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UT community upset after DCCE closure, staff layoffs

UT community upset after DCCE closure, staff layoffs

Naina Srivastava and Olivia Dilley April 3, 2024

The University announced the closure of the Division of Campus and Community Engagement and subsequent layoffs in an email on Tuesday, leaving staff and students blindsided. The Division’s termination...

The University of Texas tower on Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. The tower was lit up orange for the  Womens Indoor Track and Field Big 12 Championship win.

University to close Division of Campus and Community Engagement

Olivia Dilley, Senior News Reporter April 2, 2024

The University announced today the closure of the Division of Campus and Community Engagement, after a review of the University’s Senate Bill 17 implementation, in an email from President Jay Hartzell. The...

Checking in on the University’s original waste diversion, sustainability promise 10 years later

Checking in on the University’s original waste diversion, sustainability promise 10 years later

Vivien Ayers, General Projects Reporter April 1, 2024

In Littlefield Fountain, at least 50 champagne corks float in the water as the aftermath of students’ graduation photoshoots. A forgotten receipt from the William C. Powers Activity Center Chick-fil-A...

Guard Shaylee Gonzalez on March 22, 2024. Texas played Drexel during the first round of the NCAA Women’s Basketball tournament.

Texas women’s basketball’s season ends falling to North Carolina State in Elite Eight

Emmanuel Ramirez, General Sports Reporter April 1, 2024

The seconds ticked away in the fourth quarter, and graduate guard Shaylee Gonzales could only look on from the bench. The leader who had been so crucial for the Longhorns couldn’t do anything but...

Texas baseball wins series, hangs on to defeat No. 23 Kansas State 6-3

Texas baseball wins series, hangs on to defeat No. 23 Kansas State 6-3

Lindsey Plotkin, Associate Sports Editor March 30, 2024

In a complete shift from the high scoring games on Thursday and Friday nights, with teams blowing the other out, Texas defeated No. 23 Kansas State 6-3 in Manhattan, Kansas. With the win on Saturday, the...

Texas women’s basketball defeats Gonzaga 69-47 to go back to the Elite Eight

Texas women’s basketball defeats Gonzaga 69-47 to go back to the Elite Eight

Isa Almeida, Senior Sports Reporter March 30, 2024

The game might have not looked promising in the early minutes, but top-seeded Texas women’s basketball found its pace to dominate Gonzaga for a 69-47 Sweet Sixteen win at the Moda Center in Portland,...

Right-handed pitcher Andre Duplantier II prepares to pitch during the game against Houston Christian University on Feb. 20, 2024.

Texas baseball bounces back with dominant 21-11 win over No. 23 Kansas State

Lindsey Plotkin, Associate Sports Editor March 30, 2024

After getting dominated by No. 23 Kansas State on Thursday night, Texas baseball reciprocated  the Wildcats’ same energy to even the series at 1-1. In an all out slug-fest on Friday night, Texas came...

Andrews Residence Hall on UT campus on Wednesday.

‘She will never be forgotten:’ a look into three buildings, three stories of UT Women

Kylee Howard, General Projects Reporter March 29, 2024

The University allowed female students to attend its schools from its inception in 1883, joining few universities that admitted both female and male students at the time, almost four decades prior to the...

Junior Social Work major Fabiola Amaya takes the newly operational grocery shuttle from Duren Residence Hall to HEB on Sunday.

UT Food Security Agency launches grocery shuttle pilot program

Sowmya Sridhar, General News Reporter March 27, 2024

The Food Security Agency, in partnership with Parking and Transportation Services, launched a grocery shuttle pilot program on March 23.  The shuttle, which runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on select Saturdays...

Sticking to standardized: a look at past, present, future role of testing in UT admissions

Sticking to standardized: a look at past, present, future role of testing in UT admissions

Emily DeMotte, General Projects Reporter March 25, 2024

For the past four admissions cycles, UT applicants have weighed whether or not standardized scores would make or break their acceptance onto the Forty Acres, adding extra stress to an already uncertain...

Social entrepreneurship org Texas Enactus proves ‘What starts here changes the world’

Social entrepreneurship org Texas Enactus proves ‘What starts here changes the world’

Riddhi Bora, General Life&Arts Reporter March 24, 2024

Content warning: This story contains mentions of sexual assault. “What starts here changes the world” may appear an ambitious statement to some, but for Texas Enactus, it accurately describes their...

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