Graduate students research, teach and explore new ideas, yet their finances are being mishandled by our government. The Republican Party has recently proposed a tax plan that will increase the amount of...
Last week, Texas State’s newspaper, The University Star, found itself in the news; it had published an ill-advised column titled “Your DNA is an abomination.” With lines like, “ontologically...
Here we are, nearly one year into the Trump presidency.
A year ago, the thing keeping me up most at night was the prospect of the United States turning into an autocracy, the rescinding of civil liberties...
The allegations just keep coming.
Although the #MeToo social media campaign is largely over, many more victims have continued to speak out and lodge formal complaints about their experiences with...
It’s finals season, which means many of us are crunching grades. Students every year pull out the calculator to figure out answers to questions such as, “What is the lowest grade I can make...
If you’ve scrolled through any social media platform at some point during 2017, you’ve probably been bombarded by alarming phrases such as “I want to die,” or posts that otherwise...
Sexual assault cases at the University level rely on two main components: a definition of assault and a structured process for making disciplinary decisions and hearing appeals.
UT’s...
Net neutrality didn’t have to become the partisan issue it is today. There’s nothing fundamentally liberal or conservative about the idea that the companies connecting you to the internet shouldn’t...
SURE Walk’s ridership has increased by almost 500 percent since fall 2016. This semester, they are expected to give rides to approximately 15,000 students.
To keep up with growing demand...
With no end in sight for the renovation of Speedway Mall, the question comes up again and again: Why couldn’t they have added bike lanes?
Cyclists and pedestrians clash regularly on Speedway,...
To better students’ minds, universities must do more than improve healthy minds — they must nurture ill minds back to health. UT has too many ill minds. We kids aren’t alright.
Our...
As cities expand, they acquire more land outside of their borders. This process often takes the form of municipal annexation, whereby unincorporated land adjacent to a city is integrated into the city....
