The musical theatre program in the College of Fine Arts is being put on hiatus because of budget cuts from the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.
Brant Pope, Department of...
State Sen. Judith Zaffirini proposed a bill in November that, if enacted, would update and clarify the legal definition and repercussions of hazing.
Senate Bill 33 amends Texas’ hazing...
Student Government voted unanimously to approve its new Code and Rules of Procedures at Tuesday’s SG meeting.
The code’s content, which the SG Rules and Regulations Committee has been reviewing...
More than 140 physics graduate students have signed a petition voicing their opposition to a possible cut in the department’s teaching assistant positions.
According to Rebecca Roycroft, physics...
The Butler School of Music is discontinuing its music recording technology and music business programs because of University-mandated budget cuts to the school and a deficit in the school’s budget.
Butler...
Students in West Campus now have the option for a gigabit Internet service that, while present in parts of Austin, has not been available in the area for residents to purchase.
Grande Communications...
After a group of Student Government representatives sought his removal, Chris Jordan, SG chief of staff, will be monitored by assembly members for compliance with SG policy and behavior.
At the SG meeting...
Beginning in January, the University will double the amount of time students can watch Netflix on campus or study online.
The University is increasing its default bandwidth allocation, which all off-campus...
For the second year in a row, the UT System delayed sending the University the information needed to form its Tuition Policy Advisory Committee, the group in charge of recommending any tuition changes...
In an effort to find ways to ease transfer students’ social and academic transition to the University, the Senate of College Councils formed an ad hoc committee to address the issue.
The Transfer...
After over two hours of discussion and debate at a meeting Tuesday, Student Government did not approve a bill combining its bylaws and internal rules into one document.
The SG Rules and Regulations...
In an effort to reduce energy consumption on campus, the University has saved more than $15 million by cutting down its energy and water usage since 2009.
In 2009, President William Powers Jr.’s...
The TA Task Force, a group of 22 teaching assistants and academic instructors from the College of Liberal Arts, decided Wednesday to extend its research time for about two months longer than originally...
The Perry–Castañeda Library is no longer the only study spot on campus to be open for all-nighters.
On Wednesday, Student Government President Kori Rady announced in an email to students...
The Austin mayoral race will go into a runoff election between attorney Steve Adler and City Council member Mike Martinez.
At press time, Adler led the eight-man race with 37 percent of the vote,...
This election season’s early voting turnout increased by only 39 votes on campus since the last gubernatorial and midterm election in 2010.
This year marked the start of new changes...
The number of mustaches on campus may increase this November.
Interfraternity Council members are using facial hair to raise awareness about men’s health, especially testicular and prostate cancer,...
The Senate of College Councils passed a resolution at a meeting Thursday requesting the University require the honor code be placed on all course syllabuses. With its passing, the resolution will be submitted...
After entering into its first debate of the school year, the Student Government passed a resolution voicing its opposition to Travis County’s Secure Communities policy in a 24-8 vote at a meeting...
After working to establish a women’s center at the University 10 years ago, Carrie Tilton-Jones will open a women’s center for the city Saturday.
The Women’s Community Center...
The University announced Wednesday that the Jackson School of Geosciences received a $58 million grant to study methane hydrate, a frozen compound that could be used as an energy source.
The U.S. Department...
Francisco Cigarroa, outgoing UT System chancellor, addressed Student Government at its meeting Tuesday and said he had fulfilled his goals in his more-than five years as chancellor.
Cigarroa, who will...
It’s 3 p.m., and Robert Soto is just beginning his day as building controls technician.
As the rest of the University starts to close down, Soto gathers supplies for his shift — a...
Located off campus on Guadalupe sits the School of Information. With its vague name and small enrollment, many students, particularly undergraduates, are left wondering what the program is, if they’re...
The Student Government assembly unanimously gave its final approval to a resolution calling for alterations to the city sound ordinance in its current state.
After officials from the Austin police and...
Students will have to go through additional login steps to access their financial information on the University’s website starting Oct. 27.
Using the mobile app “Toopher,” developed...
