By the end of February, Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority will post signs banning smoking within 15 feet of all 2,700 bus stops in Austin. However, “ban” might be too extreme of...

Tuition increases on the horizon After deliberating for less than two months, the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee submitted its recommendation today to President William Powers Jr. The committee proposes...

Integrative biology professor Mike Singer attempts to defend grade inflation in his guest column published in The Daily Texan on Nov. 23 by labeling those of us who do uphold academic standards as “grade...

Near the end of his Nov. 16 column on the “Questionable value of arts programs,” Samian Quazi describes “interpretive African dance” as a class that exemplifies the problem with...

Waves of protests spread across the globe over the last year from Egypt to Greece, demonstrating the strength of the human spirit. Refusing to be outdone, the United States began participating in this...

Given the current state of higher education, university administrators around the country are working to champion timeless buzzwords such as “creativity,” “innovation” and “entrepreneurship”...

Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell launched his re-election campaign Wednesday at Becker Elementary, his childhood school in South Austin. First elected in May 2009, Leffingwell elaborated on his role as a steady...

My colleagues, integrative biology professors David Hillis and Eric Pianka, object to grade inflation and have expressed so through firing lines that recently ran in The Daily Texan. Hillis notes that...

“Ruffled feathers are good — they make us all better.” These were ending words of sorts, delivered by Rep. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, at Friday’s hearing held by the Joint Oversight...

A panel of federal judges released a new set of maps for state legislative districts Thursday. The process of re-drawing these maps, known as redistricting, happens every 10 years to account for population...

While I can appreciate the light-heartedness of Friday’s Daily Texan story on the top 10 bathrooms on campus, I feel that a front-page story letting students know which restroom has a couch is in...

UT students, thank you so much for the support you have given us the last 12 years. The collapse of bonfire on Nov. 18, 1999, was a day that no Aggie will forget, and the University of Texas has been there...