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Longhorn EMS officers (left to right) Sharon Rong, Arvind Subramanian, Brandon Galvan on Feb. 8, 2024.

UT student organization creates first aid outpost in Jester

Matthew Gomez, General News Reporter February 14, 2024

A student organization aims to provide first aid supplies to students for free at a newly opened outpost in Jester.  Located across from the Jester Java cafe, the first aid outpost opened on Feb. 1....

Rise in respiratory infections led to class cancelation

Rise in respiratory infections led to class cancelation

Abby Breyfogle, General News Reporter February 14, 2024

The rise in COVID-19, cold and flu rates over the past few weeks caused many students and professors to fall behind in their classes. According to the CDC Texas is experiencing “very high” levels...

Texas Attorney General sues city of Austin for lenient marijuana laws

Texas Attorney General sues city of Austin for lenient marijuana laws

Aaron Sullivan, Senior News Reporter February 14, 2024

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Jan. 31 against the city of Austin for its lenient marijuana possession ordinance, arguing that it violates the Texas Local Government Code. The...

Food Security Agency to start grocery shuttle system for students

Food Security Agency to start grocery shuttle system for students

Laura Rivera, General News Reporter February 14, 2024

A student government agency will begin a pilot shuttle system in the spring that takes students from campus to the grocery store during the weekend.  The Food Security Agency ensures students have...

Miakan-Garza Band continues wait for UT to return ancestors’ remains

Miakan-Garza Band continues wait for UT to return ancestors’ remains

Aaron Sullivan, Senior News Reporter February 12, 2024

President Jay Hartzell promised in 2020 to return Indigenous human remains in the University’s archaeology collection. The Miakan-Garza Band placed a new repatriation request on Jan. 26 after recent...

Kennedy Cortez, one of the Directors of Operations for UT’s Native American & Indigenous Collective on Sunday.

Delay of Native Studies course approval raises community concerns

Erika Pernis, General News Reporter February 12, 2024

The Texas State Board of Education delayed the approval of curriculum standards for a high school Native Studies course. The proposed course, Ethnic Studies: American Indian/Native Studies, is designed...

Jordyn Butler, an African and African Diaspora Studies sophomore, works at the former Multicultural Engagement Center on February 8. Butler served as the public relations chair of Afrikan American Affairs, a former MEC agency, last semester.

Former Multicultural Engagement Center agencies demand UT reestablishes center

Naina Srivastava, Senior News Reporter February 12, 2024

Former Multicultural Engagement Center agencies are demanding that the University reestablish the MEC, affirm job security for former center staff and return privately sourced money, according to a Feb....

Fetti parked in West Campus on Feb. 10, 2024.

Get ready for Fetii: UT study finds Austin-based rideshare app could decrease congestion, carbon emissions

Maryam Ahmed, Senior News Reporter February 12, 2024

The Austin-based rideshare app Fetii could reduce traffic congestion and carbon emissions, a January study from a UT consulting student organization found.  Fetii is a rideshare service of private...

Students walk along Guadalupe Street in front of Dirty Martin's on Monday.

Dirty Martin’s saved with light rail project redesign amid lawsuit

Aaron Sullivan, Senior News Reporter February 12, 2024

The Austin Transit Partnership recently cut Dirty Martin’s Place from its acquisition list, saving the nearly century-old West Campus burger joint from plans to build a light rail line on Guadalupe Street. The...

Austin City Council approves code to expand bike parking spaces

Austin City Council approves code to expand bike parking spaces

Olivia Dilley, Senior News Reporter February 12, 2024

Austin City Council approved an update to the city's bike parking code which will expand the amount of bike parking spaces available to cyclists. The new code simplifies regulations for developments,...

Panelist Paige Duggins-Clay, J.D., discusses the future of public education during the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society's Afrofuturism and Law Symposium at the Jamail Pavilion on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024. Left to right are Afrofuturism and Education panelists Dean Demetria Frank, Paige Duggins-Clay, Andrew Hairston and moderator Dean Shavonne Henderson.

Afrofuturism and the Law Symposium’ imagines the future of the Black legal field

Caroline McConnico, General News Reporter February 12, 2024

The Thurgood Marshall Legal Society hosted a symposium at the UT Law School, celebrating Black legal scholarship on Saturday. The symposium, called ‘Afrofuturism and the Law,’ explored the future...

General Philippe Lavigne, the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation to NATO speaks at the NATO and the Future of American Security Conference in the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center on Tuesday.

NATO conference discusses future of American security

Jaelyn Rodriguez, General News Reporter February 12, 2024

Dozens of guests filled the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center on Feb. 6. to attend the first installment of the 2024 NATO Washington Summit Campaign put on by the Transatlantic Security Initiative to examine...

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