Students show off their Halloween costumes, some students go part time because of virtual instruction and women's basketball assistant coach Elena Lovato fights on after losing her mother.
Students apply to study abroad programs for the spring despite the pandemic, Halloween is still on this year and former basketball rivals become teammates.
UT-Austin professors must actively accommodate students with disabilities in the virtual era, UT tours go virtual and women's swimming and diving welcomes new assistant coach.
The Daily Texan recaps all the unprecedented events of Spring 2020 and looks at what's to come.
Looking Back: Sexual misconduct, softball and Super Tuesday made headlines before coronavirus...
Students can vote in the UT Student Government election starting Monday.
To help students with casting their ballots, The Daily Texan asked the SG candidates running for president and vice president...
Campus accesibility
With little parking available and no alternative options, students with chronic illnesses face additional barriers in order to get to class safely. Despite current accommodations,...
Texas Basketball
Despite missing out on the NCAA tournament with a 21–16 regular season, an invite to the National Invitational Tournament still gave the Texas men’s basketball team some...
Last year, Texas saw an exceedingly divided Republican party during the legislative session. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Joe Straus, both Republicans, were regularly at odds over a range of...
UT System Regent Wallace Hall’s appeal to this dismissal of his lawsuit against Chancellor William McRaven will continue into 2017. Hall filed the lawsuit to access confidential student records for...
Three professors from the College of Liberal Arts have filed a suit against the University and the state of Texas on Wednesday in an effort to block SB 11, commonly known as campus carry, before...
Update: The University has confirmed the safety of all UT students and faculty in France, the university said in a statement Saturday morning.
Eighty-eight students and five faculty members...
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This year brought the usual lineup of festivities to Austin. For two weekends in October, musicians including Eminem, Lorde and Outkast, made their ways to Austin City Limits. A number...
South By Southwest 2015 is nearly over — today is the last major day of the weeklong marathon. Follow us here as we continue to live-blog the best and the worst of what SXSW has to offer. For...
With only a few more days left, we're still live-blogging South By Southwest — the good, the bad and the very, very loud. Follow Daily Texan reporters, photographers and editors as...
More than halfway through the week, we're still live-blogging South By Southwest — the good, the bad and the very, very loud. Follow Daily Texan reporters, photographers and editors...
Over the course of this week, we'll be live-blogging South By Southwest — the good, the bad and the outrageously hip and sweaty. Follow Daily Texan reporters, photographers and editors...
Over the course of this week, we'll be live-blogging South By Southwest — the good, the bad and the outrageously hip and sweaty. Follow Daily Texan reporters, photographers and editors...
Over the course of this week, we'll be live-blogging South By Southwest — the good, the bad and the outrageously hip and sweaty. Follow Daily Texan reporters, photographers and editors...
Over the course of this week, we'll be live-blogging SXSW — the good, the bad, and the outrageously hip and sweaty. Follow Daily Texan reporters, photographers and editors as we post the highlights...
South By Southwest is not easy. It'll take blood, sweat and tears — but mostly sweat — to get through the week. If you want to make it through seven days of SXSW, folow our...
Over the course of this week, we'll be live-blogging SXSW — the good, the bad, and the outrageously hip and sweaty. Follow Daily Texan reporters, photographers and editors as we post the highlights...
Over the course of the week to come, we'll be live-blogging SXSW — the good, the bad, and the sweaty. Follow Daily Texan reporters, photographers and editors here for live coverage of the best...
Welcome to The Daily Texan's election night live blog. Throughout the night, we will provide updates on the campus-wide Student Government elections. To learn more about the candidates, check out Student...
Thanks for watching our live stream of the SG debate. For more coverage, Click here to view our interactive database of all campus-wide candidates and their platforms and follow us on Twitter...
The 84th Texas Legislature is in full swing, and across the aisle, members of the House and Senate are busy filing bills regulating and responding to various issues in higher education. Interested in campus...
Updated Story: University administrators waited more than three hours to notify students of two bomb threats reported in West Campus on Tuesday morning.
When the University finally acknowledged...
This was the year everything conspired against Fun Fun Fun Fest. Death Grips, Death Cab for Cutie and Guided by Voices all canceled; construction forced the festival to take place in a more condensed area...
