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The Daily Texan

Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

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Business students create Bible study, incorporate ethics

Lindsey Cherner March 8, 2011

At first Brothers and Sisters in Business simply wanted to change the businessmen and women for the better. Once they saw this was possible, they wanted to change the world one ethical decision at a...

Students celebrate week of feminism

Ahsika Sanders March 8, 2011

Students came out of the feminist closet Monday to tell their tales of gender equality. The Gender and Sexuality Center opened their celebration of National Feminist Week with the truth wall, imitating...

Austin police report confirms declining violent crime rates

Marty McAndrews March 8, 2011

Citywide violent and property crimes reached a six-year low late last month, according to a new Austin Police Department report. According to the report, citywide violent crime decreased by 19.1 percent,...

State senator traces success to years spent on Forty Acres

March 8, 2011

Editor’s note: This is the second in a three-part series about UT alumni who are now in the Texas Legislature Standing in the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority house, a member of the Texas Spooks comes up...

Sonogram bill awaits approval by Senate after passing House

Melissa Ayala March 8, 2011

In its first vote this session, the Texas House easily approved a bill Monday that would place new restrictions on a woman’s right to obtain an abortion by requiring her to undergo a sonogram at least...

Restaurants raise funds for Texas 4000

Yvonne Marquez March 8, 2011

Students helped fight cancer by ordering chicken wings at Pluckers on Monday. Texas 4000, a student charity organization whose members ride bicycles from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska, every summer to...

Human rights, art come together in Chilean film

Amy Thornton March 8, 2011

Art and human rights converged Monday night at a film screening featuring Chilean political prisoners of the Pinochet dictatorship who looked to the stars as a way to preserve their inner freedom. The...

UT System proposal seeks to give students voice in budget plans

Lauren Giudice March 8, 2011

The UT System Student Advisory Council approved a recommendation to implement more student involvement in budgetary decision-making on Saturday. UT-Austin’s current system of college tuition budget...

Speaker raises awareness for intellectually disabled

Allison Harris March 7, 2011

Addie Lasseigne, lead buddy ambassador for Best Buddies Texas, said her peers in middle school called her names for having an intellectual disability and made her not want to go to school. Lasseigne,...

Iraqi refugee styles student hair at event

Matthew Stottlemyre March 7, 2011

At a Hyde Park house where 12 UT students speak to one another in Arabic, a hair stylist new to the country offered haircuts as an opportunity to build her clientele base Sunday. Intesaar Abu-Jus, 47,...

Austin police expand patrols to discourage driving drunk

Katrina Tollin March 7, 2011

Austin police made 29 arrests in the Sixth Street area Saturday night, including 11 arrests for public intoxication. APD designated Saturday and Tuesday part of the No Refusal Initiative to reduce the...

Explore UT throws doors open to public

Katrina Tollin March 7, 2011

Smokey the Cannon boomed every half hour to welcome nearly 50,000 visitors to campus for the 10th annual Explore UT event. Visitors from across Texas came to the University to participate. Explore UT,...

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