The Daily Texan

Comics editor says goodbye to beloved basement corner

By Channing Miller - Updated on December 10, 2019 at 9:23 am

After six semesters, six comics editors, three different job descriptions and four sketchbooks, it is finally time for me to say goodbye to my beloved corner of the basement.
Senior designer still doesn't know what she's "even doing here"

By Nila Selvaraj - Updated on December 8, 2019 at 11:44 pm

Through my nine years working on five different yearbook committees, I never once imagined I would eventually defect to newspaper. In fact, the first time Jason realized I was a computer science honors major working in the design department, he asked me, “What are you even doing here?”
Absent-minded director recalls her time at the Texan, feels like home

By Malú Gonzalez - Updated on December 8, 2019 at 11:41 pm

Walking across campus with Spotify on shuffle, I pause mid-step when Jorge Drexler’s “Todo se transforma” starts to play. The song immediately brings up feelings of the love, humor and experiences I left in my hometown of Tampico, followed by the spirit of the phrase, “You gotta start somewhere.”
Comics editor closes (comic) book on time at the basement, grateful for how far she's come

By Lauren Ibanez - Updated on December 8, 2019 at 11:40 pm

If someone had told me that I would be a comics editor, sitting in The Daily Texan basement batting illustration ideas back and forth between the senior staff, laughing until I had tears in my eyes and working next to amazingly driven people, I would not have believed it.
Miraculously, it all turned out fine

By Kendall Jordan - Updated on December 8, 2019 at 11:34 pm

Earlier this semester, I found myself in the precarious position of being the only design staffer present during open house.
Photographer pursued passion at the Texan, owes it all to wife

By Joshua Guenther - Updated on December 8, 2019 at 11:32 pm

I’ve never been good at introductions, highs-and-lows or being put on the spot for that matter. In these situations, the truth became my recurring joke.
I'm sorry, Duke Ellis

By Daniela Perez - Updated on December 8, 2019 at 11:30 pm

Duke Ellis, you 100% do not know who I am, but I’m sorry.
Managing editor refuses to order pizza one last time

By Catherine Marfin - Updated on December 8, 2019 at 11:29 pm

How could I possibly describe how much the Texan means to me in just 360 words?
Long-serving comics artist retires from Daily Texan

By Albert Lee - Updated on August 9, 2019 at 8:44 pm

The Daily Texan runs on its own calendar: A semester to the outside world is a year to our basement office. So, after 18 “Daily Texan years” over the course of seven actual years, I’m finally saying goodbye. After so much time, I don’t know if there are words to describe what this place means to me, but I’ll try.
Editor-in-chief self-indulges one last time

By Liza Anderson - Updated on May 10, 2019 at 12:19 am

Editor-in-chief Liza Anderson says goodbye to The Daily Texan.