‘LIFE AND ARTS’ Archives
Gentlemen’s Fight Club
Paul Dang, Mercury Staff What is the Gentlemen’s Fight Club? Eric Alfonso will tell you that it’s an idea, a mindset, as he sits on his leather couch with a circa-1999 Mr. UTD T-shirt on. “You tend to pick up habits with the people you live around,” he says. “Somebody’s slobby, you’re going to become slobby. If people are [...]
‘This Means War’ takes aim at Holiday Romance
John D.McCrary Commentry One would think that after almost 100 years of making films, billions of dollars invested, and the highly competitive and cut throat culture of major motion picture production, Hollywood would have been able to figure out the formula for the perfect date movie a lot sooner than this, but it would seem that they’ve [...]
WWII film fails to do heroes justice
JD MCCRARY , Mercury Staff One of the simple pleasures of seeing a movie in the theaters is when, with popcorn and soda in hand and having answered all the inane trivia, the lights finally dim and that green MPAA screen comes up and warns that whatever comes next is going to do its best to get you psyched up. For some of us, the previews [...]
Paint Wars: New team prepares for NCPA tournament
PAUL DANG, Mercury Staff Justin Pytcher crouched behind the dilapidated house with two fingers hovering over his hypersensitive trigger. His head poked out for a better view only to jerk back as three shots hit the corner of the building. He would have to run to another bunker soon. “G1! G1!” Cameron Petersen roared from his tower, as he [...]
No such thing as normal
JOSEPH MANCUSO Mercury Staff For most people, McDonald’s is a quick in-and-out experience. For senior John Michael Colgin, the fast-food chain was more of a journey than a pit stop. The former fry-cook changed the way he perceived himself and his peers through his time at the restaurant, and now he shares the story of his coming out in the [...]
Beginner dance club introduced
Leah Collum, neuroscience freshman, created the Contemporary Dance Club this semester to provide a comfortable environment for students to learn and explore new dance styles. The club holds practice Sunday nights from 6-8 in the Multipurpose Green Room in the Activity Center, and on Monday nights 9-10 in the Multipurpose Orange Room. Collum along [...]
Brothers Highhorse blends sci-fi, metal
While it can be said that Comets aren’t known for rocking, there’s no doubt that some UTD students still do. Dallas-based “blackened deathcore” band The Brothers Highhorse, the creative effort of UTD student Yaseen Benhalim and UNT students Dan Sharp and Mark Hazelton. Originally hailing from Denton in 2009, the band brings their own [...]
Students take stand for Palestine
Sarah Abdulaqader, psychology senior and Hayat Elashi, Arts & Technology junior, registered Students for Justice in Palestine, or SJP, in spring 2010. SJP is a nationwide initiative founded at the University of California, Berkley in 2001. The UTD group already has more than 50 members coming from diverse backgrounds. “Our main objective is to [...]
Thirty and counting – Dean’s broad interests, vision transform school
The first time Bert Moore stepped onto UTD’s campus the Student Union was being built, SUAAB was founded and 282 students received bachelor’s degrees. Since then, this Behavioral and Brain Sciences, or BBS, dean has helped to found four new centers that are located throughout Dal- las and this past spring he witnessed the graduation of 1,165 [...]
Student looks to be ‘Miss Dallas’
Lauren Young, biology junior, will be the first to represent UTD in several years at the Miss Dallas beauty pageant, scheduled Nov. 19 to 21 at the Eisemann Center in Richardson. Young’s pageant career began in high school after she witnessed many other girls participate in pageants similar to Miss Dallas. “I did a pageant in high school [...]
