When the Treasury Department announced on June 17 that a woman would be featured on paper currency for the first time since Martha Washington in the late 1800s, Americans suggested everyone from Beyoncé...
Trigger warnings are disclaimers intending to alert an audience of potentially harmful or sensitive material. They are usually established to protect people who suffer from trauma. However, some students...
I sat across from a woman who had experienced struggles I couldn’t even imagine. Samira, a former Iraqi reporter for Reuters, left her career, family and friends to secure the possibility of a comfortable...
Calling it a crisis suggests that forced migrants have produced an unstable and dangerous situation that now affects the West. It negatively frames those seeking safe haven as burdensome — as a burden...
In the spring of last year, many Arabic-speaking students on campus were contacted to volunteer with Austin Independent School District elementary schools as the district saw an influx of Arabic-speaking...
In the fifth Daily Texan Forum, we will hear student perspectives and stories of student involvement in refugee rights and resettlement, specifically focusing on the Central Texas area. The Syrian Refugee...
The felony “checkbox” — the box on the front of most job applications that requires ex-felons to state their criminal past — is an unfair practice that unduly harms ex-felons who...
Through the highs and lows of Barack Obama’s presidency, one question has constantly, and unfortunately, lurked in the background of his tenure — is the president a Muslim?
Although Obama...
With the legalization of marijuana in states such as Colorado and Washington, drug law is starting to ease up on the state level. However, national associations, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration...
Synthetic marijuana — also known as K2, klimax or spice — has been receiving heightened attention as a fatal alternative to marijuana for recreational drug users. Until overbearing drug laws...
From Bobby Seale to Stokely Carmichael, the ’60s Black Power movement gave American society Black men so militant even their Afro picks were a testament to their resistance. Draped in dashikis and...
Dressed in a NASA T-shirt and typical thick-rimmed engineer glasses, Ahmed Mohamed, a freshman from MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, excitedly showed off his home-invented clock to his engineering...
