In case anyone has figured out exactly how college football’s Bowl Championship Series works, there’s a new challenge for puzzle fans: the 2010 Texas gubernatorial race.
The Speedway Project is a plan to completely renovate Speedway Street from Martin Luther King Boulevard to Dean Keeton. In a broad sense, the goal is to transform that area into a “student activity space” on par with the West Mall and Main Mall. Some of the changes include altering the bus circle on West 23rd St. and creating an outdoor amphitheatre, making the area more bicycle and pedestrian friendly and reducing impervious cover so it is more aesthetically and environmentally friendly. Peter Walker, the architect behind the World Trade Center Memorial and the space surrounding the Blanton Museum of Art, will design the project at a cost of $130 million.
Everyone is on their feet, and you’re yelling so loud that your head is starting to hurt. The opposing team has to move the chains deep inside the closed end of Darrell Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. You should be yelling. Everyone else is yelling. LOUD NOISES!
When UT decided to raise tuition 5 percent last year, students were upset. The University Democrats organized Tuition Relief Now! to protest the hike with rallies and lobbying campaigns.
UT students are active. We’re outspoken. And, for the most part, we want to improve the world. But we have a much easier time speaking in unison at football games than we do when it comes to addressing issues of equality on our campus.
It’s an interesting time to be young and gay in America.
Intramural sports can be an absolute joy to participate in. There really is nothing better in the world than getting together with friends and throwing the football around or shooting some hoops. Come to think of it, in my experience here at the University, some of my better memories involve doing those very things.
Fighting for women; Putting pressure on Israel
No Trail of lights; UDems Ride-N-Register; Shami throws his hat into the ring
The petroleum world is at war with itself, and the stakes of the quarrel are high for all of us. The debate concerns the concept of peak oil — the term used to describe a global limit of oil production — its timing, and its implications.
In the shadow of the national buzz over women’s reproductive choices, Austin has its own reproductive battle to fight. In the last month, the Travis County Healthcare District board meetings have been fraught with controversy over abortion.
Obscuring the true cost of public education; Answer the question
When Melinda Nickless, a Texas elections official, was asked at a recent training session for county election chairs about Spanish-speaking voters, many attendees were irked by her flippant response.
When it comes to pressing problems facing the country, higher education seems to be on the back-burner in the average American’s mind. After all, higher education is an area in which the United States still shows a strong performance. However, the competition overseas is getting tougher, and new perspectives must be considered when observing the functionality of higher education in the U.
It seems to be common knowledge that UT liberal arts faculty have a decidedly liberal bias and business faculty, a conservative one. I haven’t heard as much about the stereotypes for the other schools. I guess one can only be so liberal or conservative about chemistry.
Storing Wind Energy; Now Who’s Missing the Point?
Texas is extraordinarily well-positioned with respect to two of the most talked-about ways of reducing carbon emissions to the atmosphere: wind generation and carbon capture and storage.
Getting lost is one of the most underappreciated parts of life.
Monroe's DWI; Disrespect for the First Amendment; Confused campaigning
Irrational arguments; Missing the point; Denying human rights violations
Did you know President Barack Obama hates Texas, and he’s hell-bent on making America socialist?
The wall erected by the Palestinian Solidarity Committee on the West Mall calls for UT students to boycott Israel. We at Texans for Israel would like to help interested students boycott Israel properly.
As synonymous with the college experience as lounging on the quad or late-night keg parties, a good political protest is a staple of any university. Young people, full of energy and enthusiasm, have a natural propensity to make signs, yell chants and generally be outraged. UT is blessed with a politically active student body ready to lend its voice to any worthy cause.
Texas State encourages thought; Texas State encourages thought II; SG serves itself, not students; SG relies on student involvement; SG’s big problem
Blindly siding with aggression; In government we do not trust; Voting complexities;
ST. LOUIS — Dozens of American pit bull terriers netted in the largest dogfighting raid in U.S. history are finding homes, despite some who predicted aggression or trauma would make them unsuitable as pets.
