On Honest Friendship
We’re all fans here, so let’s be frank: at The University of Texas, there is an awful lot to cheer about. World-changing research. Dynamic professors. Brainy...
Letters
Questions of Color [Top Comments]
The March|April Alcalde launched last week, and readers chimed in from all corners of the Internet. Here’s a sampling of the most thoughtful and nuanced comments. Our...
How UT Professors Are Like Chefs
An answer to the citizens of Texas, who pay my salary and lend me their children to educate “What do you do?” I am asked this question frequently, and often...
Debating the Debate
A chat about Texas higher education with the chairman of the Board of Regents. Before we get to this interview, a word of context. About a year ago the first rumble...
Behind the Scenes With Bevo
As an editor, I hold largely a desk job. Never could I imagine work would have me beaming the sun directly into the eyes of a 2,000-pound steer. When he lowered...
Second UT College Republican President Fails at Twitter
What is going on with the UT branch of the Texas College Republicans? They seem to be having some issues with the Twitters. Last month, the group’s then-president...
End of A&M Rivalry a Chance for New Partnership
An Open Letter to Texas Aggies When the final whistle blows after the 118th game between Texas and Texas A&M tomorrow night, it will mark the end of something...
Lesson Learned
Let the Texas Tweetgate Now End If you haven’t heard by now you probably soon will: a University of Texas student had a lapse in judgment yesterday and tweeted...
R2D2 and the Liberal Arts (Top Comments)
This week, we tweeted an archival photo of the Texas Capitol under construction in the 1880s. We loved Bri Fairley‘s comment on Twitter: It totally looks...
What Starts Here Changes Texas
Sure, UT is good for the world, but first and foremost, it’s good for the state. We’ve all heard and internalized Walter Cronkite’s now-famous tagline...
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Mark: When I was at UT Austin in the 80s, I heard the same vacuous nonsense by, intere...
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Frank Schiffel: Its not only the students, its also the alumni. We all need to contact our state...
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Mary Hemenway: Nice article in spite of a couple of small errors: 1. Harlan's Globetrotters wa...
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Paul Beaver: The University of Texas was established by the Texas Constitution as a means for...
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