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UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

Akshay Harshe|Mercury Staff
FSL Assistant Director Julie Murphy came to UTD from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is the first of two new assistant directors to be hired for the new school year.

FSL director hired after ‘rigorous’ process

September 6, 2011

Second director search continues into Recruitment Week Fraternity and Sorority Life is undergoing not one but two changes in leadership following the departures of previous FSL assistant directors Zach...

Akshay Harshe|Mercury Staff
Bradley Griffith, Emerging Media and Communications graduade student, created Undetweetable, a website dedicated to collecting and exposing deleted tweets.

Tweets #thingsthatlastforever

September 6, 2011

Site revives social media postings The perception of the Internet as some innocuous pastime where all transgressions are forgiven with a click of a Delete button prompted Bradley Griffith, an Emerging...

Akshay Harshe|Mercury Staff
Dean James Marquart oversees the School of Economics, Political & Policy Sciences. Prior to coming to UTD, he worked as a correctional officer in Texas for two years.

Faces of change: from inmates to students

August 22, 2011

Delivering flowers, supervising prisoners, teaching criminology and now serving as dean to one of UTD’s academic programs — this man has done it all. James Marquart, dean of School of Economics, Political...

Akshay Harshe|Mercury Staff
Indian students arrive at the DFW International Airport on Aug. 14. Many students coming from overseas must wait until the end of August to move into their apartments. Meanwhile, a record total of 700 international students have requested short-term accommodations.

Overcrowded housing: Temp housing requests at all-time high

August 22, 2011

Two major international student organizations are struggling to handle a 33 percent increase in temporary housing requests from new students this fall, resulting in a dearth of short-term accommodation...

Akshay Harshe| Mercury Staff

Student enrollment continues to climb

August 22, 2011

UTD is poised to break yet another student enrollment record. There will be about 18,400 students enrolled at UTD in fall 2011, according to projections by the Office of Strategic Planning and Analysis,...

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