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It’s time to improve Texas football game day

Mitchell Hughes Ralph April 19, 2015

Austin, we have a problem. Since losing the 2010 BCS Championship to Alabama, the Texas Longhorns football team has been far from great, compiling a record of 36-28 (23-20 in Big 12 play) over the last...

To improve student-faculty ratio, UT must hire more faculty for less

Alberto A. Martinez April 17, 2015

One reason why Harvard University constantly excels as a top university is its low student-faculty ratio. Remarkably, for each professor at Harvard, there are only about seven students. Those students...

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Texas legislators hard at work filing, passing regressive bills

Claire Smith April 17, 2015

I am disgusted by this Legislature. The recent trend of filing and passing grossly regressive bills in both chambers of the Legislature is a massive failure of Texans. If you aren’t mad, you should...

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Albert Maysles’ documentary “Iris” on UT visiting professor and fashion industry icon Iris Apfel set to release

Avani Patel April 16, 2015

Iris Apfel, the 93-year-old “Rare Bird of Fashion,” has held many honors to this day: an exhibit dedicated to her style at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, her own line of clothes on the Home...

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A summer intern’s take on working at a major fashion house in New York City

Angela Morisette April 16, 2015

The summer after my freshman year, I had the opportunity to take an internship position in Fendi North America’s flagship office in New York City, right above their 5th Avenue retail store.  When...

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The phrase ‘personal is political’ must return to democratic discourse

Jeremi Suri April 15, 2015

One of the great accomplishments in recent American society was the recognition, during the 1960s and 1970s, that the “personal is political.” For civil rights activists; this meant that racial...

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UT students honor memory of Holocaust survivors

Jason Epstein April 15, 2015

Similar to the sound of a tornado warning in the states, two sirens will pierce the air in Israel in the next 24 hours, bringing traffic and society to a standstill. But these will not be calls of warning....

We must encourage female interest in STEM fields from early age

Mary Dolan April 14, 2015

It would be an understatement to say that the University of Texas is an enormous school. There are many different programs and majors that students can explore. Some of the most popular of these are the...

Ranking system a poor reflection of Texas public universities

Jordan Shenhar April 14, 2015

A ranking is only as useful as its underlying methodology. If it relies on an algorithm that reasonably weighs empirically measured variables against one another, it might have some value. But...

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Student Government should oppose BDS legislation

Walker Fountain April 14, 2015

Editor's Note: The Texan received this piece around the same time as Mukund Rathi's piece. They are not intended to be read as a point/counterpoint. At the University of Texas, we pride ourselves...

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Support for BDS is support for justice and open dialogue

Mukund Rathi April 14, 2015

Editor's Note: The Texan received this piece around the same time as Walker Fountain's piece. They are not intended to be read as a point/counterpoint.   In February, Harvard University’s...

SB 1819 wrongfully targets undocumented students

Nathan Burchard April 10, 2015

On Monday, the bill to repeal in-state tuition for undocumented students was sent to full committee for review with recommendation to pass.   To repeal this law would be a mistake.   Lt....

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