Gov. Rick Perry has never been shy about singing Texas’ praises — not least since his presidential campaign a few years ago. Perry has spent the past few years traveling around the country...
Horns Down: Stealth dorm vote to proceed without data
On Wednesday, The Daily Texan reported that an economic study assessing the impact of the “stealth dorm” ban on area housing affordability...
The legality of Austin’s single-use plastic bag ban — and that of other similar policies throughout the state — may soon be facing a formal opinion from Attorney General Greg Abbott’s...
Horns Down: $55,000 worth of MacBooks still missing
On Tuesday, The Daily Texan reported that UTPD has yet to make an arrest in the case of the $55,000 worth of new Apple MacBooks that were stolen...
Texas has been at the forefront of the 2016 presidential election for some time now — not only because our Republican-dominated state holds the second highest number of electoral votes, but also...
“If Wallace Hall has been pushing Chancellor Cigarroa to do something that isn’t in the UT System’s best interest — which is what Mr. Foster’s email says — it warrants...
Editor’s Note: The 2014 Texas primary election occurred Tuesday, March 4. On Thursday, we hit the West Mall and asked students whether they had voted in the elections. Below are some of the responses.
Noah...
Voters across the state turned out Tuesday to vote in elections at the federal, state and local levels. The results weren’t unexpected — state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, and Attorney General...
Eleven film projects by UT students, faculty and alumni will be featured at this year’s South By Southwest Film Conference and Music Festival, a notable achievement considering the high number of...
On February 19, the Graduate Student Assembly passed legislation asking that a GSA member be included in all conversations involving tuition on campus. The resolution comes after graduate student representation...
Horns Up: UT Nearing eight-year fundraising goal
On Monday, UT President William Powers Jr. announced that the University reached another major fundraising milestone, raising $2.75 billion in the Campaign...
Starting this April, students’ course registration time will be based on their level of degree completion, rather than strictly their classification as a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior. The...
Horns Up: Texas ban on gay marriage struck down
Change may come to Texas more quickly than expected: On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Orlando L. Garcia for the Western District of Texas, in San...
Editor’s Note: The college-specific representatives were judged based on their responses to the Daily Texan Candidate Questionnaire. The response rate for each college is included below. We have...
Student Government elections at UT have never drawn a large turnout, and this year’s competition for Student Body president and vice president will likely be no exception. Presidential candidates...
Editor’s Note: Eighty-two percent of University-wide representatives responded to the Daily Texan Candidate Questionnaire. We judged the candidates based on both their performance in the Monday...
Horns Up: Texas moves up in health rankings
According to a Gallup and Healthways poll, Texas ranked 21st in the nation for state well-being in 2013, moving up six spots from 2012. The ranking judged...
Last Thursday at 10:45 a.m., a 24-year-old woman named Amanda Jo Stephen was arrested at the intersection of 24th and San Antonio streets for, as she screamed during her arrest, “crossing the street.”...
Last Thursday at 2:30 a.m. the Austin City Council took an initial vote to limit the number of unrelated adults that can live together in a single-family zoned property. Since 2002, that number has been...
Horns Up: Cigarroa bans cigarettes in UT System buildings
On Wednesday, the Daily Texan reported that all UT System administrative buildings, parking lots and outdoor areas will be smoke and tobacco...
Horns Down: Abbott Appears with sexist rockstar Nugent
Greg Abbott, attorney general and gubernatorial candidate, faced criticism Tuesday for his choice to appear with aging rocker and tea-party...
Student Government’s latest move to improve student life at UT is a campaign for two-ply bath tissue on campus. And no, they are not joking.
McCombs student representatives Liam Woolley-Macmath,...
In Texas, the gender pay gap is still in full force. Women in Texas made 70 cents for every dollar that men made in 2011, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Women working...
Horns Up: Austin named fastest-growing city in U.S.
On Monday, Forbes named Austin the fastest-growing city in the nation for the fourth year in a row, citing both the city’s 2.5 percent population...
