Counties across Texas are breaking early voting records, with more than 17 percent of Travis County’s registered voters casting ballots in the first three days of early voting for the Nov. 8...
Student Government heard the first reading of a proposed resolution supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and black students at UT Thursday night.
“The bill itself is really affirmation from...
Austin City Council will negotiate possibly awarding two 12-month company contracts with Concept, Development and Planning and Texas Zero Waste Strategies to promote recycling sustainability efforts Thursday...
Noor Wadi left the Texas Tribune Festival agitated after what she said was a one-sided National Security panel, which urged suspicion and caution of Muslims.
Wadi, a UT law student, stood at the...
Over 500 Austin restaurant employees will receive back wages after an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division revealed employers violated labor and wage laws.
WHD...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard an appeal last Wednesday to reopen a death row inmate’s case from Houston in which a psychologist testified the inmate is potentially dangerous because he is black, prompting...
The flames thickened the already humid air as their warm, orange glow illuminated cheering and smiling faces of students, faculty, alumni and other members of the University community marching toward the...
It was 2 a.m. on a Sunday night, and radio-television-film junior Miguel Salazar had been vomitting at his apartment for the past three hours. After a panicky phone call with his parents, he suspected...
Biology freshman Maher Rahman frantically messaged people in his contact list to vote for him, while Holden Hopkins, Plan II and business honors freshman, had dinner with friends of the same business honors...
Holden Hopkins and Maher Rahman were elected as student government first-year representatives Wednesday night.
“I didn’t believe it at first,” Rahman, a biology freshman, said....
Fossil Free Texas president Matthew Chovanec said he takes UT’s motto, “What starts here changes the world,” very seriously when it comes to combating climate change.
Chovanec,...
The UT Supreme Court broke from past procedures and levied harsher punishments upon this year’s first-year representative candidates for not turning in their campaign spending reports on time. The...
About one in five people report having a disability, and of the types of disabilities, the most commonly reported are invisible and go unnoticed to the human eye, according to the University’s Services...
Two students are reviving the Association of Black Fine Art Students after a lull in activity, decline of membership and lack of on-campus presence.
Art history professor Moyo Okediji started the...
Longhorn Advocates, a mentorship program through Student Government and Texas Exes, is urging students from all over the state to apply to represent the University in legislative work.
The program...
Michael Eric Dyson, an author and professor at Georgetown University, explained Thursday night how President Barack Obama and American society have denied mounting racial tensions.
“We live in...
“On Influence,” an exhibit in the Perry–Castañeda Library, showcases stories written by University faculty, describing the personal experiences that shaped their careers.
The...
Queer People of Color & Allies hosted its annual BLOQ party Thursday night to welcome students to campus on the East Mall.
The BLOQ party theme this year was “Just Keep Dancin’”...
