Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

The Daily Texan

Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

The Daily Texan

Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

The Daily Texan

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U.S. can learn from strengths, weaknesses of Latin American universities

Travis Knoll July 11, 2013

Editor's Note: This column is the first in a series on higher education abroad from UT-Austin students who are currently studying outside the U.S.  After having studied in both Argentina and...

Voting Rights Act decision threatens voter participation

Ketan Kapasi July 11, 2013

When the Supreme Court decided two weeks ago to invalidate the heart of the Voting Rights Act (“VRA”) of 1965, the decision sent shockwaves throughout the state, where the court’s decision...

Supreme Court fumbled gene patent case

Ross McBee July 8, 2013

In the most recent term of the Supreme Court, which ended June 26, decisions were made on gay rights, voting rights and affirmative action. But lost in that list of big-ticket cases was a case that may...

In Fisher decision, Supreme Court failed minorities

Mark Birkenstock July 1, 2013

On June 24, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision for Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the case brought by Abigail Fisher which sought to curb UT's ability to use race as a factor...

Texas women will remember

Nathaniel Norris June 25, 2013

Editor's Note: This piece is one in a series of op-eds written by UT students that The Daily Texan will be publishing in response to the ongoing debate in the Texas Legislature over enacting stricter...

Talk straight about abortion

Travis Knoll June 25, 2013

Editor's Note: This piece is one in a series of op-eds written by UT students that The Daily Texan will be publishing in response to the ongoing debate in the Texas Legislature over enacting stricter...

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You don’t have to be exceptional to be affected by abortion

Danielle Corley June 25, 2013

Editor's Note: This piece is one in a series of op-eds written by UT students that The Daily Texan will be publishing in response to the ongoing debate in the Texas Legislature over enacting stricter...

Texas women aren’t going to take abortion restrictions lightly

Leslie Tisdale June 24, 2013

Editor's Note: This piece is one in a series of op-eds written by UT students that The Daily Texan will be publishing in response to the ongoing debate in the Texas Legislature over enacting stricter...

Student entrepreneurs need space on the 40 Acres

Nick Spiller June 24, 2013

Former UT-Austin President Robert M. Berdahl wrote in the University’s most recent master plan,  “Linking people to a place through a shared sense of commitment is what building a community...

The Boy Scouts can do better

Larisa Manescu June 14, 2013

On its website, the Boy Scouts of America claims that it helps build the future leaders of America. If this is true, its May 23 decision to end the organization’s ban on openly gay youth may have...

The Washington Post misleads readers on linguistics

Riley Brands June 13, 2013

You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone outside the field of linguistics who can accurately describe what linguists actually do, which is study the way language is used by speakers. Count the press...

Research helps rectify human rights abuses

Travis Knoll June 10, 2013

Last spring, I interned at the Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, an interdisciplinary center housed at the University of Texas School of Law. Their 2013 annual conference, which I attended,...

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