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The Law of the Land
Nearly two decades in, is the Top 10 Percent Law working? In the late 1990s, the legal grounds were shifting beneath UT. The 1996 Hopwood v. Texas decision banned affirmative action in college...
View ArticleThe Way Back: Lady Bird’s Eye View
As the film pops and flickers, a young woman with arched eyebrows, warm eyes, and an ever-so-slightly lopsided smile is tearing into her companion. The man, in a bow tie and cartoonish mustache, is...
View ArticleThe Powers Exit Interview to End All Powers Exit Interviews
The Texas Travesty, Texas Student Media’s satirical paper, doesn’t break a lot of news. Not a lot of real news, anyway. Founded in 1997, the monthly paper is one part The Onion, one part The Harvard...
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Texas State Historical Association Returns to UT
It was a historic day, in more than one sense. UT president Bill Powers was in the Governor’s Public Reception Room at the state capitol Friday morning, the last class day of his tenure as president....
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Bulldozers and Firewalls: What You Missed At This Week’s Regents Meeting
The nine members of the UT System Board of Regents met in Austin this week to move forward an ambitious agenda that included changes to how the governing board governs itself, a send-off for UT-Austin...
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Legislators Weigh Adding ‘Campus Carry’ to ‘Open Carry’ Bill
As the 2015 Texas Legislature sprints toward the finish line, bills allowing licensed gun owners to carry firearms on college campuses seem unlikely to pass. But that doesn’t mean the legislature...
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All About That Base (Funding) and More: Reviewing the 2015 Texas Legislature
On Monday, the Texas Legislature ended its 84th regular session. After 140 days of committee meetings, testimony, debate, amendment, and occasionally, bill-passing, the gavels sounded in the House and...
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TXEXplainer: Confederate Statues on Campus
On Wednesday, UT president Greg Fenves announced the formation of a task force charged with determining the future of the Jefferson Davis statue that overlooks the South Mall from its northwest...
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The Way Back: The Peregrinus
The story of the peregrinus, the mascot and so-called patron saint of the Law School, stretches all the way back to the Roman Empire. Sort of. Around the turn of the 20th century, Eldred James Simkins...
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The Underdogs
A definitive history of Student Government’s offbeat candidates On Feb. 11, 1977, the regents of the University of Texas were being addressed by a UT-Austin student. The regents wore the usual regalia...
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Task Force Releases Recommendations for Confederate Statues
The group charged with making recommendations for the future of Confederate statues on campus released its report Monday, outlining five options for the memorials to Jefferson Davis and other...
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First Impressions
Greg Fenves took office this summer as the 29th president of UT-Austin. We spoke with him about his plans for the university and his emphasis on what he calls “innovating excellence.” Greg Fenves is a...
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What the Buzz is All About
Meet the university’s unlikely student leaders. This spring, Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu delivered a surprising upset, winning Student Government’s top two spots in a runoff election that saw...
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Making History
After more than 40 years of housing America’s historical treasures, the Briscoe Center for American History is preparing for one of its greatest undertakings—one that comes from across campus. On Aug....
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Game On
For a century, UT students have been participating in organized, non-varsity sports. In celebration of 100 years of blood, sweat, and beer-league competition, we look back at how the Division of...
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Trophy Hunters
In an era when everyone has some kind of award on the shelf, the mantle, or in the attic, what is a trophy really worth? In college football, quite a bit. Besides the typical spoils of war, the ancient...
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Letters to Texas
The life and times of celebrated author Shelby Hearon. You can practically smell the kolaches in Shelby Hearon’s 1991 book Hug Dancing, when her heroine visits a fictionalized version of the iconic...
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Sipping From the Well: Understanding the Permanent University Fund
This week, Texas senators have been getting down to business determining how they’ll fund state universities for the next two years. With rising tuition costs and no clear plan to get them under...
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Secrets of Sicily
Each summer, a classics professor leads a crew of volunteers, including UT students, on a quest to uncover the past on a sunny Mediterranean island. The little town of Aidone sits on a hillside in...
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How the Dell Med School Hopes to Transform Health Care
Now with the Dell Med School’s second class of future physicians, brand new buildings, and actual living, breathing patients, there are a few early signs of success. The situation was dire, they were...
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