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Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

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Unpaid internships offer few protections for participants

Lauren Franklin October 29, 2013

College students are no strangers to internships. In our quest to have productive summers, meaningful college experiences and dazzling resumes, many of us have found ourselves interning in a company or...

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Conservative UT students need a better option

Chris Jordan October 28, 2013

On Sept. 25, Young Conservatives of Texas held an “affirmative action bake sale,” featuring baked goods priced at different levels based on race and gender of the buyer. White males paid...

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UT’s student leaders stand with President William Powers Jr.

Andrew Clark and Horacio Villarreal October 28, 2013

UT President William Powers Jr. recently delivered his annual State of the University Address to the University community, wherein he highlighted several of his accomplishments over his tenure as president...

Could blind grading systems allow UT professors to avoid favoritism?

Larisa Manescu October 25, 2013

Establishing close professional relationships with educators can be the most beneficial part of attending a university. It is the risk of losing these opportunities that initially made me wary of blind...

Potter, other UT professors should peer-review abortion research before they politicize it

Travis Knoll October 25, 2013

UT sociology professor Joseph Potter was in the hot seat Monday and Tuesday, testifying to stop the controversial abortion restrictions that were passed this summer. The restrictions, some of which would...

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Breast cancer awareness shouldn’t sexualize the disease

Sonali Kalvala October 24, 2013

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and last October, millions of  dollars in donations flooded through various cancer awareness organizations for the purpose of raising public interest...

Achieving a culture of academic honesty takes a campus

Jennifer Ebbeler October 23, 2013

Editor’s Note: This column is one in a series by associate classics professor Jennifer Ebbeler on the changing nature of higher education at UT-Austin and other institutions. Look for Prof. Ebbeler’s...

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Beating breast cancer without the pink ribbon

Eric Nikolaides October 21, 2013

When my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer six years ago, I knew that I would never be the same — cancer has a way of changing your perspective like that.  But I never would have guessed...

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UT Students are role models, whether or not they care to admit it

Sid Sridhar October 18, 2013

Of all the experiences I had at ACL this year, the strangest by far was seeing three young, unsupervised children in the middle of a crowd going wild for Kendrick Lamar, a rap artist known mainly for his...

Event shows need for greater awareness of worker’s rights at UT-Austin

Travis Knoll October 17, 2013

Last week, Solidarity Ignite, an advocacy group promoting fair working conditions in factories, hosted an event to highlight the benefits of the University Co-op’s new partnership with Alta Gracia,...

Event shows need for greater awareness of worker’s rights at UT-Austin

Travis Knoll October 17, 2013

Last week, Solidarity Ignite, an advocacy group promoting fair working conditions in factories, hosted an event to highlight the benefits of the University Co-op’s new partnership with Alta Gracia,...

In shifting culture of business, women can have the advantage

Rachel Huynh October 17, 2013

It’s a well-established fact that women only earn 77 cents for every dollar earned by men in equal positions. Such figures are cited often in this day and age, and the crusade to break through the...

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