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Austin creates emergency system for deaf, blind, hard of hearing community

Austin creates emergency system for deaf, blind, hard of hearing community

Leena Alali, News reporter December 17, 2021

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the October 26 flipbook. The city of Austin started providing the community with a system to help those in the blind, deaf and hard of hearing communities...

Austin implements increased safety measures on East 6th Street after shooting

Austin implements increased safety measures on East 6th Street after shooting

Tori Duff, News reporter December 17, 2021

Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the October 19 flipbook. Working as a East Sixth Street bar bouncer, Jack Corrigan said he was no more than 30 feet away from a fatal June shooting outside...

Women-owned Tiny Tats ATX provides tattoos for all communities in Austin

Women-owned Tiny Tats ATX provides tattoos for all communities in Austin

Michelle Facio, Life and Arts General Reporter December 17, 2021

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the October 15 flipbook. In the middle of the hardcore male-dominated Austin tattoo scene, one shop sticks out as a more feminine environment for people...

Heart of bat city

Heart of bat city

Jade Emerson, Life and Arts General Reporter December 17, 2021

Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the October 15 flipbook. As twilight sets out over Lady Bird Lake, crowds gather on Congress Avenue Bridge humming in anticipation. Against the Austin skyline,...

School of Nursing lacks resources to accept all qualified applicants under Texas nursing shortage

School of Nursing lacks resources to accept all qualified applicants under Texas nursing shortage

Koshik Mahapatra, News Reporter December 15, 2021

Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 16 flipbook.  Hospitals across the state are facing a nursing shortage due in part to education programs like UT’s School of Nursing...

‘It’s just so alarming’: UT Jewish community share thoughts on recent antisemitic incidents

‘It’s just so alarming’: UT Jewish community share thoughts on recent antisemitic incidents

Kevin Vu, News Reporter December 15, 2021

Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the November 12 flipbook. Content warning: antisemitism When Rachel Schlesinger and her roommates saw that a racist group hung an antisemitic...

UT students support APHA’s push for prison abolition

UT students support APHA’s push for prison abolition

Marisa Huerta, News Reporter November 30, 2021
The APHA passed a statement Oct. 26 urging federal and local governments to move toward prison abolition and highlighting health concerns in carceral settings.
APD has not issued camping ban violations in West Campus since Prop B went into effect

APD has not issued camping ban violations in West Campus since Prop B went into effect

Tori Duff November 29, 2021

The Austin Police Department has not issued any camping ban citations for unhoused people in the West Campus zip code, 78705, since the ban went into effect in July, despite concerns of student safety...

UT COVID-19 modeling consortium predicts surges in the Austin, Round Rock areas

UT COVID-19 modeling consortium predicts surges in the Austin, Round Rock areas

Itza Martinez, News Reporter November 16, 2021
David Morton, lead consortium collaborator, said if citizens become more relaxed on COVID-19 precautions, there could be a resurgence of cases in the wintertime. 
New blue light call box in West Campus among initiatives to improve safety

New blue light call box in West Campus among initiatives to improve safety

Leila Saidane November 14, 2021

SafeHorns installed a new blue light call box, which calls 911 at the push of a button, on the 23rd Street Artists’ Market alleyway on Friday in an attempt to help students feel safer in West Campus. SafeHorns,...

Texas Alpha Phi Omega parade flag stolen from truck in West Campus

Texas Alpha Phi Omega parade flag stolen from truck in West Campus

Ubah Moallim November 14, 2021

A 45-pound Texas flag was stolen out of the back of a locked pickup truck at Kerbey Lane on Nov. 7.  The flag, owned by service organization Alpha Phi Omega, is one of three used by APO for various...

The number of drug related deaths in Travis County has increased since 2015 to 262 in 2020.

As fentanyl-related overdoses increase, UT provides support to students struggling with addiction

Leila Saidane, Tori Duff, News Reporters November 10, 2021
There were 262 drug-related deaths in Travis County in 2020, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services, a 36% increase from the previous year.
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