Welcome to The Daily Texan's Election Night Live Blog. Throughout the night, we will provide updates on the biggest statewide and Austin elections.
8:13 p.m. — The Associated Press has called...
Update (July 13, 8:12 p.m.): A source close to the UT System has confirmed to The Daily Texan both McRaven and Fisher are candidates for the chancellor position.
Original Story (July 12): Naval...
Update (July 6, 11:03 p.m.): Powers' letter in response to Cigarroa's request for his resignation was obtained and published by the Austin American-Statesman on Sunday.
In the...
As of Wednesday afternoon, 100 percent of precincts had reported their statewide election results from Tuesday's primary runoff election. The results are posted below.
Republican Primaries
Lieutenant...
Myles Turner, the No. 2 ranked basketball recruit in the country according to ESPN, announced that he will attend The University of Texas to play basketball for Rick Barnes and the Longhorns, on Wednesday.
“There...
Updated (6:18 p.m.): Earlier Wednesday, geography senior Sydney Dwoskin, one of the protest leaders, said she felt the sit-in was an important component of students' efforts to halt Shared Services...
Scroll down to read our liveblog, which was updated throughout the day.
Update (6:17 p.m.): In his speech Thursday night at the Civil Rights Summit, former president George W. Bush focused...
Read recaps of Wednesday's events by scrolling down here. Click here for the liveblog of Thursday's events, which include addresses by President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush.
Updated...
Click here for full coverage of the second day of the Civil Rights Summit.
Updated: (8:26 p.m.) For the full story on former President Jimmy Carter's conversation with LBJ Library Director...
Updated (11:07 p.m.): Nine patients are in treatment in the Intensive Care Unit at the Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, and of those nine, three are in critical condition, according...
After a one-year hiatus, Texas heard its name called Sunday evening for a bid in the NCAA Tournament.
The Longhorns, who missed the tournament last season for the first time in the Rick Barnes era,...
Updated (Friday, 7:15 p.m.): Travis County district judges issued a formal arrest warrant Friday afternoon for 21-year old Rashad Charjuan Owens, who has been accused of driving his car through...
As of Wednesday afternoon, 99.95 percent of precincts had reported their election results from Tuesday's primaries. The results of the elections are posted below.
Republican Primaries
Governor
Greg...
Update at 4:50 p.m.: The UT System Board of Regents opted to take no action regarding President William Powers Jr.'s employment situation Thursday afternoon, though UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa...
Editor's Note: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, we decided to reproduce the front page of The Daily Texan that ran the following day, on Nov. 23,...
UT alumna Karen Nyberg is set to launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:31 p.m. CDT today.
Nyberg attended graduate school at The University...
About 8,300 students will graduate from UT this weekend, and The Daily Texan is trying to tell their stories. We've been talking to graduates on Twitter with the hashtag "#UTgrad." We created...
Showtime for the UT Class of 2013 commencement is drawing nearer. Parents are coming into town, graduation portraits are going up on Facebook and books for the class you hated are meeting your friend,...
An explosion rocked the renowned Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon, with the aftermath affecting the city and extending to the UT campus.
As of press time, three people were killed — including an...
Originally printed on Saturday, Feb. 1, 1913 - The Texan
Regulars scored 3-to-0 over Scrubs; Game seems destined to become regular sport.
The first exhibition of soccer football ever given by a Southern...
Original date of publication: Nov. 19, 1963
Integrated athletics at Texas became a token reality Monday with the Athletic Council’s adoption of the Board of Regents edict to “remove all...
This weekend UT will welcome the ACL for policy nerds, the Texas Tribune Ideas Festival. By bringing in leaders in the fields of race and Immigration, law and order, trade and transportation, public and...
Editors Note: The following is a collection of spring break activities for students who will be in Austin and don’t have SXSW plans.
Rodeo Austin
Since 1938, the Star of Texas Fair and Rodeo,...
Often, smaller South By Southwest events can get overshadowed by their bigger, crazier peers. To make sure you don’t miss out on any of these more intimate events, here are our critics’ picks...
Editor’s Note: With hundreds of Americans setting up camp as early as six days before the third installation of the Twilight saga, it’s inarguable that our culture is spellbound by vampires....
