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Just because it’s legal to go out doesn’t mean it’s safe

Yusuf Shafi May 8, 2020

After a short month and a half lockdown, Texas is steadily reopening businesses. First, retail stores and movie theaters, and now barbershops, salons and gyms. While Gov. Greg Abbott might not care about...

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If you can, tip essential workers

Yusuf Shafi April 27, 2020

Editor's note: If you are a UT student who needs financial assistance, apply for emergency funding here.  With my job in the food service industry designated as essential business, I am still...

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UT must establish dialogue about housing with transfer students

Yusuf Shafi April 23, 2020

State law dictates that 75% of of first-year in-state students must be automatically admitted into UT. These prospective freshmen are high schoolers who rank in the top 6% of their respective schools.  I...

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If you can, request mail-in ballot and vote

Yusuf Shafi April 14, 2020

On July 14, several key runoff elections will be happening in Travis County.  Unfortunately, COVID-19 will limit thousands of students' ability to go to the polls. Now more than ever, students...

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Don’t do it for the résumé, do it because you care

Yusuf Shafi April 2, 2020

Editor’s note: This column was written before the closure of the UT campus due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Its content may or may not reflect the current reality of student life on campus. We believe...

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UT needs to rework its nicotine addiction programs

Yusuf Shafi February 27, 2020

In December 2019, the Trump administration signed a spending package into law raising the purchase of tobacco age to 21. A few months earlier, Texas abolished the previously existing grandfather clause,...

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