Editor's Note: This article first appeared as part of the October 1 Double Coverage flipbook.
Under TCU head coach Gary Patterson, the Horned Frogs have defeated Texas in seven of their nine matchups...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the April 13 issue of The Daily Texan.
Every night at 7 p.m., Katie Berger must be inside her apartment in France. If she wants to leave the next morning...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the March 12 issue of The Daily Texan.
Each week Charlie Garcia used to set aside $20 from his serving tips to eat at Fricano’s Deli.
West...
Editor's Note: This story first appeared in The Daily Texan's March 10 print edition.
The Daily Texan’s team of South by Southwest Online reporters have created a list of must-sees for students...
Editor's Note: This story first appeared in The Daily Texan's March 10 print edition.
2020 posed a myriad of questions to people around the world, and the experts speaking at South by Southwest...
“Inbetween Girl’ premiered at South by Southwest 2021 on Thursday as UT alumna Mei Makino’s feature film debut. The film is a coming-of-age story about Chinese-American teen Angie Chen....
Janelle Monáe’s specially created music video for her song "Turntables" played at the beginning of South by Southwest 2021 keynote speaker Stacey Abrams’ conversation with author N.K. Jemisin, highlighting...
With long-term racial and economic disparities brought to light throughout 2020, three creatives and leaders in innovation discussed ever-increasing digital disparities among marginalized communities at...
Editor's Note: This story first appeared in The Daily Texan's February 23 print edition.
On the morning of Feb. 17, Jester 2nd Floor Dining and Kinsolving Dining Hall faced a pizza, scrambled...
Editor’s Note: This story was updated regularly until Sunday, February 22. Information within this story may no longer be up to date.
As inclement weather continues, individuals on campus,...
Editor’s Note: This story was updated regularly until Sunday, February 22. Information within this story may no longer be or up to date.
Freezing temperatures, unsafe road conditions and low power...
PJ Chukwurah couldn’t look away from his phone screen, and his eyes were glued to his results: he was positive for COVID-19.
“I was dying. I had chest pain, coughing and (I) continuously sweat....
It had been over four months since Olivia Espinosa saw her immunocompromised friend. After each receiving two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, they reunited in an embrace.
“I...
At 2 a.m. one night in early March, among the booming bass and flickering lights of a club in London, Alex St. Germain got a call from his mom telling him to book a flight to Hong Kong for that morning.
“She...
Every night this summer, Maryam Khan and her younger siblings would curl up in a corner of their Houston house to confide in one another about how they were feeling about the pandemic.
Now without...
Over the course of a few days, Olga Briceño called her peers and asked them, “Do you think a Black history course should be incorporated into the core curriculum?”
“I wanted...
During the 2016 general election, alumnus Zach Price said he waited three hours outside the Flawn Academic Center to vote.
“There were crazy long lines, which is an awesome show of enthusiasm,...
After walking by the Paul Revere House and the Boston Harbor, Alejandro Neff stopped at a coffee shop to attend his software programming lecture.
“I get my notebook out (and) use my noise-canceling...
After a trip to Target, Camryn Davis came home with two new roommates: Kenny and Lenny.
“I can’t celebrate Halloween in the traditional sense, so I figured it’d be funny to have two...
Instead of using a mannequin, Brian Burpo wrapped his roommate’s leg with a tourniquet to practice applying pressure to a wound during a virtual Stop the Bleed class.
“The virtual training...
Instead of wearing a blazer and slacks, Farzeen Syeda wore a T-shirt and shorts to the 2020 virtual UT Austin Engineering Expo.
“I remember being really stressed and flustered during the real...
Heman Marion Sweatt became the first African American student to attend the University of Texas in 1950. Seventy years after UT’s integration, Black law students walk by his portrait in the Atrium of...
Colin Phillips and Elise Higgins spent eight months planning and fundraising for the construction of a multipurpose community center in Siripudi, India. But after the pandemic hit, their project never...
“Does it Ever End” isn’t just a question the world has been asking for the last seven months. It’s advertising senior AJ Abdullah’s newest indie-pop single.
“(The...
Jordan Blumberg thought she would see her boyfriend two weeks after leaving Austin for spring break in March. Two weeks, however, turned into six months.
“It wasn’t by choice,” said Blumberg,...
During Katelyn Davis’ sociology lecture, her professor asked the class to discuss global beauty standards. Davis turned to the seat next to her, but it was empty. The nearest student sat 10 seats...
Safa Zia slammed her computer shut after her MCAT was postponed for the third time.
“It’s frustrating because I did everything I was supposed to do,” UT alumna Zia said. “I...
William Baltazar always thought the transition to college would come with a packed campus, new friends and student organizations lining Speedway, but he said his move to Duren Residence Hall felt underwhelming.
“I...
Aarya Desai said she was shocked to see entire sections dedicated to the pandemic in her Issues and Policies in American Government class this summer.
The public health sophomore said the class had...
Celine Farhat was finishing a physics lab in her bedroom in Houston when she heard sobs and prayers from downstairs.
“I knew in my heart something bad, something terrible, had happened,” mechanical...
As Norman Wang drove from the Pudong International Airport to his house in Shanghai, the economics junior welcomed the sight of congested traffic, full restaurants and crowded streets, something he’d...
In the spring, Joseph Horak’s design class started the same way every day. His professor, Honoria Starbuck, would greet them by saying, “Good morning, fellow creatives.”
Horak, an...
In the midst of a global pandemic, Alex Seiler said she saw an opportunity to serve.
Seiler, an Austin native and senior at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., started the Austin...
Editor’s note: This story is part of The Daily Texan’s coverage of how coronavirus concerns are affecting UT-Austin. Read the rest of our coverage here.
Like many other Americans right now,...
Jane Fleming found beauty in her darkness.
Fleming, an English graduate student and Rhetoric 306 assistant instructor, published her first full-length novel, “Violence/Joy/Chaos” at age...
Time is the enemy as the Longhorn Run approaches. On April 18, the 5K and 10K run around campus will draw both students and Austinites to race to the finish line.
With around six weeks left, there is...
Marillah King numbered and signed the last 10 boxes. Seven were sold to students outside the University Co-op. The last box she would sell as a Girl Scout was bought by her grandparents.
Last year,...
Jordan Blumberg can answer the question “Where are you from?” in more than three different ways.
“I don’t have a good answer,” said Blumberg, an electrical engineering freshman. “No one...
