There’s no evidence to suggest that the inhabitants of Turtle Pond ever met Tessie, a giant mechanical Franken-turtle built at UT in 1954, but at roughly 4 feet...
Many Texas Exes pine for the Forty Acres, but Allen Reid Robertson, BJ ’52, Life Member, had more reason than most. The 21-year-old’s studies were interrupted...
Ben Wright’s piece on Allen Reid Robinson’s letter to J. Frank Dobie, from the January | February 2016 issue of the Alcalde can be read here. For more...
In 1974, ZZ Top rocked Memorial Stadium.
By the time the music began at 3 p.m., it was 90-plus degrees and Memorial Stadium was packed with 80,000 people. The barbeque...
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...
The story of the peregrinus, the mascot and so-called patron saint of the Law School, stretches all the way back to the Roman Empire. Sort of.
Around the turn of...
As the film pops and flickers, a young woman with arched eyebrows, warm eyes, and an ever-so-slightly lopsided smile is tearing into her companion. The man, in...
Workspace replicas are fairly common exhibits. People love to revel in the personal spaces of vision-aries like Julia Child (the Smithsonian) or President Lyndon...
In 1906, the UT baseball team was in debt, so students created an event dubbed the Varsity Circus to raise money to get the baseball team out of the red and back...
The hottest topic in town—one practically impossible to avoid at a cocktail party—is how fast Austin has grown in the past decade. The hometown of the Longhorns...
