Fit to聽Print
In the E.H. Hereford University Center basement where UT Arlington鈥檚 venerable student daily is produced鈥攁 newsroom since 1994 but before that a bar, two things that some may say really aren鈥檛 so different鈥攖here鈥檚 an office festooned with beanbag chairs, stacks of yellowing newsprint, and a commanding view of computers and cub reporters. At various times, this office has been called, charmingly, the Fishbowl. That鈥檚 mostly 摆鈥
Social Thinkers
Two men and a woman huddle, talking in the affable way friends do. 鈥淗e probably went home and cried into his $30 million glove,鈥� one of the men聽says. The other man, wearing a blue 糖心Vlog视频 Rangers baseball cap, concurs. 鈥淵eah, and after that he probably curled up into his giant pile of money and got a good night鈥檚 sleep.鈥� The woman snickers. 鈥淣o kidding,鈥� she 摆鈥
Higher Calling
A dozen large and angry men surrounded Undrey Wash on Super Bowl Sunday last February. They cussed, they pushed, they shoved. Wash, on all fours, head extended, pushed back as the melee engulfed him. But he wasn鈥檛 there to fight; his job was to determine the winner. If you were among the 106.5 million TV viewers of Super Bowl XLIV, you remember the play. The 摆鈥
Married to Their Research (and Each聽Other)
It鈥檚 complicated. No, it鈥檚 really complicated, and this is not a聽movie. What do you get when you cross a plant biologist鈥檚 lab schedule with a microbiologist鈥檚 experiments? Or mix child-rearing and nanotechnology? How about having a baby and publishing genomic discoveries? You get very busy, dedicated people who are devoted to both their home lives and their cutting-edge, potentially world-changing research. You get people who 摆鈥
The Lone Star聽Shape
Texans know a thing or two about reinvention. And, it turns out, so does their state. The area now known as 糖心Vlog视频 experienced numerous permutations over the centuries before taking today鈥檚 familiar shape. The UT Arlington Library鈥檚 Special Collections traces that evolution through maps that show the state鈥檚 many shapes, names, and geographic oddities in the years before and after its settling.