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Financial aid office deals with overflow

Alexa Ura September 10, 2012

Despite facing a staff shortage and a larger than normal incoming class, the Office of Student Financial Services managed to release more than $196 million in financial aid during the first two weeks of...

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KUT to feature accounts of Bastrop fire victims

Carly Coen September 10, 2012

Bastrop residents who have spent the last year collecting the ashes from the Labor Day wildfires will share their stories over the radio waves in a public forum hosted by KUT. KUT News Director Emily...

GOP hopefuls may make DREAM Act fulfillment unlikely

Kenny Chilton September 10, 2012

Undocumented students may once again battle for the right to an affordable higher education if three Texas Legislative hopefuls capture seats at the Capitol in November. Kelly Hancock (R-Fort Worth),...

Weekend cold front sweeps through Austin

Blake Carter September 10, 2012

The United States experienced its first taste of autumn this year as an expected cold front drifted throughout the country; this is good news for the state of Texas, which has suffered some of the hottest...

UT appoints director to planned, all-inclusive career services center

Taylor Hampton September 10, 2012

With the appointment of a faculty director, a student-led initiative to create a campus-wide career and recruiting center is one step closer to becoming a reality. The School of Undergraduate Studies...

UT’s first African-American vice president dies

David Maly September 10, 2012

Editor’s note: Because of a production error, the complete version of this article did print in the September 7 edition. It is rerun in full below. When he graduated high school in the 1940s, James...

UT’s first African-American vice president dies

David Maly September 7, 2012

Editor’s note: Because of a production error, the complete version of this article did not print in the September 7 edition. It is rerun in full below. When he graduated high school in the 1940s,...

Activists must pick their poison

David Maly September 7, 2012

Members of the Make UT Sweatshop-Free Coalition are preparing to go to court next week for criminal charges filed against them by UT. A group of 18 UT students was arrested last spring during a sit-in...

Symposium brings together graduate, undergraduate students in the name of energy

Jacob Martella September 7, 2012

With a campus as large as UT’s, it is easy for graduate and undergraduate students to become disconnected from one another. Assistant public affairs professor Varun Rai said UT’s Energy Institute...

ACL may repeat smoking ban

Alex Raisch September 7, 2012

Smokers attending the Austin City Limits music festival may be constrained for the second year in a row because of a burn ban set for all of Travis County. The Travis County Commissioners Court approved...

State employees may get a new retirement plan soon

Mary Ellen Knewtson September 7, 2012

With Texas legislators looking for ways to trim spending for the January legislative session, retirement plans for new UT faculty and staff may look more like 401(k) plans than the predetermined pension...

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Landscaping technique helps UT save water

Bobby Blanchard September 7, 2012

While UT is saving 233,000 gallons of water annually by using rock gardens and drought-tolerant plants, landscapers in the facilities department are looking to save even more. UT’s Campus Planning...

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