UTD Slaps Additional Fees on Disabled Parking
If you visited the UTD Parking page recently you noticed an interesting message: “Beginning Sept. 1, 2011, if you utilize handicap parking at UT Dallas, you will need to obtain a UT Dallas handicap decal in addition to your state of Texas placard/license plates. Visit the Bursar’s office (SSB 2.300) with a copy of TxDOT...
Define “Micromanage”, Mr. Perry
If Governor Perry wants to end what he calls government “micromanagement”, first he should get a dictionary and find out what that word really means and then he should retroactively dismiss the abortion bill mentioned above. At least the prohibition of texting while driving would defend the lives of actual living people, instead of taking...
No Parking
Our writers share their no-parking lot. Welcome to UTD: Home of the “No Student Parking Zone” Glenn Averoigne Today was the last straw between me and the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) Parking; but let us begin our tale with the birth of the newest UTD student parking lot by the Conference Center...
Do You Take This Child?
Contributed by Glenn Averoigne Earlier this month, the Texas state senate passed a bill requiring women to hear the heartbeat and development of the embryo described in detail by their medical provider prior to an abortion. I will avoid voicing my opinions on the obvious ethical violations of such measures and proceed to my point:...
Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30
Just as the first of the Baby Boomers began turning 65 in January, a generation-wide financial crisis is preventing many from retiring. With the loss of their home in Dec. 2010, my parents fell neatly into that trend. When my mother and step-father bought their new home in 2002, Operation Iraqi Freedom was still a...
God hates social media
by Glenn Averoigne On the subject of peaceful protest and “Free Speech Zones”, if you have yet to hear of the crazy that is Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church, they are terribly disappointed. The Westboro Baptist Church, more of a clan, really, as all the members are related to Phelps, is the organization...
Free speech comes in zones now?
by Glenn Averoigne I read an article in the Dallas Morning News last Tuesday about the ground breaking ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Library being built on the Southern Methodist University (SMU) campus. This in and of itself hardly sparked my interest, being less than pleased with the eight years under the Bush...
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