“We have students living in apartments here [in North Campus]. It’s just that when you get a group of unrelated adults together in a super duplex, the problems multiply--you get a lot of garbage...
Horns Down to City Council
Last Friday at 2:30 a.m., the Austin City Council made a 6-1 initial vote to limit the number of unrelated persons allowed to live in a single-family home, an attempt to crack...
Editor’s Note: Over the past few months, this editorial board, as well as a number of guest columnists, have offered their opinions on Shared Services, the University’s plan to consolidate...
“Darwin’s Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection has been proven. It’s been reproduced many times over. There is no debate that natural selection occurs. Let’s at least get that...
Horns Up: Texas beats California in tech production
In 2012, Texas companies shipped out more than $45 billion in technology, including semiconductors and computers, outperforming California for the...
In an ongoing effort to reshape high school curriculum in Texas, the State Board of Education has voted to eliminate algebra II as a graduation requirement starting next year. Instead, Texas high schools...
Horns Down: Texas fracking industry wastes water
Late last month, researchers at UT’s Bureau of Economic Geology published a study about the source and fate of water used in the hydraulic fracking...
Since October 2013, one of the most contentious administrative issues on campus has been Shared Services — an initiative that will centralize the University’s finance, human resources, procurement...
Horns Up: Texas Environmental Groups to fight Exxon over Clean Air Act
In a federal trial set to begin Monday, environmentalist groups will face off in court against Irving-based oil giant...
On Nov. 20, 2013, Bastrop County Sheriff’s deputy Randy McMillan used a Taser on 17-year-old student Noe Nino de Rivera in the hallway of Cedar Creek High School. The teenager then fell to the ground,...
“Yes. And state government should be sensitive to private property owners — including governmental, education, religious, health care and other institutions — to determine whether to...
Horns Up: University tries to keep us informed about snow
Last week, the joy of the year’s second snow day was slightly hindered by the University’s apparent inability to let us know ahead...
Horns Up: Civil rights group asks AISD to fundraise for low-income schools
The Texas Civil Rights Project is pushing the Austin Independent School District to fundraise for its schools with low-income...
In any given semester, a student’s class schedule will often include courses with varying degrees of difficulty and class work. Some classes just require more effort, more work and more time —...
Horns Down: Texas households are financially insecure
A report released Thursday by the Corporation for Enterprise Development, a national non-profit focused on alleviating poverty, said that...
Editor’s Note: Ramey Ko, UT law lecturer and former candidate for the Texas House, is now running for Travis County treasurer against incumbent Dolores Ortega Carter. The Daily Texan editorial board...
Horns Up: Mack Brown's twitter education
Former head football coach Mack Brown is slowly getting the hang of things on Twitter (emphasis on “slowly”). Brown started exploring some of...
Gov. Rick Perry — a staunch conservative — recently told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that he supports the decriminalization of marijuana. Perry explained...
A year after UT began rolling out nine Massive Online Open Courses, the results are in:
Completion rates for the classes, which offer anyone with Internet access free online courses from high-ranked...
Horns Up: Texas leads nation in job growth
According to state-by-state data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Texas lead the nation in job growth in 2013 with 252,400 new jobs...
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a two-part series on transportation issues that Longhorns should pay attention to this semester. Read the first installment here.
On Sunday, Capital...
Horns Down: Lieutenant governor candidates all for creationism in schools
At a televised debate in Dallas on Monday night, the four Republican candidates for lieutenant governor — state Sen. Dan...
Editor’s Note: On Monday, this newspaper published a news article that, because of an editorial error, incorrectly used the term “pro-abortion” instead of “pro-abortion rights”...
Horns Down: Abbott puts blind faith in charter schools
In an editorial on Friday, we reported that Texas’ largest charter school network, Responsive Education Solutions, teaches both an anti-evolution...
At 11:29 a.m. Sunday, officials at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth discontinued the life support of Marlise Munoz, a brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman who had been kept breathing for two months...
