The terrible issue of sexual assault on university campuses is a continual problem that has been especially prominent in the media, with numerous high-profile cases over the past several years. The negative...
On Monday, at long last, the Task Force on Historic Representation of Statuary at The University of Texas at Austin released its lengthy report.
To summarize dozens and dozens of pages of legal jargon...
This February, New York’s attorney general sent cease-and-desist letters to Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens and GNC for selling sham herbal supplements. Of the supplements tested by the Attorney General,...
If you are reading this before August 12, 5 p.m. and you haven't paid your tuition, this will be your schedule. If you are reading this after AUgust 12, 5 p.m. and you haven't paid your tuition,...
The statues of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis have generated a lot of controversy as of late. While it is entirely understandable why one could be offended by these monuments, we must think very carefully...
Last week, the Jefferson Davis statue task force, already worryingly dilatory, announced it would delay the release of its recommendations for 10 days. The recommendations for how President Fenves...
Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has been underestimated before.
First, in 2012 as a political novice, he defeated then-Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the Republican primary for the US Senate. Now, as a...
For many students who transfer from two-year colleges, the transition to a four-year college can be stressful and daunting. The loss of invested work and money is surely among the worst part of the transfer....
Keep Austin weird, eh?
It's kind of hard to maintain your weird status when your downtown is stuffed with continual construction cranes and posh high rise buildings. Who knows? Maybe Austin will...
With the task force on Confederate statuary about to make a decision about the future of the controversial Jefferson Davis statue, and others, this university continues the good practice of soliciting...
Former Governor Rick Perry surely rejoiced this week as a criminal charge for coercion of a public servant, one of two charges leveled against him in an indictment last year, was thrown out by an...
We live in a society nobly pursuing equal rights for women. And yet it seems there is one area in which we do not want gender equality: dating.
We say women should be respected as capable and independent,...
