Teaching is a tough job. The profession requires one to inspire, encourage and engage with their students. This becomes an even more difficult task when a teacher and student are coming from two different...
From proverbs like “you are what you eat” to movements like veganism, the conscious consumption of food is a value woven throughout our modern culture. But another commodity as ubiquitous as...
We are hurting our women. Texas’ House Bill 2 — the omnibus law with sweeping restrictions on clinics, doctors and misoprostol pills — undeniably burdens those seeking abortion care....
As we approach the 10-year anniversary of Nobel-prize winner Al Gore’s documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” there has been another foreboding development in climate change. A new study...
If you live in Austin, you might have seen Google’s self-driving cars driving around town. Austin is just one of four test cities for the “Self-Driving Project” — Google’s...
Among the many frustrating qualities of Bernie Sanders’s supporters, none are more pernicious than the repeated cliché that he is perfect — or even preferable to his rival in the Democratic primary...
Women don’t earn 77 cents on the dollar for the same work as men. If they did, companies would only hire women. The 77 percent figure is not so much a myth as it is a blatant use of statistics without...
A father and son are in a horrible car crash that kills the father. The son is rushed to the hospital, but just before he goes under the knife, the surgeon says, “I can’t operate — that...
“Everything is bigger in Texas” definitely holds true at the state’s flagship university — as one of the largest schools in the nation, paved on 434 acres and home to more than...
The prodigal campaign has won. We should see that culture change soon — all we need to do is kick back and wait for a bit. Student Government does not need monitoring, the executive alliance knows...
Despite the fact that one in five Americans faced mental health problems in 2014, only 60 percent of U.S. adults with a mental illness received treatment, and measures to address inadequate services and...
As a senior wrapping up my last semester before graduation, I can’t help looking back and thinking I never expected college to be like this. Growing up has been a series of these moments for me:...