Horns Up: University recasts ‘In The Heights’ Musical
In November of last year, the College of Fine Arts promised to recast its upcoming production, “In the Heights” —...
According to a recent report by Slate, Texas’ charter schools have a serious problem. The state’s largest charter program, Responsive Education Solutions, is teaching an extremely suspect curriculum...
Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct...
Editor’s Note: To the average Longhorn, it may seem like Capital Metro is constantly running late, leaving students steaming and wondering if they’ll get to their destination on time. However,...
Horns Down: Winter Storm Watch for Austin
On Thursday, the National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Watch for much of Central Texas, with significant snow and ice accumulation possible into Friday...
In a series of tweets on Tuesday, state Sen. Wendy Davis took to task critics who have, as of late, questioned the veracity of details in her rags-to-riches personal story, including the date of her first...
Horns Down: Administration can't take fall for TSM
On Tuesday, The Daily Texan reported that several prominent administrators have denied making the final decision to bring Texas Student Media’s,...
Horns Down: Davis' rags to riches story bends the truth
The Dallas Morning News reported Saturday that the story of Sen. Wendy Davis’ rags-to-riches rise to the top of Texas politics...
Horns Down: Texas failing in healthcare measures
Texas is sinking to the bottom in measures of national health care quality according to a study by the Dallas-based American College of Emergency...
On Jan 10, state Rep. Scott Turner, R-Frisco, announced via Twitter that he would challenge Rep. Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, for the position of Speaker of the House, which the latter has held since 2009....
Daily Texan Editor Willie Morris once wrote, “The Daily Texan is bigger than any one man.”
But it took only one man, President William Powers Jr., to make a major decision about the future...
On Thursday, state Sen. Wendy Davis, the Democratic frontrunner in the upcoming Texas gubernatorial election, unveiled her education policy.
Davis’ proposals include: 1) guaranteeing the...
Horns Up: Oklahoma's gay marriage ban overturned
On Tuesday, Federal Judge Terence C. Kern struck down Oklahoma’s ban on same-sex marriage. Though the decision does not immediately take effect...
Following UT politics is hard, but it’s often the most difficult things that are worth doing — or in this case, worth watching. Below is part two of the Daily Texan editorial board’s...
Editor’s Note: Tryouts for opinion and all other Daily Texan departments are currently underway and will continue until Friday, Jan. 30. Apply online at dailytexanonline.com/employment or walk into...
Mack Brown is entering retirement with a newfound hobby: exploring Twitter. Since leaving the Longhorns, Brown has taken to tweeting near-poetic questions to his audience: “Broncos or Chargers &...
Following UT politics is hard, but it’s often the most difficult things that are worth doing — or in this case, worth watching. Below is the Daily Texan editorial board’s guide to the...
Horns Up: UT changes intellectual property rule
On Thursday, The Daily Texan reported that the UT System will revise its Intellectual Property (IP) Policy to clarify its language on the ownership of...
Remembering Nelson Mandela
“He no longer belongs to us. He belongs to the ages.”
— U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking on the death of Nelson Mandela on Thursday
The...
Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board publishes a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct submissions...
On Nov. 14, Bev Kearney, former University of Texas women’s track coach, filed a wrongful termination suit against the University on the charge of gender and race discrimination — the latest...
Horns Down: Time to shine a light on justices' finances
Texas is consistently ranked in the bottom 10 states for mental health spending per capita, but we can now add another low...
Horns Down: Texas' poverty-by-county numbers too high.
An interactive feature published in the Texas Tribune on Tuesday highlights the number of children in poverty in each state county, as well...
Horns Down: No funding, no research
On Monday, The Daily Texan reported that ongoing federal budget cuts are having a negative impact on University researchers in terms of grant cancellations, project...
“Today I think many journalists are independent of their bosses and editors, but not of the newsroom. An independent person thinks for himself or herself, even if the world thinks differently.”...
