With all the assignments, exams and homework that come our way, we often forget to think of those who grade them. But last week’s graduate student protest highlights why we should give our teacher...
Although 2018 has hardly begun, America has yet again been plagued by more than 5,000 incidents of gun violence.
Last year featured criticisms that news outlets are biased in describing perpetrators....
Once students are on campus, they are busy. They are studying. They are meeting with their professors in office hours. They are participating in extracurricular activities. All of this takes a toll. Twenty-four...
“Happy days are here again,” Billboard magazine declared last March. In the last six years, music streaming has rejuvenated the American recording industry, bringing an end to 15 years of declining...
“Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies?”
A question heard hundreds of times a day across the 40 Acres. For many people, this question is a welcome offering of a delicious treat....
West Campus is home to snazzy apartment high-rises, elegant sorority houses, fraternity compounds and bizarre co-ops. It’s also home to a considerable homeless population.
Residents of West Campus...
New information reveals that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is even more corrupt, disingenuous and cruel than previously imagined.
ICE terrorized the Austin community last February,...
There are many beautiful, old buildings on the UT campus whose utility belies their age. Light filtering through the long windows onto the worn tables in the architecture library makes studying pleasant....
How much safer and inviting would downtown be for pedestrians, cyclists and even local car traffic if I-35 did not create a looming physical barrier between East and West Austin? TxDOT is working on two...
Complaining about construction on campus is a sacred Longhorn tradition. But with the infamous Speedway construction set to finally end this spring, it appears that, for once, we might not have any more...
Notoriously stereotyped as reckless, young drivers supposedly show little regard for the rules of the road by blasting music, passing illegally and speeding. However, public employees drive recklessly,...
Few classes make time for escaping the rigid classroom environment and attending to the local Austin community’s needs. UGS Signature Courses should have a required service-learning component to...
