Sept | Oct 2015

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Down to the River

By Rose Cahalan

Something terrible happened to Steve Davis, BBA ’78, and he turned his suffering into an incredible fly fishing camp for kids on Idaho’s Snake River.

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The Storm Before the Storm

By Bower Yousse and Thomas J. Cryan

His is one of the greatest stories of perseverance and grit in college sports history, and it’s finally getting its due. In this exclusive excerpt from the new...

The Young Ones

By Alcalde Staff

The Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award, initiated in 1980, recognizes consummate professionals whose career achievements are matched only by their service to the university....

September|October Alumni Authors

By Anna Daugherty and Jane Robbins Mize

The Carriage House by Louisa Hall, MA ’09, PhD ’14 Louisa Hall’s debut novel is set in her hometown in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The story focuses on what...

The Way Back: Life Before Lycra

By Ben Wright

When the UT women’s athletics program was formalized in the 1920s, Lycra hadn’t been invented. And considering the attitudes of the day, that’s probably just...

September|October 2015 Crossword Solution

By Myles Mellor

Click here to see the solution to the September | October 2015 Alcalde crossword.

Boomerang Days: Reptile Rampage!

By Owen Egerton

A Longhorn does college all over again. I hate snakes. As a rule, I avoid them, steering clear of zoo reptile houses, skipping the early chapters of Genesis, and...

Glorious Greece

By Tim Taliaferro

In Greece, the Flying Longhorns discovered a country at once ancient and new. It’s easy to see why the ancient Greeks believed that Delphi was the center of...

Great Dane

By Joe Hanson

What’s the future of space travel? And what do you do if you’re wearing a spacesuit and your nose itches? Astronaut Andreas Mogensen, PhD ’07, answers these...

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Seeing Race

By Leonard Moore

In his class on the history of the Black Power movement, Leonard Moore ditches political correctness in favor of open, honest, and sometimes uncomfortable conversations...