In 2017, the CLASE study finally gave specifics on UT’s endemic sexual assault and harassment problem. Despite more than a year and countless student initiatives, UT is struggling to handle sexual...
Red River Rivalry weekend is considered a “red zone” for sexual assault. Between copious amounts of alcohol and engrained traditions, such as sharing a hotel room with your date, sexual assault...
A court reporter is present. The table has microphones for witnesses. All physical evidence has been reviewed and approved before the participants arrive. The person at the head of the table opens the...
I never faced the realities of a Title IX investigation until last semester. Watching a close friend of mine undergo an investigation opened my eyes to ways we can make our Title IX process less traumatizing...
After the Santa Fe school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott announced an initiative to enhance safety in schools throughout the state. Shortly after, he published the School and Firearm Safety Action Plan, which...
The allegations just keep coming.
Although the #MeToo social media campaign is largely over, many more victims have continued to speak out and lodge formal complaints about their experiences with...
SURE Walk’s ridership has increased by almost 500 percent since fall 2016. This semester, they are expected to give rides to approximately 15,000 students.
To keep up with growing demand...
“Every year when I show ‘Prisoners of Silence,’ I get an emotional response from some students,” integrative biology professor James Bull told me after showing a 1993 documentary...
This week, I’ve been treated to multiple phone calls, most sponsored by the Save East Austin Schools Political Action Committee urging me to vote against the AISD 2017 Bond Proposal. They claim...
The #MeToo movement did something astounding. Something that no news article or political candidate has done in at least the last year.
It crossed the lines of cultural identity drawn in the 2016...
When it happened to me at work, I wondered what the hell I had done wrong.
On my first day, an older attorney who shares office space with us made a joke about me stripping off my clothes. The comment...
The rules for shelters contracted with the Office of Refugee Resettlement, laid out in 2014, are quite clear on the matter of access to women’s health care for unaccompanied minors. Victims of sexual...
Texas practices something called student-based funding, meaning districts get money depending on how much they raise from taxes per weighted student. After a series of complicated algorithms determine...
Last summer I studied climate change and human dynamics in Botswana. While the majority of what I did there is relevant to my resume, some of what I learned I’m unlikely to use again. Feel free to...
The Department of Education’s announcement that it will rescind Obama-era guidelines has left colleges struggling to reform sexual misconduct investigations in a lurch. The change comes right on...
In 1960, journalist Vance Packard coined the term “replacement revolution” as a social critique against our then-newfound but false belief in consumerism.
Packard pointed out that our “buy...
Arkaive is a free app that uses geolocation to track your class attendance. Created by two University of Southern California graduates, Arkaive sells itself as simplifying the attendance process, but the...
Arkaive is a free app that uses geolocation to track your class attendance. Created by two University of Southern California graduates, Arkaive sells itself as simplifying the attendance process, but the...
In an effort to reign in executive power and force Congress’s hand on immigration reform, the Trump administration has decided to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy within the...
In an effort to reign in executive power and force Congress’s hand on immigration reform, the Trump administration has decided to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy within the...
While you probably spent the weekend avoiding the rain indoors, for Austin’s significant homeless population, the tropical storm was notably more challenging. According to the Ending Community Homelessness...
“We were going to a show called ‘Get Sexy. Get Consent,’ on campus,” said Spencer Phillips, a high school junior who attends the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders here...
“I didn’t realize people still had a problem with race,” said Tahnee Steele, an African-American woman who graduated from a high school that no longer exists.
“(At Johnston High...
“I am unwilling to close my eyes to needless suffering and deprivation which is not only a curse to the people immediately concerned, but is also a cancerous blight on the whole community,”...
The ‘SURE’ in SURE Walk stands for Students United for Rape Elimination. Originally created in 1982, SURE Walk has, unsurprisingly, seen a huge increase in requests for late-night security...
CodeNext sounds like a business major’s presentation on innovative language in the workplace, but it’s actually Austin’s shiny new “initiative to rewrite our outdated and complicated...
“Once built, it was doomed, sooner or later, to come down,” wrote the historian Donald P. Steury for the CIA’s 2011 publication “A City Torn Apart, Building of the Berlin Wall.”...
The Austin Zoning and Planning Commission recently voted against a zoning change that would allow the creation of both a housing development and a residential treatment center for adults with autism in...
