With the second semester finally back in full swing, the time is now ripe for new Student Government campaigns to emerge. And as always, these campaigns come with any number of outlandish promises and...
Last November, Sen. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, filed SB 143, which would require the state to develop an online voter registration system. This bill provides a much-needed modernization to our antiquated...
When I first stumbled onto the 40 Acres at the start of 2014, an election was about to occur. After spending three semesters at a smaller university in Boston, the prospect of a real election at a school...
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, took the stage Feb. 7 to debate health care reform. As a low-income American with a pre-existing condition and minimal access to affordable health care,...
UT is set to lead a consortium of research institutions in a five-year study on alcoholism and how the disease changes the brain. This is exciting news, but sadly its importance has been overshadowed as...
Campaigning for campus-wide elections will begin at 12:01 a.m. on Feb. 15. From then until the first round of voting ends on March 2, dozens of students will clamor for your vote in an attempt to ostensibly...
Following the culmination of Super Bowl LI, hundreds of thousands of tourists have left Houston, and with them, the eyes of the nation have as well. The city is already being praised for hosting one of...
The Women’s March that rocked the earth the day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump exhibited the power that individuals — especially women — have to make their voices heard....
The past week has been dominated by discussions of President Donald Trump’s ban on immigrants from seven majority Muslim countries. On Friday, a federal judge placed a nationwide injunction on the...
Do you remember when you decided what to study in college, or picked a career? Perhaps it was in high school, or maybe you still haven’t figured it out. You probably don’t think it was at the...
Following President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban, NYC taxi workers halted rides in protest, as the majority of them are immigrants. Uber responded by lifting surge prices in order to generate more revenue....
This weekend, about 50,000 people descended on Austin for the Women’s March, with millions more joining in similar marches worldwide. Thousands of those who packed downtown were students.
In the...
