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Brownsville Send-Off Fills Families with Pride

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Longhorn pride is stronger than ever in the Rio Grande Valley, as last night’s Texas Exes Brownsville Chapter Student Send-Off proved. The 19th-annual event,...

 
 

Texas Exes Care Makes President Powers’ Best of 2012 List

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In February, more than 1,000 Exes in 53 chapters and networks worldwide volunteered during the monthlong service initiative known as the Texas Exes Care—and UT...

 
 

UT Faculty Council Resolves to Support President

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Occasionally, when the University’s leader comes to speak to the faculty about decisions they dislike, Faculty Council meetings get tense. But on Monday, as...

 
 

Everything’s Hotter in LA, Including the Texas Chili

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Last Saturday President Powers and I had the honor of being guest judges at the Texas Exes Los Angeles Chapter’s fifth annual chili cook-off. Chili is a food...

 
 

“How Much Does it Take to Confuse an Aggie?” (Top Comments of the Week)

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We couldn’t agree more with Trident Military Education‘s response to our story on what new high school grads think about college: A college education...

 
 
Top Philanthropist Questions Regent’s Silence on UT President

Top Philanthropist Questions Regent’s Silence on UT President

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Kenneth Jastrow II, chairman of UT’s Capital Campaign and the man who led the Commission of 125, criticized UT Board of Regents Chairman Gene Powell’s...

 
 

Digits: President Powers’ Speech

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President Bill Powers gave a rare policy speech on May 9, days before the UT System Board of Regents’ meeting. Here are some of the most significant numbers he...

 
 
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