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The Daily Texan

Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

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Official newspaper of The University of Texas at Austin

The Daily Texan

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UT’s Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory must return ancestral remains

Kaitlin Burns Passafiume October 23, 2019

Imagine your great-grandparents’ graves are upturned, and their remains are unearthed to build a fence or maybe a ticket booth. Official law has validated requests for their reburial, but these requests...

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Humanize, don’t criminalize, the homeless

Kaitlin Burns Passafiume July 8, 2019

“Safety and security don’t just happen. They are the result of collective consensus and public investment.”  SafeHorns, an organization dedicated to ensuring the safety of UT...

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UT’s graduate students deserve summer support

Kaitlin Burns Passafiume June 27, 2019

“It’s practically impossible.”  That’s how Daniel Nourry, an international graduate student in Spanish and Portuguese, describes finding summer work in Austin. Financial...

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A future without Roe v. Wade jeopardizes female students

Kaitlin Burns Passafiume June 25, 2019

Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that gives a woman the right to make decisions about her own body, has been thrown in front of the firing squad in many U.S. states as of late. While this could...

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