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Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

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Texas Exes VP of Marketing Jamie Puryear (left), Membership and Alumni Records Manager Matt Pollock (right) pictured outside the Alumni Center on 3-22-24. The Texas Exes reaches 100,000 members with Bevo as the 100,000th member.

Texas Exes reaches 100,000 life members

Christian DeBrady, General News Reporter April 23, 2024

Over 100 years after the first Longhorn permanently joined Texas Exes, the organization is celebrating 100,000 life members, according to the Texas Exes website.  Life membership is the University...

City of Austin launches left-turn calming pilot program

City of Austin launches left-turn calming pilot program

Abby Breyfogle, General News Reporter April 23, 2024

The City of Austin is set to finish the installation of its left-turning safety program in the next month.  The left-turn calming pilot program implements treatments to improve pedestrian safety at...

Austin poet advocates for adult poet laureate program

Austin poet advocates for adult poet laureate program

Ren Leija, Senior News Reporter April 23, 2024

When Austinite KB Brookins discovered every other major city in Texas had an adult poet laureate program, they hoped to create one. “Poet laureates (are) essentially stewards of poetry in their local...

Pedestrians walk past the recently shut down Guadalupe Street Foxtrot Market on April 23, 2024.

Foxtrot closes all four Austin locations

Mason Rouser, News Desk Editor April 23, 2024

Foxtrot Market announced in a press release on Tuesday that all of its store locations, including the one recently opened on Guadalupe Street, are closed.  Foxtrot, which consists of a coffee shop...

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Semester of SB 17: Gender and Sexuality Collective provides safe space for LGBTQ+ students amid shutdowns, changes

Isabella Zeff, Associate Projects Editor April 23, 2024

Editor’s Note: The implementation of Senate Bill 17 meant the loss of diversity, equity and inclusion offices, positions and resources throughout campus. The Texan’s projects department reached out...

Senior Katherine Ospina-Prieto stands for a portrait inside the UT Tower on Monday. She is majoring in race, indigeneity and migration, sociology and international relations.

Semester of SB 17: Students continue decades-long cultural graduation tradition

Trisha Dasgupta, General Projects Reporter April 23, 2024

Editor’s Note: The implementation of Senate Bill 17 meant the loss of diversity, equity and inclusion offices, positions and resources throughout campus. The Texan’s projects department reached out...

Ceasar Avila poses for a portrait inside the Center for Community Engagement in Austin, Texas on Friday. With the closure of the Division of Campus and Community Engagement, the center will need to be repurposed.

Semester of SB 17: Student sees uncertain future of ‘transformative’ program

Ali Juell, Projects Editor April 23, 2024

Editor’s Note: The implementation of Senate Bill 17 meant the loss of diversity, equity and inclusion offices, positions and resources throughout campus. The Texan’s projects department reached out...

Graduate student Megan Cockett stands for a portrait in front of the Make It Your Texas sign on the PCL on April 21, 2024. The recent university changes due to SB-17 shut down iPride, an organization Cockett started.

Semester of SB 17: Future librarian manages end of graduate student organization

Ali Juell, Projects Editor April 22, 2024

Editor’s Note: The implementation of Senate Bill 17 meant the loss of diversity, equity and inclusion offices, positions and resources throughout campus. The Texan’s projects department reached out...

Students wait in line at the Union Coffee House on April 3, 2024.

On-campus Starbucks lose revenue after 6 months of boycotts

Pili Saravia, Senior Campus Reporter April 22, 2024

A movement to boycott Starbucks surged in October when talk of the company’s support for Israel began circulating online and on campus. By February, sales in every campus shop with Starbucks licensing...

Senior public relations major Simi Sodipe stands outside the William C. Powers Student Activity Center on Monday.

Semester of SB 17: Student leader navigates loss of community spaces

Meredith Roberts, General Projects Reporter April 22, 2024

Editor’s Note: The implementation of Senate Bill 17 meant the loss of diversity, equity and inclusion offices, positions and resources throughout campus. The Texan’s projects department reached out...

Woffies coffee shop in the Jesse H. Jones Communication Center is pictured on Sunday.

Woffie’s, Cappy’s Cafes to shutdown early May

Laura Rivera, General News Reporter April 22, 2024

Cappy’s and Woffie’s cafes, two of O’s Campus Cafe and Catering stores on campus, will close operations within the Moody College of Communication on May 2.  Joe Sauta, owner of O’s Campus Cafe,...

Jordyn Butler, an African and African Diaspora Studies sophomore, works at the former Multicultural Engagement Center on February 8. Butler served as the public relations chair of Afrikan American Affairs, a former MEC agency, last semester.

‘I still am grieving’: Staff move forward following University layoffs

Naina Srivastava and Emily DeMotte April 22, 2024

On the morning of April 2, an anonymous Division of Campus and Community Engagement staff member and several colleagues joined a Zoom meeting with University human resources representatives. The staff...

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