Harley Clark, the innovator of the "Hook ‘em Horns" hand sign, died Thursday morning at the age of 78, after fighting pancreatic cancer since February.
Clark graduated from...
Student Government is continuing its effort to make University IDs an acceptable form of voter identification for federal, state and local elections.
SG representatives submitted an issue brief...
The Student Government Assembly approved resolutions at a meeting on Tuesday regarding the city’s proposed urban rail route and opening the Flawn Academic Center on a 24/7 schedule.
The assembly...
With the Austin City Council passing a resolution calling for changes to the city sound ordinance Thursday, students are continuing to work with the city as it looks at possible code amendments.
Members...
Lambda Phi Epsilon is temporarily suspended and under investigation by its national board after a student reported being denied a bid due to his sexual orientation.
Civil engineering senior Diwu Zhou...
Student Government and Interfraternity Council members are working with Austin City Council member Chris Riley to revise the city sound ordinance, which, in its current state, could alter West Campus’...
Students looking for late-night study spots when the Perry-Castañeda Library is packed may be in luck. Student Government representatives proposed two resolutions requesting more late-night study...
The already delayed move-in date for future Pointe on Rio residents has been moved from October to January, according to an email sent to leaseholders Friday.
This is the second time the complex’s...
The College of Liberal Arts established a task force to meet this semester and discuss issues directly affecting teaching assistants and assistant instructors, such as compensation and workload.
At...
Ahead of the Austin City Council meeting Thursday, the Student Government assembly approved a resolution in favor of transportation networking companies at a meeting Tuesday.
“It’s basically...
UT students are using oil from University buildings to create their own biodiesel fuel that will eventually be used in University vehicles.
In 2013, a group of students from Engineers for a Sustainable...
Next week, the owner of JP’s Java, JP Hogan, will close the business he started 13 years ago.
JP’s Java, a coffee shop on San Jacinto Boulevard, is set to close Sept. 24. According to Hogan,...
Chris Riley, a member of the Austin City Council, advocated for more transportation options at Tuesday’s Student Government meeting.
Riley announced his plan Monday to legalize the ride sharing...
Brian Wilkey, Graduate Student Assembly president, appointed architecture graduate student Vance Roper as the organization’s vice president Tuesday after having the seat vacant since August.
On...
Thanksgiving break took a step closer to being one day longer.
The Faculty Council voted to extend Thanksgiving break at a specially called meeting Monday. The new schedule is expected to be implemented...
After being unsure about their housing situation, some Pointe on Rio leaseholders say they have been told they will be without housing after Oct. 15.
Before the start of the fall semester, future residents...
While most students want to work less on Fridays, three Student Government members are pushing to work more.
SG representatives Cameron Crane, Adam Sacks and Tanner Long have composed an SG resolution...
Vincent DiNino, a retired UT band director, died Tuesday night at age 95.
He was with his family members at his home in Bay City after being transferred from St. Luke's Medical Center...
The University will announce the establishment of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies on Wednesday, creating an interdisciplinary program to educate students on Hispanic culture.
Under...
Student Government approved governing document changes for review by an SG committee Tuesday.
Sergio Cavazos, College of Liberal Arts representative, announced SG’s completion of the governing...
Student Government members will review their updated governing document at the SG meeting Tuesday.
The governing document has been in the revisal process since May to remove contradictions and add...
With tailgates at UT football games currently spread across various parking lots around Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, leaders from one student organization have proposed a single student tailgate...
Members of Student Government met Wednesday to discuss the handling of interview notes for external and internal appointments.
The meeting was called by the Rules and Regulations Committee to...
A pilot program of Safe Ride will begin Thursday after being postponed last week.
Safe Ride is a student driving service that provides users with rides home from downtown Austin. According to an email...
Players is closing down after 33 years of feeding the UT community’s late-night burger cravings.
The University purchased the restaurant in 2012 for University expansion from owners Carlos Oliveira...
David Villarreal has stepped down as Graduate Student Assembly president five months into his term, according to an email from the organization Tuesday.
With Villarreal’s decision, Vice President...
