Editor’s note — A 30 column is a chance for departing permanent staff to say farewell and reflect on their time spent in the Texan’s basement office. The term comes from the old typesetting...
There really are no constants in college. Let’s face it — in the course of four years, everything about you changes. You will dress and look differently. You will most certainly forge...
Once, I almost quit the Texan.
I arrived at the 2010 Republican election night watch party at an exotic game ranch in South Austin as a pack mule, lugging a DV camera, tripod and reporter’s...
The new Daily Texan site went live with a text saying it was time to flip the switch. After a year of work, most of it spent planning and searching for the right programmer, the final moment came down...
Everything we need to say can be summed up in 30 words. Our time here ranges from six months to five years, with work ranging from music reviews to feature writing. Although our experiences could amount...
Something big happens every semester.
At least, that’s what I have come to believe and remember.
This spring, President Barack Obama announced Osama bin Laden died, and the United States...
Flashback to September 2009: Texas football had just beaten Texas Tech in the revenge game of the 2008 [Michael] Crabtree disaster. In my burnt orange button-down “gameday shirt,” (which...
I’ve lured you here under false pretenses.
This is not, as the headline implies, a cheeky column about Gov. Rick Perry. Instead, I’m here to dazzle you with the depth of my petty narcissism....
As a graduating senior and Daily Texan associate editor, I’m given the unenviable task of composing a farewell column in which I’m expected to simultaneously reflect on my time at UT —...
At the corner of Guadalupe and 31st streets, there is a crosswalk that is probably the only aspect of Austin I hate more than the people who hang out at Spider House.
The “crosswalk”...
Helen,
I feel like over the past four years, I’ve written opinion columns ranging on just about every topic, but I’ve never had the opportunity to express my opinion of you.
In general,...
A sportswriter’s job is to make something more interesting than it actually is.
With my passion for sports, this has never been a challenge — I was the kid watching ESPN instead of Nickelodeon.
When...
