In mid-February, Austin made history by becoming the first city in the South to implement a mandatory paid sick leave policy. Austin locals can finally breathe a stuffy-nosed sigh of relief, as they...
As a low-income student, I’ve always found textbook prices to be a barrier to my education. This year, I spent over $800 on textbooks. The time it takes to decide which ones I can afford based on...
Since 2003, when Texas laws changed to allow parents to opt out of certain vaccines for non-medical reasons, the number of unvaccinated public-school children in Texas skyrocketed from 2,300 the first...
The University has released the Fall 2018 course list, so it’s time to make some choices: What classes are you taking? When are you taking them? And, perhaps most important, who is going to teach...
Where does a man go after wrecking the State Department and getting canned as the nation’s top diplomat? If you’re Rex Tillerson, apparently you go to Texas. Reports last month named him as...
The UT System administration is ramping up its search for a new chancellor as current Chancellor William McRaven steps down next month. Vice Chancellor Randa Safady stated that any names at this point...
Seeing a fellow student dry heaving on the east mall isn’t a pretty sight. People assume I’m folded over because of a few poor choices from the weekend before. Little do they know I’m...
Although Austin is riddled with problems, there is one area where I must give credit where credit is due: I have never felt ashamed or fearful of being myself.
While I have had the privilege of...
Hussam Djadi was excited to vote in the 2018 primary election, the first election he was old enough to vote in. After missing the early voting period, Djadi, an electrical engineering freshman, arrived...
Yes, I am a black woman. Yes, I can be angry. But despite what you see on television, I’m not just a mad black woman.
This trope exploits black women and illustrates them as naturally sassy, ill-mannered...
Student safety was a central topic during my freshman orientation, but I was never informed that two UT students had died from drug overdose months before. As public health experts anticipate the opioid...
Apparently, bleeding students for everything they are worth through tuition isn’t enough. Student Government’s Senior Class Gift Committee seeks to raise about $120,000 dollars from the class...
