On Monday, Feb. 3, two bills filed in the Texas House and Senate detailed plans for the creation of a Rio Grande Valley university by joining UT-Brownsville, UT-Pan American and the UT Regional Academic Health Center.
Water scarcity is not just a concern for profitable business development (as put forth by Gov. Rick Perry); it's a present and immediate threat to the survival of Texas as we know it.
"Perry, who maintains the antediluvian notion that being gay is a matter of choice, fails to understand that all BSA’s “no-gays” policy achieves is just another sinister lock on a gay child’s closet door."
At 10 a.m. yesterday morning, UT President William Powers Jr., sporting a burnt orange tie and a no-nonsense look, gave a 36-minute address about the future of the University’s finances.
UT's own hazy and conflicted interpretation of the rules guiding employee-student relationships suggests that the policy needs to be sharpened and clarified. As it stands, the policy creates an incentive to keep consensual relationships clandestine, an explicit violation of policy.