After another 17 lives were extinguished in yet another mass shooting, we turned to rituals that have become almost instinctual. Democratic politicians made passionate speeches about how this must never...
A firestorm hit Twitter and Facebook last October as millions of Americans shared stories of sexual assault and harassment under the banner of #MeToo. Forty-five percent of American Facebook users either...
If, like me, you’re one of the 10 percent of out-of-state students at UT, you probably fly on a regular basis to go home for breaks. Even if you’re from Texas, you probably fly occasionally...
President Donald Trump released his budget proposal for the 2019 fiscal year last Monday. Conservative proponents of the plan have heralded that it would eliminate “wasteful” programs and regulations...
Haggard and zombie-like, students trudge to their 8 a.m. classes. Their eyes are dull, their movements sluggish. Dark circles hug their eyes. When they speak, their voices slur nonsensical, drifting words.
What...
The Wendy’s on the first floor of Jester is more than just a Wendy’s: It’s a beacon of late-night regret and gut-busting four dollar meal deals. Wendy’s didn’t earn this responsibility....
The “third places” of a city are where people go outside of their homes or workplaces, and they are the backbone of a city’s culture. Every Texas city has Starbucks, Walmart and Whataburger...
The hill country county I call home, Kendall, is solidly Republican. President Donald Trump won 78.6 percent of the votes cast by my county’s voters. I had just turned 18 when my family decided to...
“I don’t ever learn my lessons,” I recently told an old friend, the only thing thicker than my sardonicism being my accent. It was in regard to commiseration of the past, but could just...
UT’s add and drop policy allows students to add a class during the first four class days or drop a class during the first 12 class days without penalty. But this doesn’t always happen in practice....
By the time you get to the end of this sentence, a person will have died from something our laws could have prevented. Every six seconds, one person dies from a tobacco-related disease. It’s time...
The University of Texas System owns 2.1 million acres of land in West Texas that accounts for $19.9 billion of the System’s endowment. The vast space, operated by University Lands, generates this...
