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Editor’s Letter: 50 Years Later

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Remembering those lost on UT’s darkest day On Aug. 1, 1966, a troubled young University of Texas student committed one of the most horrific acts of public violence...

 
 

A Secret Garden in the UT Tower

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For more than a century, the Plant Resources Center has been building one of the best collections on campus. These days, it’s a world-renowned research destination...

 
 

Through the Rain: The Class of 2015 Graduates

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Commencement 2015 was supposed to be many things. The featured speaker was to be the president of the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker, BS, BA ’82, JD ’86,...

 
 

Boomerang Days: It Tolls For Me

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A Longhorn does college all over again. I have my UT fantasies. Skinny dipping in the Turtle Pond, tattooing my face on Bevo’s underbelly, trapping and eating...

 
 
Sydney's First Game

Sydney’s First Game

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Sydney Rubenstein visited campus to see her first UT football game, the Horns’ 2014 season opener against the University of North Texas. Her proud parents are...

 
 

Behold: Longhorn Erects Lego UT Tower

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In the grand tradition of UT Towers made of cake and ice, we now have a mini Tower that was built to last. Late one night in February, Drew Finkel, BA ’08, was...

 
 

They Live: The Saga of the Maroon Bluebonnet Continues

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Editor’s Note: UT has issued a statement on the bluebonnet chronicles, indicating that the university has no official plans to remove the maroon bluebonnet...

 
 

Maroon Bluebonnets Spotted on Campus; Nature Will Destroy Them

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The Texas bluebonnet used to mean Texas pride, but on the UT-Austin campus, it now means war. Maroon bluebonnets have sprung up on the Forty Acres—and some think...

 
 
Telling the Stories of the Whitman Shooting [Podcast]

Telling the Stories of the Whitman Shooting [Podcast]

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On a hot August day in 1966, Charles Whitman carried a footlocker full of guns and ammunition to the top of the UT Tower and started firing. The incident changed...

 
 

Tower Shines Bright for Student Supercomputing Win

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Many a sports fan hopes the UT Tower will glow orange after a game on the football field. But last night, the Tower was lit for another kind of win: A student team...

 
 
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