March | April 2015

 

Head of the Class

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Meet six rising stars who aren’t waiting for graduation to change the world. Since 1985, the Texas Exes’ President’s Leadership Award has honored six students...

 
 

#Winning

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Take a look back at UT volleyball’s 2014 season through the team’s most-used hashtags on Twitter and Instagram. Going into the 2014 NCAA Semifinals this past...

 
 

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The Weight of the World

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The longest war in American history is over, but the mission is not accomplished. Now more than ever, the world needs our country to lead. On Dec. 28, 2014, after...

 
 
Adventures of a Super Crip

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Adventures of a Super Crip

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What life is like when everyone assumes you are a hero. Earlier this year, as I was boarding a flight, the gate agent watched me approach the entrance to the jetway,...

 
 

New Beginnings

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After so much controversy and strife, at last a new day has dawned. For too long, our campus community and those of us who care deeply about it have watched as controversy...

 
 

Editor’s Letter: Boots on the Ground

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  When a global issue gets personal. It never felt like a war, not to me. From the confines of my life in Austin, what our deployed military personnel experienced...

 
 

The Way Back: Office Space

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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...

 
 

Big Bertha’s British Invasion

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Since 1955, the enormous Big Bertha bass drum has been struck by members of the Longhorn Band at hundreds of UT football games. On New Year’s Day, the 8-foot-tall...

 
 

March | April 2015 Good Reads

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New books of interest to the Longhorn Universe My Beautiful City Austin By David Heymann Waxing nostalgic about how Austin used to be has become something of an...

 
 

Boomerang Days: The Dark Crystal

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 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...

 
 
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