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Mapping Modern Slavery

February 27, 2015 12:07 pm | no comments

More people are enslaved now than at any point in human history. The Texas Slavery Mapping Project aims to change that. Not long ago, Noël Busch-Armendariz visited...

All in Good Time

February 27, 2015 12:00 pm | no comments

Texas has one of the best student-loan programs in the country. So why can’t UT tell students about it? The story behind Texas’ B-on-Time student loan program...

Late to the Game: Is It Wrong for a Longhorn to Root For a Team From Oklahoma?

February 27, 2015 9:32 am | no comments

Assistant editor Chris O’Connell isn’t from Texas; he’s from New Jersey. That’s OK though—he’s here now. But without growing up in...

Boomerang Days: The Dark Crystal

February 23, 2015 1:50 pm | no comments

A Longhorn does college all over again. Coffee. The nutritional cornerstone of my college diet, my morning must, my class companion, my loyal studymate. Today...

Jeremi Suri: Universities Need Our Support

February 19, 2015 3:48 pm | no comments

This column first appeared in The Daily Texan. With all the recent attacks on higher education in the United States, perhaps most noticeably in funding cuts to...

UT Study Links Binge-Watching, Depression

February 16, 2015 11:17 am | 2 comments

Binge-watching a television series is now the guilty pleasure of choice for many. Perhaps, while watching a few episodes of Friends, a familiar voice in your head...

Admissions Report Stresses Need for Clarity

February 13, 2015 2:59 pm | 2 comments

Update: The UT System has announced the members of the committee formed to study the recommendations of the Kroll report. You can see the members here. A small...

When Math Meets Opera

February 12, 2015 9:22 am | 25 comments

Editor’s Note: A few weeks ago, an email arrived in my inbox from the venerable Alan Cline, one of the campus’ renowned computer science professors....

Hammerin’ Hank Aaron at the LBJ Library

January 23, 2015 11:04 am | 5 comments

“The last year before I broke the record … I don’t talk about that much, because it bothers me,” Hank Aaron told a packed crowd at the LBJ...

Building Landmarks

January 15, 2015 3:54 pm | 22 comments

It’s 4:30 p.m. on a lip-chappingly cold Wednesday during the intersession, and campus is dead. The normally bustling stretch of Speedway between 21st Street...