The Long March
Instead of heading to the beach or ski slopes during spring break 2010, more than 40 UT Arlington ROTC cadets marched 126 miles from campus to Killeen’s Fort Hood. Their journey commemorated the 50-year anniversary of a similar trek by cadets from Arlington State College (now UT Arlington). Experience the march through the lens of photographer Robert Crosby.
The Lone Star Shape
Texans know a thing or two about reinvention. And, it turns out, so does their state. The area now known as Texas experienced numerous permutations over the centuries before taking today’s familiar shape. The UT Arlington Library’s Special Collections traces that evolution through maps that show the state’s many shapes, names, and geographic oddities in the years before and after its settling.
Golf Course Art
Local golfers saw more than greens and fairways last summer as Lake Arlington Golf Course displayed 13 sculptures by UT Arlington students. Plane Air was the brainchild of sculpture Assistant Professor Darryl Lauster, who approached course officials with the idea of putting an exhibit in an unexpected place. The works were created by students in Lauster’s 3-D Forms and Intermedia classes (intermedia works use less […]
