Last Tuesday, Young Conservatives of Texas rallied in support of then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh amidst a large counterprotest. On Saturday, Kavanaugh was confirmed and sworn in as a Supreme...
Last Wednesday, I heard about my family’s plans to celebrate my grandfather’s birthday that weekend. I logged onto my computer to buy a bus ticket to Houston. I was hopeful that this would...
You get the flu. It’s 3 a.m. You’re nauseous and feverish. After a few hours, you go down to the front desk of your resident hall. The resident assistant on call tells you there’s nothing...
I walked the PCL desperately searching for the book I needed for my first research paper at UT. After searching for a while, I finally gave up and meekly asked a librarian for help. A few clicks on her...
Last semester, I was waiting for class to start in one of Parlin’s white-tiled rooms when my classmates burst into a chorus of scoffing laughs and groans. A student was hunched over his desk, thin...
You’re dumb or smart. You’re left-brained or right-brained. You’re artistic or analytical. You’re extroverted or introverted. You’re categorized, compartmentalized and...
With the fall semester in full swing, students often find their stress levels at new highs. Being away from home coupled with the pressure of a college environment can easily escalate for many...
UT-Austin encourages students to use reusable water bottles and fill them up on campus rather than buy plastic water bottles. Unfortunately, a majority of campus water fountains are not ideal for this...
Eleven missed classes in a row. Nearly a month of absences with no advanced notice. If this were a student’s attendance record, they’d likely fail the class on attendance alone, not to mention...
We’ve all heard that online classes don’t work — you’re probably going to forget to watch them, zone out from your bed and won’t get direct student-professor engagement. But...
Most people take the choice between climbing stairs or taking the elevator for granted, but many differently abled people experience no such luxury. For them, elevators are a necessity.
In 2015, a Pew...
When Shawntal Brown, a graduate student in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, first heard her name mispronounced, the experience made a lasting impression.
“I remember I had a teacher...
