As the national debate on healthcare heats up (again) this week, we feature student perspectives on public health topics that have a national scope but clear local effects: access to contraceptives, the...
I was 13 when the severe pelvic pain started, pain that made me miss a week of school every month and took away my power to do a simple task such as walking. Pain that felt like a knot twisted with every...
In the three years that I have been working with people who inject drugs, as a volunteer and then a paramedic with Austin Harm Reduction Coalition, AHRC, I have become good at telling when someone is lying...
Prevention is not emphasized in the current health care system of the United States. Decades-long dependency on prescription medication as the magic cure for sickness has caused an increasing reliance...
This is my love song and thank you to KVRX.
Coming to UT my freshman year was particularly intimidating because I was transitioning from a small town where my graduating class consisted of 74 people....
This week, we feature student perspectives on issues that intimately affect us: on access to mental health resources, on tuition increases and on voter engagement.
Jeramy Howell, a government senior...
The stories are haunting. The dark underbelly of our society has been exposed as women and men have bravely come out of the shadows to express “me too” across our social media platforms. ...
As reported in the Daily Texan’s Oct. 24 cover piece, the University of Texas was named the most improved university in undergraduate voting turnout in the country by the ALL IN Campus Democracy...
This week, we spotlight two continuing struggles that have made headlines recently: The ongoing devastation in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria, and the ongoing racial animus right here at UT following...
Early Saturday morning, a neo-Nazi rally by the group Patriot Front took place on the South Mall, an area highly frequented by students at the University of Texas at Austin. On Monday, students returned...
On Sept. 20, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, wrecking homes, businesses, roads and bridges. It shredded millions of trees and destroyed Puerto Rico’s electrical power grid. Almost two months...
With the end of the semester rapidly approaching, we wanted to feature a diverse array of topics that are important to consider, but all too easy to forget, at both the national and local levels. Specifically,...