The Texas Legislature recently introduced several bills that allow for blatant discrimination against LGBT people under the guise of religious freedom. But representatives such as Matt Krause, R-Fort Worth,...
Senate Bill 4, which would allow the state to end funding to sanctuary cities, has passed in the Texas Senate. As it goes to the House, Texans are reminded that the law, although it meets the legal minimum,...
Men are afforded a certain amount of privilege surrounding the realities of pregnancy, or the possibility of an abortion. Often, young men are told to do what they want “as long as you don’t...
Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez is following through on her campaign promise to no longer blindly honor all voluntary detainer requests issued by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement for individuals...
The Texas Legislature has a bit of a history when it comes to passing bills that create issues rather than solve existing ones. Last year, the campus carry bill drew a disproportionate amount of attention,...
A new study from Stanford examined grade school through college students’ (in)ability to judge a source’s credibility, including bias in news articles and sponsored content. The results do...
We no longer want the tired and the poor. We no longer accept the huddled masses seeking salvation from circumstance. We have decided we are too tired and too poor and too restricted ourselves to give...
My little sister’s middle school (and my former school) is an anomaly in Austin — it’s a school with demographics representative of all of Austin Independent School District. Wednesday...
Mobility bond isn’t the sexiest name on the ballot tomorrow, but it’s the one that has the most local impact. This bond isn’t perfect, but you should vote for it for the same reason the...
The Young Conservatives of Texas at UT titled their press release about Wednesday’s bake sale “YCT-UT Starts Dialogue on Affirmative Action,” and I laughed. While they were legally within...
This past week, Judge Reed O’Connor clarified that his injunction on the Obama administration’s transgender bathroom order applied nationally. By doing so, he has solidified bathrooms...
A recent letter from Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Speaker Joe Straus to Henry Whitman, the director of Texas’s Department of Family and Protective Services, called the Department’s...
In Travis County, 30 percent of the county jail population suffers from mental illness, compared to only about 18.2 of the U.S. population.
Due to Texas’ and Travis County’s painfully...
The Texas Tribune Festival attempts to showcase the upcoming year’s political zeitgeist, and this weekend Texas Republican leaders stuck to the theme of American individualism. In an attempt to move...
Immunization is recommended by the World Health Organization, the Center for Disease Control, the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and a whole bunch of other experts. Scientifically speaking,...
“A lot depends on wind speed, how far the fire can jump, and where the nearest fuel source is, ” said environmental science lecturer Thoralf Meyer.
My aunt Dawn MacLean, like many Bastrop...
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At the UT Senate of College Council’s recent Conversation on Campus Safety, a panel discussion on pressing safety concerns, I noticed something — most of the questions about safety were asked...
Last week the Texas A&M University System released its proposal to initiate concealed carry in August. It’s about as eager to allow guns as you’d expect, but A&M is only one of the...
Texas could add $202 billion to its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) if it achieved a greater measure of economic gender equality by 2025. A new study by McKinsey & Company identifies six impact zones; “Leadership...
We are hurting our women. Texas’ House Bill 2 — the omnibus law with sweeping restrictions on clinics, doctors and misoprostol pills — undeniably burdens those seeking abortion care....
Whether or not you agree with morality of abortion, House Bill 2 violates the undue burden standard, and cannot be allowed to stand. HB 2, passed in the summer of 2013, is a broad group of restrictions...
The “Moody Skybridge” will have its official dedication March 31, but it’s already open for use. The reason it got built might give you warm fuzzies: The bridge was built to be a physical...
Austin is a haven for new tech and innovation but doesn’t need to be one for companies that work to deceive their customers and employees. Ride-hailing companies that portray themselves as victims...
In Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” Mark Antony spends Caesar’s funeral calling for truth yet spreading animosity. In the 2016 presidential primary, candidates are using Antony-esque...
Death and rape threats are nothing new to female gamers. Women in the entertainment industry are often caught between suffering harassment and ineffective legal options, and end up with no choice but to...
In January of 2016, a city of Austin Employee was put on leave for using the “Judgmental Austin Map” as the backdrop for a presentation. Since the Map’s creation many Austinites have...
Bilingual education gives kids more than just the ability to speak two languages. Despite this, bilingual education programs are not being implemented as numerously or as rapidly as they should be due...
In 1928, east of East Avenue and south of the City Cemetery became the only place “non-Caucasians” could receive utility services when Austin instituted the Koch and Fowler City Plan. In the...
