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Students must help bring justice to Rodney Reed

Neelesh Rathi November 8, 2019

"Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." The due process clause of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution was intended to ensure that...

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UT cannot continue to exploit, overwork student-athletes

Neelesh Rathi November 5, 2019

Who’s still peeved that we lost to TCU? Who’s hyped to crush Kansas State on Saturday? Who’s frustrated that instead of compensating student-athletes who work so hard in those games,...

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We need hand dryers, not paper towels

Neelesh Rathi October 23, 2019

“People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth....

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The protests are gone, guns aren’t

Neelesh Rathi October 15, 2019

You just turned from Speedway onto 21st Street. The sun’s shining, there’s a nice breeze, it’s a little chilly. You’re passing by the McCombs School of Business on your way to class...

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Let’s not ignore our neighbors

Neelesh Rathi October 3, 2019

“Perhaps the single most significant attribute of homelessness is its visibility.” Joel Blau wrote this in “The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the United States” in 1992 because...

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UT should make racial geography tour mandatory part of orientation

Neelesh Rathi September 12, 2019

“A world which turns out to be one in which those we honor are unworthy … is nerve-(w)racking.” In his 1922 work “Public Opinion,” Walter Lippmann described why people...

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