There is a beemergeny at UT. If administrators don’t act now, we may be stung by the repercussions.
A particularly aggressive bee population this summer has experts warning Austinites to exercise...
Many students give little thought to the possibility of digital insecurity on college campuses. The technological privilege of middle- to upper-class students often blinds us to the hardships of lower-income...
For transfer students, it’s easy to see disparities in the way freshmen and transfers are treated here at UT. It all starts before orientation, where we’re behind other students in class schedule...
With more than 50,000 students, 170 majors and 1,300 student organizations, UT has a lot to offer. But this can lead students to find and interact in small circles. While this helps in finding a friend...
Last semester, I took a class in which the professor did not enter any grades into Canvas and never returned feedback for some of the papers we wrote. It was difficult to improve and to predict what my...
If you attend UT, you’re no stranger to the insistent, aggressively friendly students tabling along Speedway and West Mall each day. Armed with shining smiles and an abundance of flyers, these heroes...
Life is expensive. Saving is not. For half the cost of a Starbucks coffee a day, you could end up with a quarter of a million dollars.
Here’s how: Starting at age 20, save $1,000 a year...
These last few weeks you’ve probably seen pictures of chain-link fences and concrete floors, heard children crying and scrolled through endless outraged tweets. The scope and complexity of the border...
The battle for accessibility can be exhausting for disabled people. We’re confronted every day by an inaccessible world, and it can be easy to accept it and not put up a fight. However, on our college...
Austin City Council will soon consider loosening an ordinance that controls when and where people may publicly solicit in the city. The ordinance, outlined in Section 9-4-13 of the city code, is designed...
The UT System’s 2017 Cultivating Learning and Safe Environments report found that 15 percent of female undergraduates at UT-Austin have been sexually assaulted since enrollment. 28 percent of the...
After the Santa Fe school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott announced an initiative to enhance safety in schools throughout the state. Shortly after, he published the School and Firearm Safety Action Plan, which...