As thousands of students prepare to fly home for the holidays once again, a business deal occurring this month could have a major effect on America’s airline industry for years to come. Less than...
Horns Up: Texas national guard grants same-sex benefits
Last Tuesday, the Texas National Guard announced that it would begin offering marriage benefits to same-sex couples, in accordance with the Pentagon’s...
Last Tuesday, the Obama administration proposed a new set of rules that would crack down on the use of “dark money,” or anonymously donated money, in political elections.
Though the...
Horns Down: Voter ID yet to prove its value
Yesterday, the Dallas Morning News reported that thousands of voters had to sign affidavits or cast provisional ballots in the Nov. 5 election — the...
“It’s an intersection of being [non-traditional] students, being older and being transfer students. They have the same issues as other transfer students adjusting to this campus, but many also...
Horns Down: ZBT replaces lewd mural with... another lewd mural
On Friday, the Daily Texan reported that the fraternity Zeta Beta Tau, commonly known as ZBT, painted over lewd murals depicting...
On Tuesday of last week, Student Government passed a joint resolution with the Senate of College Councils approving a vote of “no confidence” against Regent Wallace Hall, who is currently under...
Horns Up: Bush paintings are ‘flying off the shelves’
Former President George W. Bush is selling his artwork on a limited-edition Christmas ornament, which, according to a shop assistant...
Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board publishes a selection of tweets and online comments culled from The Daily Texan’s website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct...
Editor’s Note: Fifty years ago Friday, while traveling in a motorcade through downtown Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was shot from a sixth-floor window. Kennedy was immediately rushed to Parkland...
Horns Up: Houston mayor offers benefits to same-sex spouses of city employees
Houston Mayor Annise Parker announced on Wednesday that marriage benefits for city employees would now be offered to those...
Horns Down: Perry's latest conflict of interest
AAA Texas, a subsidiary of the Automobile Club of Southern California, is currently in negotiations to receive an economic development funding grant...
Horns Up: Student District finally finalized
On Monday, the Austin Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission approved a new district map of Austin that includes a district in which 45 percent of...
Editor’s note: This is the third editorial in a series covering the lasting impact and future outlook of the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas, or SWIFT, which was established in a statewide...
Horns Down: Young Conservatives mistake hatred for discussion.
Every time a national news network pulls a stock photo of the UT Tower to illustrate an article on the thoughtless actions of the Young...
Horns Up: More Texas women in agriculture
According to an article published by the Texas Tribune on Nov. 15, the changing face of the farming industry in Texas is trending toward a more feminine one....
On Nov. 12, Attorney General Greg Abbott gave his second policy speech since filing his candidacy for governor. The 25-minute-long speech, one of his most detailed yet, received a standing ovation from...
Horns Down: New bike share forgot students
On Wednesday, city officials announced that Austin would introduce its first bike-sharing program on Dec. 21. The bike program, officials promised, will benefit...
Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct...
Editor’s Note: Nash Horne is a communication studies senior from Austin who is currently serving as a non-voting member of the UT System Board of Regents, a position to which he was appointed by...
Editor’s Note: On Nov. 5, Texas voters overwhelmingly approved the creation of a permanent fund for water infrastructure projects, as well as a $2 billion initial investment in that fund. State political...
When, in the spring of 2011, the battle first began between UT President Williams Power Jr. and the so-called “rogue regents,” the players, and their motives, at least seemed identifiable:...
Horns Up: Theatre and dance reconsiders guest-casting decision
The University’s theatre and dance department reversed its decision to cast guest actors (instead of students) for nine out of 12...
Horns Down: LBJ Library to start charging admission.
Starting on Tuesday, the LBJ Library will start charging admission for the first time in its 41-year history, according to the Austin American-Statesman....
On Nov. 1, this paper reported on a controversy within the Graduate Student Assembly surrounding the amount of money that the organization spends on social activities — like the nearly $8,500 carnival...
Horns Up: Trans fats a thing of the past
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will begin banning trans fats from American food, nationalizing a movement that has been taking...
