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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

Firing Lines

Selectively citing the Supremacy Clause

Martin Scales February 12, 2013

Given your reverence for the Supremacy Clause, do you consider Colorado and Washington’s recent legalization of marijuana an equally foolish and illegal exercise of states’ rights? Do you think...

Rewriting history

February 4, 2013

Wow. Did I miss the coup d’etat in my U.S. history classes?  My classes taught that on Feb. 1, 1945 Franklin Roosevelt was U.S. president. They also taught that the atom bomb was one of the...

Repulsive, liberal drivel

Karen L. Youngblood January 31, 2013

In response to “Perry to Lege: ‘I was wrong’”, published Tuesday, Jan. 29. I was disgusted, to say the least, to read Tuesday’s top column, which amounted to a bashing...

Pointless attention to the NAS

January 30, 2013

All the recent attention devoted to The National Association of Scholars’ report is pointless. The report denounces what it defines as an overemphasis on race, class and gender at UT and A&M...

Strain the brain, not the eyes

The Daily Texan Editorial Board January 29, 2013

Can you please make the crossword bigger in your newspaper? Today is Monday — the day I have the best chance of completing that rascal, and I would appreciate not needing to strain my eyes. I...

Fairness and history all a part of Longhorn identity

The Daily Texan Editorial Board January 22, 2013

When I read the Daily Texan article “Ahmadi Muslim students at UT Austin organize blood drive” [published in September 2012], I was excited because more readers would be informed about the...

Write a firing line

The Daily Texan Editorial Board January 15, 2013

The best voices, the people’s voices. That is the why of the Firing Line. The true measure of any newspaper is its critics, and we want hard-hitting ones. Nothing is taboo except falsehood and libel....

Distinguish Mormons from polygamists

December 4, 2012

I’m a student here at UT and am also a Mormon. I just wanted to say that I would’ve liked yesterday’s article on the polygamist sect to clarify the fact that members of Fundamentalist...

Liberal and uninformed

Lisa Slay November 30, 2012

I do not appreciate your support and stand against Israel. I am disgusted at how liberal and uninformed your paper and the University of Texas students are.  Always protesting and never an intelligent...

Greed, stupidity or a clever marketing ploy?

November 29, 2012

I was shocked when I picked up a copy of today’s Daily Texan to read “UT System sues for Fawcett portrait.” What on earth are the spenders of our tax dollars thinking? How much are the...

Reject Regnerus

November 29, 2012

[Regarding a column by Travis Knoll, which ran Nov. 28 titled “Revisit Regnerus.”] I think it’s nice that you and Regnerus got together and chatted. That’s what civilized people...

Unbalanced coverage

Jori Epstein November 21, 2012

“Twenty-eight minutes ago — sirens in Jerusalem. Ran to shelter. Now we are out and on the way to a shiyur [educational field trip]. The rocket landed…” I didn’t expect...

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