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Keyboard player treats audience to light show

Kayla Jonsson October 13, 2011

As studio art graduate student Ezra Masch tapped the buttons on his keyboard, 73 colorful lights corresponding to the notes flooded the Visual Arts Center. The keyboard performance was only one element...

Potential tuition increase causes controversy

Liz Farmer October 13, 2011

Students voiced concerns over potential tuition increases at the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee’s first open forum of this tuition-setting term Wednesday. This is the first year the committee...

Committee suggests Liberal Arts College upgrade

Allie Kolechta October 13, 2011

A newly formed student committee submitted recommendations to decrease tuition and increase the quality of UT’s liberal arts education to the college’s dean on Wednesday. The College Tuition...

UT Professors Research Mexican American Representation and Education

Jennifer Berke October 13, 2011

Mexican Americans were historically neglected both in education and in government representation, according to two UT professors who presented their research Wednesday. Emilio Zamora, professor in the...

Leadership Initiative group determined to stop Texas Aggie Conservatives

Kayla Jonsson October 13, 2011

UT and Texas A&M have long been rivals on the athletic field, and now a group of UT students have established a political rivalry as well. Members of the University Leadership Initiative, a UT student...

Nanotechnology innovator to speak at UT on stopping cancer growth

John Farey October 13, 2011

Packaging the building blocks of DNA into microscopic nanostructures capable of being applied as a skin cream may be the future of cancer treatment, according to one nanotechnology pioneer speaking on...

Qdoba opens on Guadalupe

John Farey October 13, 2011

Business on Guadalupe Street near West Campus appears to be booming with four new restaurants opening this fall, despite slower economic conditions nationally. Qdoba owner Kortney Otten, who opened a...

Southern California shooting results in 6 killed, 3 injured

The Associated Press October 13, 2011

SEAL BEACH, Calif. — Southern California police are trying to determine the motive in a shooting that has killed six people and critically wounded three others in a hair salon in the city of Seal...

Efforts to repeal first law on gay rights history fail

The Associated Press October 13, 2011

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Opponents of a California law requiring that the contributions of gays and lesbians be taught in public schools have failed in their attempt to qualify a ballot referendum to...

Women end sex strike after paving of Colombian road

The Associated Press October 13, 2011

BOGOTA, Colombia — The women of the Colombian town of Barbacoas have declared their sex strike over. It is not clear how many women took part, and compliance is impossible to prove. But the women...

Immigration law spurs protests

The Associated Press October 13, 2011

ALBERTVILLE, Ala. — Along Main Street in this small Alabama town, the Mexican restaurant was closed, lights were out at a Hispanic-owned grocery store and even a bank catering to Spanish speakers...

Self-overdose unlikely in Jackson’s death

The Associated Press October 12, 2011

LOS ANGELES — A medical examiner struck a major blow to the defense of Michael Jackson’s doctor Tuesday, saying it is unreasonable to believe Jackson could have given himself a fatal dose of...

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