Anti-sexting flyers using an unsanctioned version of Student Government’s logo were hung across campus Tuesday.
The flyers read “Respect your body. Stop posting boobs on unseen”...
Tuesday, at the first Student Government meeting of the school year, the SG assembly confirmed internal and external positions and men’s athletic director Steve Patterson discussed issues facing...
With one day before the start of UT’s 2014 football season, sales of “The Big Ticket,” the University’s new, higher-priced ticketing plan, are down in comparison to the previous...
Over the summer, the Perry-Castaneda and the Fine Arts libraries received a $125,000 upgrade.
In June, two new media labs, which include 25 Mac workstations total, opened in both libraries. Digital...
After a new apartment complex in West Campus delayed its opening and was unable to open in time for the fall semester, ongoing construction on the Pointe on Rio leaves residents unsure of their housing...
The Safe Ride and UTexas app initiatives launched by Student Government President Kori Rady are being delayed by at least a week.
In an email to The Daily Texan on Aug. 4, Rady said both projects would...
Student Government representatives and advisers, including representatives from the Office of the Dean of Students, reviewed the tentative SG governing document at a meeting Tuesday.
SG assembly speaker...
With President William Powers Jr. set to leave his position in June 2015, Paul Foster, UT System Board of Regents chairman, is in the process of forming a search committee to find candidates to replace...
A new University website and accompanying student portal is tentatively scheduled to launch this winter.
The utexas.edu redesign began in 2013. Since then, UT has teamed up with Springbox, a local...
Student Government and a group of administrators will reexamine SG’s governing documents Tuesday because of the Office of Legal Affairs’ decision to not allow the release of interview...
The University announced it passed its goal to raise $3 billion in eight years on Tuesday with a $50 million donation from the Livestrong Foundation to the Dell Medical School.
The donation will...
Instead of the usual highly designed Broadway stage, “War Horse” will only rely on lighting, actors, a few key props and puppets to depict its story.
The theatrical adaptation of “War...
A mob of people stumble from bar to bar, their faces illuminated by neon lights. DJs blare their newest playlist, testing it on the crowds. Bands turn up their amps, drawing from the crowd’s energy...
Clothing patterns, scraps of fabric, garment bags and completed outfits fill the design studios of the second floor of Gearing Hall. Students sit at sewing machines and mannequins, perfecting the collections...
After receiving a late night text, UT theatre and dance assistant professor and playwright Kirk Lynn looked at his phone expecting to see a message from a family member or friend. Instead he saw a text...
With a Superman tie around his neck, a white button down shirt, black slacks and wire-framed glasses, radio-television-film senior Peter Jiang reaches into his backpack and pulls out two miniature plastic...
There are not many opportunities to see hula hooping and an a capella performance at the same event, but Texas Revue will make that happen this weekend when it brings the different talents of UT together...
While pursuing a psychology degree, Wendell Jones, a member of UT’s first gay student organization, was told by his adviser he should not pursue the degree since being gay made him unfit to give...
Most classical music concerts are fairly similar: Audience members go to a large music hall and listen to a full orchestra perform. But the Austin Cultural Campus Concert Crawl is making the experience...
There are not many events where a new video game design and a watercolor painting will be showcased in the same exhibition, but this Friday, the Visual Arts Center will be filled with sculptures, paintings,...
Lavaca Street Bar seems like a standard sports bar at first glance. Most of it is occupied by friends sitting around crowded tables, talking over each other and watching March Madness, but around the corner...
Ballroom dancing can take a lifetime to master, but three UT students have learned it in only a few months. These students will be judged tonight on their newly acquired skills at the second-ever “Dancing...
South By Southwest has grown from a 700-person festival in 1987 to one of the largest festivals in the world. This year, SXSW featured more than 2,000 musicians and drew celebrities and thousands of guests...
With thousands of people coming from around the world to attend South By Southwest, there’s no doubt they will leave behind a lot of trash — not to mention the gas required to fly and drive...
Zines, do-it-yourself magazines that were at peak popularity in the ’70s and ’80s, are regaining popularity at UT and across the nation.
