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A Wednesday evening open forum brought students together to discuss how racism permeates modern institutions on local and national levels.
The UT Tower has glowed orange to commemorate rivalry football victories, academic achievements and Texas Independence Day. For the first time, the Tower will light up to celebrate the rock climbing team’s first national championship victory.
This past Saturday, the Texas rock climbing team took first place at the National Collegiate Climbing Series in Boston and competed against roughly 30 other collegiate teams, said Will Butcher, Texas Rock Climbing club president and Plan II and finance and business honors senior.
In February, Austin’s Charter Revision Committee approved a “10-1” proposal for City Council representation — with 10 geographic, single-member districts and one at-large mayor — which, though imperfect, would likely increase student representation at the city level. Now, more than two months later, the council has yet to agree on or fully discuss the plan, according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Heba Dafashy’s column titled “Shining through the cloud of student debt,” which ran Thursday, outlines an additional method for allocating student loans. Depending on the individual, loans through SoFi may or may not be preferable to loans through the federal government such as Stafford Loans.
Student loans seem to be a big looming cloud over students’ heads that only continues to grow larger with rising tuition costs. But the Texas Exes could be the solution.
Promoting the movement for gender-inclusive housing on campus, StandOut held a demonstration Tuesday afternoon on Speedway about what a dorm room with students of different genders would look like.
Information stolen from some students’ credit and debit cards has been used at the same online stores, leading to privacy and safety concerns on campus. Law enforcement officials urge students to report card information theft.
Ilse Quijano | Outgoing internal finance director
Nirali Shah | New internal finance director
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) — One candidate is worth up to $250 million, ran a private equity firm and plans to build an elevator for the cars at his beach house. The other is the former head of the Harvard Law Review who became a best-selling author and millionaire and now lives in the world’s most famous mansion — 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Major changes to the structure of subsidized student federal loans may make paying them off significantly more burdensome.
The state of Texas makes us buy insurance and fines us if we drive without it. How is that so different from the federal government ordering us to buy health insurance? Republicans will argue that auto insurance is necessary to protect the public, but a similar argument can be made for health insurance. People who don’t have health insurance use emergency rooms at the expense of the public at large.
Eric Pianka
Integrative biology professor
While looking at both the dashboard of controllers and the horizon ahead, finance junior and student pilot Alex Madison demonstrated decisive judgment and confidence beyond his flying experience as the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport air traffic control tower cleared him for takeoff.
A former insider trader who is soon facing life behind bars advised students to steer clear of illegal activities that may cause them to end up in his position.
The UT System Board of Regents’ personal donations to the Texans for Rick Perry campaign totaled more than $1.9 million from 2000 to Jan. 1, according to a Daily Texan analysis of financial reports from the Texas Ethics Commission.
The Austin City Council approved an agreement between the city and JP Morgan Chase & Co. that has alarmed groups concerned with the risks of a major bank handling public funds.
The agreement will make the large multinational bank the new depository for $1.1 million of the City’s funds for the next five years, according to the recommendation for council action issued March 22.
ATHENS, Greece — Greek state hospital services faced disruptions Wednesday as staff held work stoppages and protests over government austerity measures and pay delays.
Doctors and staff at public hospitals in the greater Athens area were walking off the job for three hours Wednesday, and planned a demonstration at the health ministry at noon.
Hospital doctors were also holding a go-slow protest, demanding the payment of overtime they say has not been paid for four months.
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks drifted higher Monday but lost the momentum from their biggest week of the year. A dividend from Apple, a deal for UPS and the promise of greater demand for U.S. Steel drove those stocks to gains.
The Dow Jones industrial average finished up 6.51 at 13,239.13, a ho-hum performance compared with the Dow’s 310-point gain last week. The S&P500 rose 5.58 points to 1,409.75, its highest since May 2008.
A 1.5 million dollar bequest from alumni Tom and Jeanie Carter will be used to fund the first endowed chair of the School of Undergraduate Studies.
University Democrats and College Republicans faced off Wednesday night in a debate on issues that influence
students most.
Students voiced concerns about increasing college tuition and the structure of the student financial aid website at a discussion Monday.
Voter turnout in this year's Student Government elections may end up being the lowest in decades. Of course, that may have something to do with the fact that the contest is beginning to look less like an election and more like an episode from one of the later seasons of “Survivor” in which, facing flagging ratings, the network tries to rouse interest to make viewers care with some grand display that only makes them look more desperate.
Jazz covers of Radiohead and a performance of total silence greeted audience members Wednesday night at the debut concert for Classical Reinvention, a student creation attempting to bring classical music to modern audiences.
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of profiles of the five executive alliances currently in the running for student body president and vice president.
A year ago, Madison Gardner and Antonio Guevara stood campaigning on opposite sides of the Student Government elections. Gardner wore blue and white to support presidential candidates Natalie Butler and Ashley Baker, while Guevara wore red and black to support Abel Mulugheta and Sameer Desai.
