Editor’s note: As part of our effort to publish a wide range of perspectives about Abigail Fisher’s case against UT we have included a summary of an amicus brief filed in support of the plaintiff. The...

On Oct. 6, the Supreme Court will hear Abigail Fisher’s challenge to UT’s undergraduate admissions policy. Fisher objects to UT’s consideration of the race of applicants who fail to gain...

On various occasions I’ve thought about recording a tape and pressing “play” whenever I meet yet another new person: “Hi! My name is Maria, I’m an exchange student from Germany....

In 2008, high school senior Abigail Fisher was in a position to which many of us can relate: She had applied to UT and was anxiously awaiting the school’s reply. She didn’t qualify for automatic...

In his speech last week at the Republican National Convention, the party’s nominee Mitt Romney offered nothing to college students reeling from the soaring cost of higher education. According to...

   There’s been a lot of buzz about the size of this year’s freshman class. Roughly 8,000 students large, it may be the largest incoming group of students that the University has...

I had never heard a rape joke until I came to UT. Sitting in a crowd of freshmen in Hogg Auditorium, I watched orientation advisors caution against making an exchange commonly heard between students on...

In 2009, I photographed Governor Rick Perry sticking his tongue out while signing legislation at his desk in the Texas State Capitol building. He was probably just wetting his lips, but frozen in that...

In 1940 a group of UT students cooperatively built, managed and lived in a house called The Campus Guild, located at 2804 Whitis Avenue. They understood that having a vested interest in their housing situation...

A new year begins today for the Texan. We’re ready. Being a college student today means finding your way in a world that seems to have lost its own. At almost every level of government, compromise...

If you’re worried about getting a job after graduation (and you should be), pick your major carefully. A report earlier this year by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce...

I’m not going to deny it: Bike helmets are lame. They look lame, they feel lame, if you don’t bombard them with Febreeze on a regular basis their smell surpasses lame and goes straight to repellant....