uses Defamation to Belittle Unborn Victims of Abortion

September 1, 2019

Two weeks ago, my campus organization was publicly accused of hypocrisy, dishonesty, and borderline racism. In The Mercury’s Aug. 19 opinion piece, Ruqiya Barreh made the following argument: Although...

Letter to the Editor: Dining Services values community voices

April 15, 2019

A series of articles has been published by The Mercury this year about the university’s food service contractor, Chartwells. We value this input, and we have consistently encouraged dialogue with students...

Letter to the Editor: How to help ATEC grads improve job prospects

March 10, 2019

It's easy to help make ATEC a better experience for its undergraduate students: Just require a minor (18 credit hours) in the STEM field of their choice. The interests and abilities that UTD ATEC students...

Letter to the Editor: Recent op-ed inconsistent with position on open discourse

February 25, 2019

I organized and supervised the Steven Crowder event on Jan. 22 and thought it went quite well. Outside of a couple of protestors, I think a lot of students would agree with me. One such protestor was...

Letter to the Editor: Previous op-ed supporting border wall misconstrues facts

February 11, 2019

In the Jan. 28 issue of The Mercury, an op-ed by Alexander Christie — entitled “Shutdown at the D.C. Corral” — asserted that the recent partial government closure was necessary to reexamine the...

UTD Dining Hall West staff  and Chartwells Higher Education credit their national recognition to the feedback they recieve from their patrons. Photo courtesy of Dining Hall West Staff.

Letter To the Editor: UTD Dining Services misrepresented in previous issue of The Mercury

February 20, 2017

The Mercury’s reporter Mithra Kaushik reached out to us for a news story and requested to meet with UT Dallas Dining Services staff to conduct a “behind the scenes type of interview, finding out where...

THE LONG FIGHT

April 13, 2015

State legislation threatens to inhibit the rights of LGBT citizens within the state, activists must not hinder in their fight for equality It’s hard to deny that the past year has been a whirlwind one...

Israeli perspective absent in Gaza article

September 8, 2014

I am writing in response to the article printed in the Aug. 4 edition of The Mercury entitled “Trapped in Gaza.” It put to print statistics that are at best, contested, and at worst, false. It also...

CLARISSA POLLACK

Green campus in reach, if only sprinklers reached green grass

November 18, 2013

CLARISSA POLLACK Art and performance senior | 0 comments The rainy weather of late has helped our area out of drought. Fields are greener than they’ve ever been since I started at UTD, and it’s...

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