Letters to the Editor

 

Talk Back: Responses to our January|February Issue

A New Suit The Texas Exes unveiled a brand new look, and readers had a lot to say about it. Larry Lauck, BJ ’77, Life Member, wrote: “I applaud the simplification...

 
 

Talk Back: Responses to our November | December Issue

Readers were struck by the excerpt from Pulitzer Prize-winning Longhorn Karen Elliott House’s new book, On Saudi Arabia. Gordon Novak, BS ’69, MA ’71, PhD...

 
 

Talk Back: Responses to our September|October Issue

{November | December 2012} Jeff Wilson’s everything-but-the-football photo essay of the spectacle that is UT gameday brought the Longhorn spirit flooding in (“Beyond...

 
 
Talk Back: Responses to our May|June Issue

Talk Back: Responses to our May|June Issue

{ May | June 2012 } “The ‘D’ Word” Our cover story on drought prompted everything from praise to complaint to a down-home Texas comeback. Juli Berwald called...

 
 

Hate To Be a Butthead, But…

Letters to the Editor { July | August 2011 } Lookin’ Good Count me in as one of those who admires the new look of “The Old Alcalde.” Even an old guy needs...

 
 

Bring Back the Rodeo Club

Bring Back the Rodeo Club I enjoyed Lynn Freehill’s article “Rodeo Club” in the March|April issue of The Alcalde. How sad to learn how short-lived the Rodeo...

 
 

Adieu, Eleanor

Adieu, Eleanor It was with selfish sadness, but with great appreciation for her tremendous service to so many, that I read about Eleanor Moore’s retirement from...

 
 

Respect Trumps Partisanship

Editor’s Note: In the November|December 2010 issue, we printed a letter to the editor objecting to a photo in the September|October 2010 of President Obama visiting...