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Graduate students deserve comprehensive healthcare

Graduate students deserve comprehensive healthcare

Yliana Roland, Columnist July 17, 2021
Columnist Yliana Roland argues that UT Grad School should delay the switch from UT Select to Academic Blue until full details are clear.
All students deserve true orientation to campus

All students deserve true orientation to campus

Yliana Roland, Columnist July 5, 2021
Columnist Yliana Roland advocates for an optional, modified version of orientation to ease the transition to campus in the fall.
Let’s cut the cost of unpaid internships

Let’s cut the cost of unpaid internships

Yliana Roland, Columnist June 24, 2021
Columnist Yliana Roland advocates for Texas Career Engagement to expand their summer internship fund into the fall and spring semesters.
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Improve our core understanding of history

Yliana Roland December 3, 2020

Let’s face it: The way United States history is taught isn’t inclusive. Our public education system barely touches on the history of minority groups that do not fit into the white, cisgender,...

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Mandate on-campus quarantine

Yliana Roland November 20, 2020

Despite experts’ predictions of a COVID-19 spike this holiday season, UT will not require students to quarantine upon returning to campus in the spring. Since students will be traveling across...

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Reinstate in-person counseling next semester

Yliana Roland November 10, 2020

It’s 9 a.m. on a Monday morning, and I’m sitting in the rain so my roommate won’t overhear my counseling session. When the counselor asks me about my goals for therapy, I have to scan...

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UT isn’t prepared to handle Halloween

Yliana Roland October 27, 2020

Halloween is a day of camouflage. It’s a holiday built around strangers coming together in celebration. Unfortunately, this previously endearing tradition is now a scary reality for UT students....

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UT professors need to prepare students for life beyond the Forty Acres

Yliana Roland October 13, 2020

Despite the pandemic fundamentally changing the college experience, students are all pushing forward for the same reason: to get the most out of their education and establish a career.  However,...

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Let them sit this one out

Yliana Roland October 11, 2020

“When the Longhorn Band performs, it will be expected to perform The Eyes of Texas,” Douglas Dempster, dean of the College of Fine Arts, said in a memo to Longhorn Band directors Sept. 24.  This...

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Minority-led student organizations make college less lonely for minority students

Yliana Roland September 29, 2020

Computer science sophomore Kennedy Myles comes from a community just like mine: a high school where 99% of the student population was Black and Hispanic. Today, we study at a university where less than...

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Return Miakan-Garza remains

Yliana Roland September 25, 2020

This summer, UT denied a request through the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to return the remains of three Native American ancestors to the Miakan-Garza Band of the Coahuiltecan...

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Texas Football is back, but should it be?

Yliana Roland September 15, 2020

This past Saturday, football season looked markedly different. Tailgating was banned and markers were placed on seats inside Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and outside its gates to promote social...

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