New York Chapter Aids Needy Families Rewriting Race in Admissions Supreme Court to Hear Texas Case on Race in Admissions Fundraiser Set As Injured Soccer Player Fights to Recover Pro-Choice, Pro-Life Advocates Attend Birth Control Rally
 

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Learning by Doing: Why Students Need Lab Time Sooner

Learning by Doing: Why Students Need Lab Time Sooner

Imagine the impact on the arts if we required every aspiring instrumentalist to complete 12 years of theory and careful study of the...

 
UT Unveils Strategies for Raising Graduation Rates

UT Unveils Strategies for Raising Graduation Rates

UT Named in Top 10 Best Values Among Public Universities

UT’s Rural Enrollment Up, Hispanic Enrollment Edges Down

UT’s Rural Enrollment Up, Hispanic Enrollment Edges Down

Powers to Obama: Cost Is One Thing, Value Is Another

 

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UTexas Memes Page Ranked Second in Nation

We can’t get enough of memes. No, seriously—we can’t. And apparently, neither can anyone else. College-specific memes...

 
Record-Breaking Fast-Food Icon Leaves Wendy’s

Record-Breaking Fast-Food Icon Leaves Wendy’s

New Texas Football Schedule Set

New Texas Football Schedule Set

Spirit and Traditions Council Hosts Basketball Party

Ricky Williams to Retire from the NFL

 
 

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New York Chapter Aids Needy Families

It’s often said that volunteers gain as much from their service as they give. In the case of the Texas Exes New York Chapter,...

 

From Alaska to the East Coast, Chapters Take Up Service

Dallas Chapter Legacy Group Unites Older Alumni

Chicago Chapter Donates Food for the Hungry

Johnson County Chapter Plants Orange and White Flowers

 

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Supreme Court to Hear Texas Case on Race in Admissions

Supreme Court to Hear Texas Case on Race in Admissions

The University of Texas’ use of race in admissions will be reviewed by the nation’s highest court. Today the Supreme Court...

 

Fundraiser Set As Injured Soccer Player Fights to Recover

UT Researchers Send Experimental Satellite into Space

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life Advocates Attend Birth Control Rally

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life Advocates Attend Birth Control Rally

Students Request Statue to Honor Modern Vets

Students Request Statue to Honor Modern Vets

 
 

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The Birth of Gregory Gym

The Birth of Gregory Gym

Today Gregory Gym is an ultramodern facility boasting everything from an indoor track to a luxury pool (complete with palm trees) to a billiards room. It’s...

 
 

New York Chapter Aids Needy Families

It’s often said that volunteers gain as much from their service as they give. In the case of the Texas Exes New York Chapter, some young alumni got a head...

 
 
Rewriting Race in Admissions

Rewriting Race in Admissions

As a high-profile challenge to UT’s policies plays out, The Alcalde convened a roundtable of administrators, professors, and alumni to talk about where admissions should...

 
 
Supreme Court to Hear Texas Case on Race in Admissions

Supreme Court to Hear Texas Case on Race in Admissions

The University of Texas’ use of race in admissions will be reviewed by the nation’s highest court. Today the Supreme Court agreed to hear Fisher v. Texas,...

 
 

Fundraiser Set As Injured Soccer Player Fights to Recover

Both the Austin and UT communities are rallying behind Kylie Doniak, the UT senior who was hit by a drunk driver downtown earlier this month. The 22-year-old midfielder...

 
 

UT Researchers Send Experimental Satellite into Space

Very early on the morning of Monday, Feb. 13, the European Space Agency launched its brand-new rocket into space, and with it went a satellite supporting an experiment...

 
 

UT Tower Turns 75

Behold the UT Tower, the definitive landmark of the University. For 75 years, it has watched over the daily campus bustle, breaking its silence every quarter hour...

 
 
Pro-Choice, Pro-Life Advocates Attend Birth Control Rally

Pro-Choice, Pro-Life Advocates Attend Birth Control Rally

Nearly 200 students and Austinites—both pro-choice and pro-life—braved the rainy, cold weather Friday to participate in a “Birth Control Matters” rally on...

 
 
Students Request Statue to Honor Modern Vets

Students Request Statue to Honor Modern Vets

A band of UT students has requested that a statue be built on campus to honor veterans in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they’ve taken to an edgy new online tool...

 
 

UTexas Memes Page Ranked Second in Nation

We can’t get enough of memes. No, seriously—we can’t. And apparently, neither can anyone else. College-specific memes are popping up nationwide, and...

 
 
 
 
 
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