Last week, Texas State’s newspaper, The University Star, found itself in the news; it had published an ill-advised column titled “Your DNA is an abomination.” With lines like, “ontologically...

To better students’ minds, universities must do more than improve healthy minds — they must nurture ill minds back to health. UT has too many ill minds. We kids aren’t alright. Our...

Robert Morrow was a joker, and he was a joke. He was a wild card, and he chaired the Travis County Republican Party. He was, above all, a thorn in the side of the Texan Republican Party. Morrow accused...

Bite your tongue enough, and it will swell. Keep biting it, and it will keep swelling. Eventually, you’ll find that your bloated tongue impedes speaking. Either you’ll stop speaking, or you’ll...

Here, at UT, the president wields an almost imperial power in the Title IX appeals process. His word is final, his power is absolute. Our Title IX appeals process is autocratic. Per chapter 11-805...

Aayah Khalaf’s family is a Longhorn family.  In the late 1980s, Aayah Khalaf’s parents, Ola al-Qaradawi and Hosam Khalaf, earned their master’s degrees at UT. Hosam’s father,...

Gov. Rick Perry beseeched his fellow Texans to pray. It was 2011, and a cataclysmic drought was affecting the state. The one-time “Dancing with the Stars” contestant knew just what to do. He...

Today, the inhabitants of Austin celebrate the original inhabitants of the New World. Instead of honoring Columbus, a genocidal body-snatcher, Austin celebrates the people who first roamed this land. Four...

Hurricane Harvey flooded Harvest Family Church, Hi-Way Tabernacle and Rockport First Assembly of God. After the storm, displaced Texans found shelter at places like Hi-Way Tabernacle, which distributed...