In case anyone has figured out exactly how college football’s Bowl Championship Series works, there’s a new challenge for puzzle fans: the 2010 Texas gubernatorial race....

The Speedway Project is a plan to completely renovate Speedway Street from Martin Luther King Boulevard to Dean Keeton. In a broad sense, the goal is to transform that area into a “student activity space” on par with the West Mall and Main Mal...

Everyone is on their feet, and you’re yelling so loud that your head is starting to hurt. The opposing team has to move the chains deep inside the closed end of Darrell Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. You should be yelling. Everyone else is yelling. L...

When UT decided to raise tuition 5 percent last year, students were upset. The University Democrats organized Tuition Relief Now! to protest the hike with rallies and lobbying campaigns....

Fighting for women; Putting pressure on Israel  ...

Intramural sports can be an absolute joy to participate in. There really is nothing better in the world than getting together with friends and throwing the football around or shooting some hoops. Come to think of it, in my experience here at the Universi...

It’s an interesting time to be young and gay in America....

UT students are active. We’re outspoken. And, for the most part, we want to improve the world. But we have a much easier time speaking in unison at football games than we do when it comes to addressing issues of equality on our campus....

Obscuring the true cost of public education; Answer the question...

In the shadow of the national buzz over women’s reproductive choices, Austin has its own reproductive battle to fight. In the last month, the Travis County Healthcare District board meetings have been fraught with controversy over abortion....

The petroleum world is at war with itself, and the stakes of the quarrel are high for all of us. The debate concerns the concept of peak oil — the term used to describe a global limit of oil production — its timing, and its implications. ...

No Trail of lights; UDems Ride-N-Register; Shami throws his hat into the ring...

Storing Wind Energy; Now Who’s Missing the Point?...

It seems to be common knowledge that UT liberal arts faculty have a decidedly liberal bias and business faculty, a conservative one. I haven’t heard as much about the stereotypes for the other schools. I guess one can only be so liberal or conservat...

When it comes to pressing problems facing the country, higher education seems to be on the back-burner in the average American’s mind. After all, higher education is an area in which the United States still shows a strong performance. However, the c...

When Melinda Nickless, a Texas elections official, was asked at a recent training session for county election chairs about Spanish-speaking voters, many attendees were irked by her flippant response....

Irrational arguments; Missing the point; Denying human rights violations...

Monroe's DWI; Disrespect for the First Amendment; Confused campaigning...

Getting lost is one of the most underappreciated parts of life....

Texas is extraordinarily well-positioned with respect to two of the most talked-about ways of reducing carbon emissions to the atmosphere: wind generation and carbon capture and storage....