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REVIEW: ‘Wild Robot’ Shows Humans How to be Civilized

November 23, 2024 Ashley Worley

By ASHLEY WORLEY/Staff Writer The current culture, oversaturated with angry Facebook posts and combative internet rants, blares bad news from all sides. Political conflict, violence, division – plus dozens of gritty films and TV shows [Read More…]

Features

Tyler Filmmaker Finds Inspiration Close to Home

November 13, 2024 Ashley Worley

By ASHLEY WORLEY/Staff Writer In 2015, Grayson Lackey stepped into the lobby of the historic Liberty Hall. It was filled with faces he didn’t recognize. He was 16, homeschooled, raised on an East Texas cattle [Read More…]

Campus News

PHOTO ESSAY: The Engineering Students Compete at the Ratliff Relays

October 28, 2024 Ashley Worley

By ASHLEY WORLEY/ Contributor Every year students in the College of Engineering take part in the Ratliff Relays, a series of competitions on and near Harvey Lake. It is an opportunity for student to put [Read More…]

City/State

PHOTO GALLERY: Local Zoo Ensures a Legacy of Joy

October 7, 2024 Ashley Worley

By ASHLEY WORLEY/Staff Writer  Under a wooden, thatched-roof platform overlooking the edge of a yellow field, people mill about watching, waiting. A mother holds her son, a boy of about 5 years of age in [Read More…]

City/State

In Full Bloom: Exploring the Deep Roots and History of Flowers by Lou Ann

February 29, 2024 Ashley Worley

By ASHLEY WORLEY/Staff Contributor and ISABELLA PIERCE/Contributor When she was 15 years old, Lou Ann Green’s high school teacher told her to pick a different career.  Lou Ann’s dream of becoming a florist, she’d said, would [Read More…]

Culture

Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience

February 19, 2024 Ashley Worley

Story and Photos by ASHLEY WORLEY/Staff Contributor Pixies and Nifflers might not be the average wildlife of a DFW park, but the inhabitants of Universal Studios’ Wizarding World, it seems, can make an appearance just [Read More…]

News

Fall Ratliff Relays a “significant impact on student life”

October 26, 2023 Ashley Worley

By ASHLEY WORLEY/Staff Writer On Saturday, Oct. 21, the College of Engineering hosted its annual Delek US Ratliff Relays, featuring a lineup of competitions that included cardboard canoe races on Harvey Lake. Over 400 engineering students [Read More…]

Campus News

The Clothesline Project: Gut-Wrenching Messages Are Voices of Abuse Victims

October 12, 2023 Ashley Worley

By ASHLEY WORLEY/Staff Writer  EDITOR’S NOTE: October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.  Rows of T-shirts hung from clotheslines: a rainbow of colors. Each one is a story captured in paint, expressing the inexpressible. Some spoke [Read More…]

Campus News

Honors College Taking Annual Trip to Shakespeare in the Park

September 28, 2023 Ashley Worley

By ASHLEY WORLEY/ Staff Writer UT Tyler’s Honors College will take a group of 40 Honors students and staff to Dallas this Friday, Sept. 29, to see “King Lear”for their annual Shakespeare in the Park event. [Read More…]

Culture

Tyler Film Festival Award Night

September 13, 2023 Ashley Worley

By ASHLEY WORLEY/Staff Writer The Tyler Film Festival finished Saturday night, Sept. 9, after disbursing over $2,000 in awards.  Out of the 24 short film selections, the following four received awards. Written in Ink, by Cordelaine [Read More…]

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