Last week, freshmen on the 40 Acres cast their ballots to elect our two first-year representatives for Student Government. The winners, Adam Bergman and Alex Street, collectively received less...
Austin’s senior population is growing at a frenetic rate. Although Austin presents a carefully cultivated image of itself as a city for young creatives, its older demographic is becoming more prominent....
In schools in Texas and around the country, African American children are learning and chatting between class bells in schools named after Robert E. Lee, the foremost Confederate commander who fought to...
If you aren’t the one out of every five teenagers who lives with a mental condition, statistics suggest that you’ll come across one on the 40 Acres. The most recent University research shows...
I am angry.
Sunday night, a terrorist broke open the window of his hotel room on the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas Strip hotel. He used the medium-sized armory inside to rain carnage on a crowd gathered...
Presumably, there are few things on which Sen. Ted Cruz and Susan Rice, former Obama administration national security advisor, agree. But at the Texas Tribune Festival last month, they struck similar notes...
UT made national news last fall when Young Conservatives of Texas threw their now-infamous bake sale — changing the prices of baked goods depending on the color of a student’s skin —...
It’s week five, but it feels like a lifetime has passed since the first day of class. The daunting reality that our next break isn’t until Thanksgiving feels like running a marathon at the...
At the age of 15, I was kicked in the face while playing soccer, leaving me with a traumatic concussion. I stayed out of school for a month and on the bench for a year. At the time of my accident,...
AT&T’s “The Unseen” commercial is quite spine-chilling. The video, featuring a father who drops his daughter off at a pool, places a boy in the backseat of the dad’s car. After...
You’re standing in line at Starbucks, walking to class with your headphones in and a smile on your face, or at 6th with your friends, when suddenly, that painfully uncomfortable, stomach lurching...
On Thursday, Don Willett, an associate justice on the Texas Supreme Court, was nominated by the president to serve on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal appellate court that represents Texas,...
