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What Scottish Independence Could Mean

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George Christian is an adjunct professor of English at UT and an expert on British-Scotland relations. Today is a day that could make history and change how the...

 
 

Goodbye, Mr. D: Longhorn Band Legend Vince DiNino Dies at 95

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When Vince DiNino arrived on the Forty Acres in 1955, the Longhorn Band was a ragtag group. Run entirely by students and led by a part-time hobbyist conductor,...

 
 

Lights, Camera, Football: “My All American” Films at UT

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Vintage cars, cheerleaders twirling in long skirts, and co-eds walking to class in letter jackets and dresses: If you visited campus this summer, you might have...

 
 

No Revenge for Texas as Longhorns Fall to BYU, 41-7

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“We’re not ready to play,” Coach Charlie Strong said, at Saturday night’s press conference following the BYU game. From the look of things,...

 
 

Longhorns Rocket Past Mean Green 38-7 in Strong’s Debut

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College football is heavy on the tradition and pageantry, so naturally the biggest spectacle at DKR before kickoff Saturday night was … a guy on a jetpack. Taking...

 
 

Viva el Mariachi

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The UT campus is quiet in the summer, but not at the Butler School of Music—where the second-annual Longhorn Mariachi Camp filled the halls with joyful noise. Ten...

 
 

The Authentication of George Covington

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In which we discover a blind man who sees the world better than everyone else. Last November, I drove way out West to see about a blind photographer. Actually,...

 
 

Punching the Clock

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Jon Schorle is an internationally renowned boxing referee, a former correctional officer in one of the nation’s toughest prisons, a family man—and the guy giving...

 
 
The Devil's Backbone

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The Devil’s Backbone

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Bill Wittliff’s inventive first novel is the story of a boy’s quest to find his missing mother in the anything-can-happen frontier of the 1880s. In this exclusive...

 
 

Language Barriers

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Since 2007, UT’s Arabic Flagship Program has been training students in advanced Arabic language and culture. The program sends Longhorns abroad for a full year...

 
 
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