Recent events in the athletics department show that UT desperately needs clearer rules concerning student-staff romantic relationships. Last Friday, UT men’s athletic director DeLoss Dodds, UT...

At the beginning of every week, we provide a list of opinion-worthy events to expect during the coming week. From 2-4 p.m. on Wednesday, Lee Mun Wah, an acclaimed diversity trainer, will conduct a workshop...

In a speech last Tuesday, UT President William Powers Jr. announced plans to turn over all non-academic University services (food, housing, parking, etc.) to private contractors. Expect those contractors...

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...

The Question: Do you support providing a path to citizenship for the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants already in this country? Alfredo Vasquez Bilingual education junior from Brownsville Yeah,...

On Tuesday, Jan. 29, UT President William Powers Jr. presented a narrative, “Smarter Systems for a Greater UT,” which sounds too good to be true. That’s in large part because it is. The...

In an article published on Jan. 16, The Daily Texan reported that the University “will need to figure out how many student veterans there are” in order to track graduation rates among this...

I understand some of my peers’ concerns regarding “guns on campus.” From my perspective, their opposition to concealed carry on campus is largely based on fear of further violence, a...

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...

Stand on the Drag during rush hour traffic and watch the drivers parade before you, playing with their phones as they go by. Yesterday, over the course of 10 minutes, we counted (approximately) 14 drivers...

Last Tuesday, a group of reproductive choice advocates gathered on the steps of the Texas State Capitol to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that protected women’s...

At 10 a.m. yesterday morning, UT President William Powers Jr., sporting a burnt orange tie and a no-nonsense look, gave a 36-minute address about the future of the University’s finances. Powers introduced...