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The Daily Texan is launching The Waiting Room, a new series that will focus on how an individual’s identity affects the health care they receive. We'd like to include stories about gender, sexuality, race, religion, class, ethnicity and disability and how these identities are treated differently in medicine.

Over 70 people danced to the blare of pop music in Gregory Gymnasium yesterday, while a neon lit sign that read “For the Kids” stood above them on stage, as a part of the Texas THON annual dance marathon to raise money for Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas.

In the first training in collaboration with the Austin Police and Transportation Departments, 15 Austin citizens were trained Saturday to issue tickets to those improperly parked in accessible parking spaces.

With culturally significant objects like eyelid tape and hair perm products on display, the Museum of Color illustrated the complex nature of colorism during its opening on Saturday.