Last week, the Austin Police Department began cracking down on jaywalking with a focus on Guadalupe Street, according to an article in The Daily Texan. The two-week campaign is a response to the 17 pedestrians...

Thursday’s article, “English proficiency levels vary among teaching assistants,” does not provide a balanced overview of either foreign-language teaching on campus or teachers whose first...

State Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, appeared on campus Wednesday as the first speaker for the Texas Politics Speaker Series. While dabbling in issues from the start of his political career to his plans for...

It is totally ridiculous and unacceptable that many students aren’t showing up to the football games this year, and the ones who do show up are late and leave early. What could be more fun than going...

Last week’s column titled “Study abroad not a panacea” suggested a variety of reasons why study abroad participation is not wholly responsible for the higher graduation rates of participants,...

Last week, Nokia unveiled its much-anticipated line of Windows-based smartphones at Nokia World 2011. In the past couple of years, the once-leading telecom giant has steadily fallen behind its competitors...

Rick Perry recently made the decision to skip some of the upcoming Republican presidential nominee debates and claims his past participation in debates was “a mistake.” Perhaps he’s...

At a time when nationwide, youth-led protests have focused media attention on college graduates’ mounting student loan burdens, Republican presidential candidates have begun addressing this issue....

Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to get out of Washington and talk with folks across the country about how we can create jobs and get our economy growing faster. This is a tough...

“Would I have had different priorities for that money? Yes. We didn’t choose to bring this to the campus.” — President William Powers Jr. on the UT System Board of Regents’...

Monday’s Faculty Council meeting featured concern regarding an article by the Austin American-Statesman titled “Do college ratings of professors make the grade?” published two weeks...

Early last week, presidential candidate Rick Perry debuted his new tax and spending reform plan in an effort to revitalize his floundering campaign. Advertised as straightforward, Perry’s Cut, Balance...