This week’s Texan Forum, inspired both by recent Student Government legislation and a nationwide political discussion that grabbed headlines this summer, focuses on transgender and transsexual rights.
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In 2012, my family and I were on a campus tour at UT-Austin accompanying my brother, a prospective student. By the end of the tour, my brother had to use the bathroom, only to realize that there was no...
Last week, scientists reached another landmark climate change consensus with the recommended declaration of the Anthropocene epoch — a period of man changing Earth. No doubt this pronouncement...
There is an invisible friction between the women and men in computer science classes. Women, in classes with ratios of men to women as high as 25-to-1, have begrudgingly accepted their minority status...
When you first move onto the 40 Acres, you have a lot to learn. From figuring out how to operate a dorm shower (without getting scalded) to finding your classes on day one, it helps to know a little in...
Most new Longhorns are breathing a small sigh of relief now that the semester is under way. For the more than 8,500 freshmen, the first class week’s mix of stress and excitement has passed and life...
In 2008, Hillary Clinton told a story about landing in Bosnia “under sniper fire.” She was recalling a harrowing trek, one that supposedly should have shown her experience as a tough prospective...
Throughout the 20th century, liberals fought for the expansion of First Amendment rights. From loosening obscenity laws in Miller v. California to upholding the right to assemble in NAACP...
After a hard-fought primary campaign against Hillary Clinton that clenched 1,893 delegates and rustled the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders has turned into, at best, a tepid Hillary campaign surrogate....
On Aug. 22, the hate group White Lives Matter stood outside of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s office in Houston with demands that they denounce the Black Lives Matter...
A couple weeks ago, I would have had nothing to say about Colin Kaepernick. He doesn’t play for the Texans, so my only impressions would have likely been negative. Of course, all that has changed...
University Panhellenic Council is not unfamiliar with the glaring fact that most Greek organizations, excluding culturally-based groups, lack diversity. We also know that Greek organizations — more...
