This editorial captures a moment in history when some students at UT first began to realize that their belief in equality might prevail over the segregationalist ones of the legislators and administrators.
On Feb. 4, John Dietz, a state district judge from Austin, ruled in favor of more than 600 Texas school districts, claiming that the state does not adequately fund its public schools and therefore violates the “efficiency” provision of Article VII of the Texas Constitution.
On Tuesday, UT announced that Thomas Edgar, a chemical engineering professor, will be promoted to interim director of the research-scandal-plauged UT Energy Institute
We acknowledge that it is less costly to graduate in four years than five, but we remain unconvinced that raising four-year graduation rates is truly in the interest of individual students’ educations.
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."