Recently, the New York Times published a response on their Social Q’s column to a question asking if testing accommodations were harmful to an autistic student and unfair to the rest of the class.
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Earlier this month, the State Republican Executive Committee denied Log Cabin Republicans, a Republican group representing LGBTQ conservatives, a booth at the Texas Republican state convention. That was...
April 24 marked the long-awaited release of Robert Williams (aka Meek Mill) from prison.
Fans and social justice activists alike celebrated the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to free Williams...
Major League Hacking, a national body that oversees large-scale hackathons, has several corporate sponsors. Two of those sponsors are Awake Chocolate, a hypercaffeinated chocolate brand, and Soylent, the...
UT System Chancellor William McRaven, an advisor to both the Bush and Obama Administrations and a retired Navy admiral, took questions after a speech at a Society of Plan II Engineers dinner last week....
Trying to understand others’ experiences can feel like an impossible task, but it can be as easy as switching up your reading list.
As we approach the end of a semester, some of us will begin...
The University of Texas at Austin’s goal of diverting 90 percent of waste from landfills faces increasing pressure as we approach the 2020 deadline. Forty-five percent of the campus’ 9,000...
We’re all limited, in some way or another, by our biology. Try to fly without any external exosuits or vehicles. You can’t. Your biology, for better or worse, confines you to the life of the...
When I arrived here at UT, I had to hit the ground running. As transfer students, we have to catch up our first several semesters by taking the right classes, and we’re forced to take a UGS Signature...
Recent debate over Student Government singing “The Eyes of Texas” at their weekly meetings reflects a larger problem on campus. Some students are now trying to question other Longhorns’...
We miss a lot when we turn to streaming behemoths such as Netflix, Hulu and Amazon for our films. According to a 2017 survey licensed by LendEDU, 92 percent of college students have Netflix accounts....
Everyday, hundreds of students walk by The Battle Oaks, unaware they are passing the three oldest living things on campus. On the corner of Whitis Avenue and 24th Street, the trees, all resilient Texas...