The cultural reasons for this resurgence, as...
Standing 100 feet high in rural Cameroon is a radio tower built by exiled journalist Issa Nyaphaga and his team of supporters.
The tower is an unexpected sight in Nyaphaga’s village Nditam, as...
Brightly colored posters, paintings and photos from around the world cover the white walls of educational administration graduate student Julie Westerman’s South Austin apartment. Her shelves are...
A day before “Wicked”’s return to Bass Concert Hall, 13 semi trucks drove up to the theater. In the trucks were all the contents necessary to bring the show to cities nationwide: 10 tons...
“Dead Man’s Cell Phone” is one of the few plays where audience members can expect to hear a phone ringing and not be annoyed by it.
The comedy, which opened Friday and is running...
For soldiers during World War I, diary entries, poetry, photos and drawings served as an escape from the horrific events around them. Today, these personal accounts allow insight into the reality of life...
Josh Ronsen has seven shoeboxes packed to the brim with mail, but he’s not a hoarder. He’s not storing old bills, either. Ronsen is a mail artist. He receives a piece of art in the mail and...
For their senior spring break in 2012, UT studio art alumnae Ally Acheson-Snow, Karina Eckmeier, Maia Schall, Allie Underwood and Chantal Wnuk used their undergraduate professional travel grant to travel...
In 1975, a group of homesick Brazilian exchange students at UT started one of the biggest indoor Carnaval celebrations outside of Brazil.
The students missed Brazil’s pre-Lent tradition of...
Words come to life in Ballet Austin’s and Pollyanna Theatre Company’s co-production of “Sprites.”
The production incorporates acting and ballet to tell the story of a young...
In their little shop on South First Street, Italian family Leo Silvestrini, Francesca Ferrarese and Marco Ferrarese shared — in thick Italian accents — the story of how they left their fast-paced...
For the past 20 years, James Magnuson has been waking up early to write before coming into work as the director of the Michener Center for Writers.
Magnuson’s newest of nine novels, “Famous...
Many plants found in common retailers such as Lowes and Home Depot are actually invasive species that pose a threat to native Texas plants.
This weekend, the Watershed Protection Department is...
“American Idiot” is no longer just the name of Green Day’s Grammy-award-winning album. Green Day’s leading man Billie Joe Armstrong and a Broadway team including director Michael...
Set in the 1950s, “MEMPHIS” tells the story of disc jockey Huey Calhoun’s decision to break racial boundaries by sharing rhythm and blues music with the world. Calhoun also falls in love...
Katie Bender left the world of acting to be a playwright. After being on stage for most of her life, the third year graduate student took control of her creative process, which resulted in “The Fault”...
Sugar, spice and everything nice — that’s what pumpkin spice lattes are made of. Since Starbucks revealed the now-popular fall flavor in 2003, the chain has sold more than 200 million pumpkin...
Rose Anderson left Austin for the West Texas desert of Marfa, all for the sake of her art.
“When I moved here, I made a very deliberate choice to pack my glue gun and screen printing machine...
A piece of vaudeville is coming to the Bass Concert Hall in the form of “Chicago.” Inspired by real events, the play-turned-motion-picture is centered around the fictional murder trials of...
The entire design class of 2015 will be published authors.
What started out as a class assignment for “Images in Communication” has evolved into a semester-long project to publish a book,...
Yesterday’s popular music is tomorrow’s art music. Or at least that’s what Billy Traylor, the founder and artistic director of the Austin Baroque Orchestra and Coro Settecento, believes....
At Fun Fun Fun Fest, Austin graffiti artist Nathan Nordstrom makes a performance out of something usually done in secret.
Graffiti is based on tags and spray paint wording, but street art has...
Hula hooping isn’t just for schoolchildren anymore. The school-yard pastime has evolved into an entire hooping culture that provides exercise and an outlet for artistic expression to those who try...
They may not catch ghosts like the famous ghost-busting trio, but the workers at Austin Ghost tours know the history of all things haunted in Austin and offer a peek into the many supposedly haunted buildings...
