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UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

UTD's student-run newspaper since 1980

The UTD Mercury

Rose Minjarez, a psychology and child development junior, prepared for Friday’s protest, which will take place on the Plinth. Photo by Megan Zerez | Mercury Staff.

Students to protest university’s handling of Anderson case

December 13, 2018

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include additional information about the protest planned for Dec. 14. UTD President Richard Benson announced Thursday afternoon that Jacob Walter Anderson,...

Michael Lockwood, a mathematics freshman, is a member of Comets for the Preborn and helped organize the event. Photo by Anna Phengsakmueang | Mercury Staff.

Students stage anti-abortion protest

October 30, 2018

Editor's Note: This article has been updated to include additional information from Comets for the Preborn and to correct the reported day the event was held. It was held Tuesday afternoon, not Monday. An...

Graphic by EJ Chong | Mercury Staff.

Critics need greater understanding of players’ protests

October 2, 2017

There is an old saying, overused to the point of cliché. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It’s supposed to convey embarrassment, shame over missing a pattern that is present...

Dallas Rally

Dallas Rally

August 24, 2017

After the unrest in Virginia in August, UTD students attended a protest against white supremacy at Dallas City Hall. On Saturday, Aug. 12, in a counterprotest to a “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville,...

Participants stood with signs and flags at the protest against President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 9. The rally marched through uptown and dowtown Dallas. Photo by Esteban Bustillos | Mercury Staff.

Students protest election results at downtown rally

November 15, 2016

As hundreds marched through the streets of uptown and downtown Dallas on Nov. 9 protesting the election of Donald Trump, electrical engineering senior Adam Richards directed choice words at the president-elect. “I...

People gathered at Energy Transfer Partners on Sept. 2 to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Photo by Jennifer Chi | Mercury Staff.

Students protest oil pipeline

September 6, 2016

The UTD College Democrats were among the allies of the American Indian Movement of Central Texas, which descended upon the headquarters of Energy Transfer Partners in Dallas on Friday to peacefully protest...

Flags on campus were lowered to half-staff on July 8 as faculty, staff and students mourned the police officers who lost their lives during the shooting in downtown Dallas on July 7. Photo by Andrew Gallegos | Photo Editor.

UTD alumna, students unharmed in Dallas shooting

July 8, 2016

Two UTD students and an alumna have returned home safely after being caught in the middle of last night’s gunfire ambush in downtown Dallas that took the lives of five police officers. A Black Lives...

Protestors shut down downtown Dallas in support of Sandra Bland

Protestors shut down downtown Dallas in support of Sandra Bland

July 27, 2015

Chants and calls to action echoed amidst the skyscrapers of downtown Dallas as hundreds of marchers demonstrated on July 27 to protest the death of Sandra Bland. Her arrest and subsequent death in Prairie...

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