How do you write about the end? How do you encapsulate four years in a place that gave you every high and low you never expected? I’m not entirely sure, but I know it wasn’t perfect. My time...
Editor’s note: This story is about sexual harassment and misconduct. It contains graphic images and descriptions.
Composition professor Dan Welcher resigned on March 2 shortly before the University...
The allegations of sexual misconduct by composition professor Dan Welcher detailed in an article by VAN Magazine earlier this semester were shocking to some in the Butler School of Music. But for others...
Update 9:22 p.m.:
Composition professor Dan Welcher said in an email to The Daily Texan that he has not yet heard from the Office for Inclusion and Equity, the College of Fine Arts or the Butler...
The 86th legislative session ended Monday, and UT got a modest increase in funding, mirroring the last legislative session two years ago.
The University received a 4% raise in funding from the state...
Whenever there's a lull on the Texas House floor, state Rep. Mary González immediately pulls out her textbooks to cram in some last-minute studying. Just like any other UT student, she has finals...
Editor’s Note: The names of students in this article were changed for fear of alienating their managers.
It’s affected every corner of campus, and few people have anything good to say about...
With the Texas Legislature just weeks away from passing a bill to raise the age limit for tobacco purchase and consumption to 21, the United States Senate is preparing to propose the same measure...
Students are unlikely to see any benefits and could even be hurt by the state’s proposal to counterbalance the property tax rate cap with an increase in the state sales tax, experts say. However,...
MJ Hegar, the Air Force veteran who narrowly lost a Congressional race in Round Rock last year, announced Tuesday she would challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in 2020.
A previously unknown...
UT President Gregory Fenves recently approved a policy some students have said would hurt their voice and influence on the Intercollegiate Athletics Council.
Current and former members of the Council...
UT President Gregory Fenves is reviewing a proposal that some say would hurt student representation on the Intercollegiate Athletics Council, one of the most powerful advisory committees on campus.
Students...
With the Texas Capitol as his backdrop, former Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke greeted a crowd of thousands Saturday night in Austin to officially launch his bid for president.
“This democracy...
State Rep. Angie Chen Button dabbed away tears as Shawn Cumberland described how his son Nicky died from injuries sustained in a car crash as he left a Texas Cowboys initiation event.
“I’m...
Former Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke told an El Paso TV station on Wednesday that he is officially running for president.
The announcement came via text, according to the station. O’Rourke...
Severe thunderstorms and tornado warnings caused UT to cancel its spring commencement in 2015, but students gathered the next day to host a makeshift ceremony.
Despite it being entirely unplanned,...
Every time Tony Hernandez went to get STD testing by himself, he got nervous and his hands would sweat. Sometimes it even felt like he was about to receive a death sentence.
“But the Q made me...
Texas lawmakers in 2017 spent weeks fighting over various iterations of the so-called “bathroom bill.” But weeks into this year’s legislative session, there has been barely a whisper...
One after another, Democrats are launching their bids for the Party’s 2020 nomination. But 2018 Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke is still mulling whether to run as he makes his way around the...
Correction: This story has been updated to accurately reflect the University's enrollment numbers. The Texan regrets this error.
UT’s enrollment of international students who are first-time...
A bill filed by state Rep. Kyle Biedermann could take away undocumented students’ ability to pay in-state tuition at Texas colleges and universities.
If it passes, the cost of tuition for...
Higher education commissioner Raymund Paredes said he never lost sight of the students he was working to support in his 15 years on the job, even when it meant testifying to lawmakers at the Capitol...
With the United States likely to have one million fatalities from the opioid crisis by 2020, Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a campaign to educate Texans on the dangers of prescription painkillers....
The Dell Medical School unveiled its nearly $300 million plan to remodel Austin State Hospital, the oldest psychiatric facility in the state.
Austin State Hospital first opened in 1861 and has expanded...
The government shutdown could affect federal student financial aid applications and, down the line, federally funded research projects at UT-Austin.
The federal Department of Education oversees...
A federal judge in New York has barred the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, calling the Commerce Department’s decision a “veritable smorgasbord”...
The Drag, UT’s ever-changing food and shopping scene, has lost four more staples over winter break — Moojo, Fat Sal’s, Jamba Juice and Austin’s Pizza. But Kokodak, a new restaurant,...
A federal judge in New York has barred the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, calling the Commerce Department’s decision a “veritable smorgasbord”...
Julián Castro, former Housing and Urban Development secretary, declared his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination Saturday morning.
The former San Antonio mayor made his announcement...
The State Preservation Board voted this morning to remove a Confederate plaque from the Capitol that was placed there 60 years ago.
The six-member board – made up of the governor, lieutenant governor,...
The Drag, UT’s ever-changing food and shopping scene, has lost two more staples – Moojo’s and Austin’s Pizza.
The ice cream sandwich and pizza shops closed over winter break....
UT System Chancellor James B. Milliken laid off approximately 65 employees this week as part of a plan to reduce costs across the 700-person administrative branch that oversees UT-Austin and 13 other institutions.
The...
State Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, was elected speaker of the Texas House of Representatives by a unanimous vote on Tuesday, just hours into the session’s opening day.
Bonnen is replacing...
State Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, has told Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the Senate leader, he wants to give up his chairmanship of the Health and Human Services Committee. This follows an inconclusive...
A group of campus officials released a set of recommendations this week to increase regulations on commercial scooters around campus, including “aggressive” impounding of scooters violating...
A UT student reported a non-stranger sexual assault that occurred at 5 p.m. Sunday, according to a campus-wide safety alert email.
UTPD is actively investigating the incident, according to the...
Speech First, a national group that advocates for free speech on college campuses, filed a federal lawsuit this week accusing UT-Austin of stifling students’ free speech rights.
The lawsuit specifically...
A state legislator filed a bill yesterday which would provide colleges with more information about transfer students with a history of sexual misconduct or violence.
House Bill 524 would require “specific...
Attorney general Jeff Sessions resigned at President Donald Trump’s request just one day after the midterm election.
Sessions’ departure has been forecast by news outlets for months. Matthew...
Austin plans to reach 52 percent renewable energy production by 2021 thanks in part to a solar contract approved by the City Council in October that may also reduce electricity rates.
This latest...
CRIME:
Looking forward
Meechaiel Criner’s trial is set to begin July 9. Criner was indicted by a grand jury for capital murder in connection with the 2016 death of dance freshman Haruka Weiser.
Looking...
Fulfilling a threat made last summer against the Trump administration, Texas has filed a lawsuit to force the federal government to end DACA.
DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is the...
Walking on campus in April, Lori Brown remembered her son Harrison Brown’s first year at UT.
“Harrison had a moped down here,” Lori said with a laugh in the AT&T Center parking...
A year ago today, as students were starting their last week of classes, UT was suddenly robbed of its sense of security. Three people were injured and one was killed in an on-campus stabbing that tore...
The Goodall Wooten is a plain, high-rise dormitory building located on The Drag. It’s known by residents as “The Woo,” and many who pass by it barely even notice it’s there.
Some...
A federal judge in Washington D.C. has ordered the Trump administration to begin accepting applications for DACA, which protects young immigrants brought to the country illegally from deportation, with...
Travis County now has the highest total number of registered voters ever in the county with more than 740,000 people registered.
The county broke its record last month when it surpassed the previous...
Students were sent into a frenzy Tuesday as horror-film-esque rumors circulated — the turtle pond and the BOT greenhouse might be demolished. However, the turtle pond and greenhouse are not going...
As most UT students power walk to class with headphones in their ears and textbooks in hand, finance junior Amie Jean carefully navigates her way through the crowds on Speedway with her sidekick Alfred,...
