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...
University response to ‘No Parking’
The Overture requested an interview with Paul Smith, Parking Enforcement supervisor at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), to discuss issues brought up in ‘No Parking.’ Smith, via email, directed us to email a list of questions he could respond to ‘via the university’s Office of Communication,’ which he said was a requirement for...
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...
Ana Tomie: Queen of the Corset
“It’s pronounced ‘TOE-may,’” Glenn Averoigne, Miss Drag Queen UTD 2011. Geoscience graduate student Allison Pace nibbles biology senior Averoigne’s funny bone. The Overture is proud to have backed the winner of the University of Texas at Dallas’s fifth annual Drag Show and would like to acknowledge the support of everyone who made our dude...
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:...
Drag-mothering for a Cause
The Overture would like to introduce Ana Tomie (né Glenn Averoigne), a queen we are proud to drag-mother for the March 31 University of Texas at Dallas Drag Show. The show is Thursday, March 31st from 8:00-10:00 p.m. in the Galaxy Rooms. It benefits Resource Center Dallas, one of the the primary gay, lesbian, bisexual,...
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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