Sara Schleede

Hard liquor will be banned from all fraternity events, unless served by a third party vendor, beginning Jan. 1.

The executive board began their efforts in response to a Campus Climate Response Team meeting after UT Police Department removed masked protestors carrying torches from the Main Mall in November 2017.

Fifteen UT law professors are among a growing list of more than 1,000 law professors who signed a letter asking U.S. senators to not confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh as a United States Supreme Court Justice.

Politicians from cities all over Texas discussed state and city funding dilemmas and public transportation alternatives at the Texas Tribune Festival this weekend as part of their Texas 2050 series.

From pizza slices to cobbler to untouched plates of Caesar salad, students eating at J2 and Kinsolving dining halls threw away over 30 tons of edible food last school year, according to data from University Housing and Dining.

In spring 2017, finance senior Amie Jean left the hospital in a wheelchair after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Last April, she completed the Longhorn Run pushed in a pink wheelchair on loan from a local nonprofit organization.

For the first time in three years, Student Government has not introduced new legislation at their first two assembly meetings. 

UT cyclists have a new space to store their bikes at the East Campus Garage. The storage room, which holds 160 bikes and includes a tire pump and tool station, is currently open and selling permits.

The #MeToo movement became much more complex when Avital Ronell, a prominent female professor of German and comparative literature at New York University, was suspended for the current academic year after being found by NYU to have sexually harrassed former male graduate student Nimrod Reitman.

While students this summer have been working internships, going on vacation or taking courses, Student Government has been preparing for another school year, focusing on empowering students and creating more accessible academic and social opportunities. 

UT Senate of College Councils reached a milestone this year by passing eight pieces of council legislation — more than any previous administration. 

Savannah had a choice. She could buy a hamburger from the dollar menu, filling her stomach with greasy food. She could drive to H-E-B and buy groceries with whatever money she had left after paying for gas. Or, she could go to work and save

Following the resignation of Vice President-elect Raphael Jaquette, UT Senate of College Councils held an impromptu special election for the position Thursday night.

Jenna Bush Hager said she believes in hope.

Entrepreneurs, CEOs and other experienced professionals will be trading briefcases for backpacks under UT’s new TOWER Fellows Program.

Thanks to the UT International Office’s newest program, the entire world just became a classroom.

Campus is usually next to empty on the weekends as people escape to their apartments or dorms, leaving the stresses of education behind. Yet each Friday at 5 p.m., nearly 40 students congregate on the second floor of the Texas Union, clustered around laptops and tables littered with worksheets and flashcards, ready to learn something new. These students are a part of Korean English Table at Austin, or KETA, an organization that pairs international and American students together to teach others their native languages.

Since late August, more than 660,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar to seek refuge in overcrowded, mud-covered tents in Bangladesh.

Couples spun around, twisting their arms and hips to the echoes of guitars, drums and trumpets in the Student Activity Center ballroom Wednesday night.

Students walking down the South Mall late Friday morning stopped and stared. But they weren’t marveling at Littlefield Fountain or the picturesque lawn dotted with students. They were focused on a clothesline strung up outside Batts Hall with white shirts and denim letters spelling “Me Too.”

The South has something to say.

Scholars and enthusiasts from across the globe viewed art exhibitions, deciphered Mayan hieroglyphics and attended lectures about volcanoes and artifacts at the Department of Art and Art History’s 40th annual “Mesoamerica Meetings” held from Jan. 9 to 13.

On the morning of June 18, 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen was on her way to the mosque for Ramadan prayers. By the end of the day, she had been abducted and murdered. Some called it an unfortunate result of road rage. Others called it a hate crime.

Scientists are wasting time trying to force a consensus about climate change issues when they should be focusing on strengthening their argument, said Jean Goodwin, professor in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University.

Author, activist and YouTube personality Tyler Oakley said despite all the mishaps in his career, he would not change it for a thing.

Students and Austin-based athletes gathered for the third annual Adapted Sports Night, an open house for students with or without disabilities to try various sports such as sled hockey, rugby and wheelchair basketball.

Photographs from countries including the Czech Republic, Nicaragua, Morocco and New Zealand were honored Tuesday at the unveiling of the winners of this year’s Moody College of Communication Study Abroad Photo Contest.