The Texas Senate Committee on Criminal Justice held a hearing yesterday to talk with the Texas Forensic Science Commission’s new chairman, John Bradley. They discussed, among other things, whether or not Bradley is serving as a political pawn for Gov. Rick Perry and whether Bradley plans to resurrect the commission’s controversial investigation into the science used to convict and execute Cameron Todd Willingham.
It’s assumed, it’s a given, it’s sacred. We all have understandably bought into the belief, as so many generations before us have done, that our career choices after graduating college will be aplenty, that our college education will serve us well and that in the years to come — after accumulating wealth and rising up in corporate, academic and creative institutions — we will be able to provide for our children, ensuring that they will have it better than we ever did.
On Saturday night, the country finally saw success in the struggle for health care reform on Capitol Hill.
The American way; Student Government’s misplaced priorities; Shortchanging The Boss
In these times of skyrocketing tuition rates, it might surprise some to learn that a group of students on campus does, in fact, have a say in the tuition-setting process.
One particular problem plaguing the nation, and especially Texas, is being widely overlooked: Kids are getting dumber.
Texas’s public school endowment is looking into funding charter schools, the Austin American-Statesman reported last week. The money would be used to reward charter schools with high educational outcomes and help them expand.
Defending SG’s resolution; Thanks to Loyd Doggett
Developing countries need to commit to limiting the growth of their greenhouse gas emissions.
With the recent defeat for gay marriage advocates in Maine, there is likely to be an increase of articles about gay marriage for the next month or two.
Tea parties
Considering the recent tea party movement in America conjures up images of anger, flamboyant signs and in one notable case, secession.
Congratulations, everyone
At 5 a.m. on May 11, Austin police officer Leonardo Quintana approached a Mercedes-Benz station wagon parked at an East Austin apartment complex.
Love is a battlefield, and so is TV. The latest skirmish features the CW network’s hit show “Gossip Girl” against the Parents Television Council, a conservative media watchdog.
I remember the first time I used one of those new forks to attack my Jester eggs. The 100-percent biodegradable forks are made of some sort of biomass mash, according to the signs placed around the cafeteria that remind me not to worry about their environmental impact as I throw them away.
UT and the private option
Dear Austin: I give up.
You have bested me at every attempt to be frugal. I now have $100 and 87 Bevo Bucks left to my name. What do I have to show for the money I’ve forked over to you? Peanut butter and jelly on wheat bread and several parking garage receipts.
Ask anyone the simple question “How much did your shoes cost?” and you will most certainly receive a simple monetary answer: “Oh, about $35.” Follow that up with the question “And where did those shoes come from?” and you will almost always receive the same answer: a store.
College Councils speak up;Capital Metro raises fares;The Free Flow of Information Act
Government and the free market
At Butler University, junior Jess Zimmerman is learning first-hand what it’s like to face coercion and castigation at the hands of the school administration to a degree that would make Joe McCarthy proud.
Partly due to abundant West Mall solicitation, students here at the University are quite cognizant of the various ills that exist in our imperfect world. Face AIDS, Save Darfur and Invisible Children are only some of the multifarious organizations on campus that have become sexy for college students to rally behind.
Last week, students claiming to represent the ideals and perspectives of both major American political parties debated the merits of the proposed health care reform bills in Congress. While College Republicans and University Democrats mostly relayed arguments that their respective parties have been making throughout the year, something about this debate struck me as interesting.
Whether you support a single payer system, a robust public option or no government intervention, I ask: What sense does it make that in a state with some of the world's best medical and research facilities, the uninsured women of Texas can only dream about receiving preventive treatment or maternity care from these institutions?
I was having a good wander around Austin the other night, hoping to get some advice from the silent city.
Protesting layoffs; Right-wing gay panic; The Houston Chronicle sues
Cut cruelty out of your diet
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