Elizabeth Hlavinka

“My senior year, I was so worried about tomorrow and not really where I would be in a year. It was really exciting getting onto campus.”

Sound On Sound attendees reveal individuality and friendship through their tattoos.

Day Two of Sound On Sound Festival kicked off to a muddy start after a round of heavy morning showers early Saturday, but that didn’t stop festivalgoers clad in rain boots and jackets from lining up early.

"In a way, we knew we were doing something different, but we were also just making music that we wanted to hear."

When asked about his tattoos, Jeremie Saunders tells people they don’t want to know the meaning behind them — usually.

Another successful ACL weekend has come and gone.

The first day of ACL Weekend 2 lives up to expectations. 

Daily Texan staff discusses favorite ACL acts and previous experiences. 

They met in the flat planes of Botswana, sleeping in tents, cooking over a fire pit and living out of their suitcases.

The sound of 56 bells has rang through campus daily from the top of the Tower. For the past 64 years, Tom Anderson was the man behind the music

Usually, the back-and-forth “Texas! Fight!” chant can be heard echoing the stadium during a football game. But this weekend, it will ring across Congress Avenue.

The Daily Texan dug in its archives for three stories from three previous decades, all published on the first day of the fall semester.

The Daily Texan compiled five interesting classes to spice up your schedule.  

Texas Rock Climbing competes in six competitions per year, as well as regional and national championships.

In this compilation of stories, the Life & Arts department explores the joys and challenges that come with love.

When the UT women’s basketball team played Baylor, they drew enough fans to open the top level of the stadium for the first time at a women’s basketball game. But every game this season, a group of their most dedicated supporters could be found front and center — fans who call themselves the Men in Black.

Over the past 15 years, Michelle Rivera helps hundreds of students passing through UT’s Counseling and Mental Health Center keep their appointments, prescriptions and paperwork straight — honing her skills as an organizational queen.

Behind campus’s closed doors rest the Gutenberg Bible, artifacts from space and millions of dollars of research materials. Each of these doors has its own unique lock — and Lee Hart holds their keys. 

When Charles Ball reflects on the hundreds of pianos he’s come across in the past 50 years, he sees a nine-foot Steinway UT acquired in 1938.

The UT Tower, the Pennybacker Bridge and Lady Bird Lake each have been photographed thousands of times and from nearly every angle.

After earning her studio art degree, UT alumna Xochi Solis didn’t immediately find her place in the art world.

When most people walk into a building on campus, they notice the decorations on the walls or the door they walk through.

Refugees from all over the world flee their home countries, seeking reprieve in the United States.

80,000 people in Jordan’s Zaatari Refugee Camp sleep in temporary trailers, surrounded by crime, gangs and sexual violence.

When international relations senior Gwam Puerta notices a dip in the party’s energy, he wets his hair, lathers his beard in Vaseline and sets a torch on fire — ready to bring the crowd to life.

UT alumna Jessica Honegger has seen some of the poorest countries in the world, and after witnessing the effect of poverty on families, she found the solution was something present in everyone — a powerful, entrepreneurial spirit.

UT clinical professor Elissa Steglich has seen the despair and fear that resides in Texas detention centers firsthand.

Within a collective 50 years, father and son Buster and Jack Robinson avoided disastrous floods, disposed of an abandoned truckful of snakes and used the incessant train horn of the Zilker Zephyr as their morning alarm clock each day.

Imagine a thin string attached to the ceiling. It enters the top of your scalp, runs taut through your body and connects the balls of your feet to the ground. Focus on your breath.    

Resting on a dusty shelf in the dark recesses of a UT laboratory lie jars of preserved brains, canned frogs and animal skulls. To most, encountering the collection would be disturbing or grotesque, but for UT alumna and art curator Andree Bober, finding these objects is like striking gold.

Editor's Note: This week, the Life&Arts department will cover prevalent issues on campus — today's package addresses diversity of campus.

Editor's Note: This week, the Life&Arts department will cover prevalent issues on campus — today's package addresses students' mental health.

Storytellers will share their stories Wednesday night at the Spider House Ballroom during (un)Spoken, a new series from the producers of BedPost Confessions — an Austin-based group that hosts live shows aimed to increase dialogues around sex.

For the past decade, UT alumnus Brian Gaar has been a news reporter by day and a “Twitter-famous” stand-up comedian by night.

After realizing a company dedicated to providing socks to the homeless didn’t exist, Tim and UT alumna Agata Scott decided to create their own.

For public relations freshman Lainey Gonzales, the secret to a successful mayoral campaign wasn’t shaking hands and kissing babies — it was dressing up as a Teletubby and handing out flowers.

UT researchers discovered new data indicating ancient Mayan infrastructure initiated human-inflicted change on the environment, according to a UT study.