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Longhorn Lights Out sends students to save energy in buildings across campus

By Minnah Zaheer - Updated on April 1, 2018 at 9:44 pm

On Friday, Longhorn Lights Out hosted their monthly “Join the Dark Side” event in which groups of students turn off lights and other unnecessary electronics in buildings across campus.
Dockless electric scooters may be coming to University area

By Meara Isenberg - Updated on April 1, 2018 at 9:41 pm

A month after Austin’s city council approved a 12-month program to test dockless bikes, the stationless vehicles may soon be rolling in to city streets.
National bone marrow donor program addresses misconceptions about transplants

By Grace Speas - Updated on April 1, 2018 at 9:39 pm

Be The Match, a worldwide registry matching cancer patients to donors for bone marrow transplantation, will swab cheeks on campus in six different locations during April 9–11.
Armenian Students Association re-establishes group with semesterly cook out

By Savana Dunning - Updated on March 30, 2018 at 12:04 am

The smell of baklava and grilled kabobs filled the air at the second Armenian Students Association’s semesterly cookout, promoting the organization’s effort to reestablish its presence on campus.
Comedians, students stand up for refugees with charity event

By Nicole Stuessy - Updated on March 29, 2018 at 11:57 pm

The second annual Stand Up for Refugees night brought together 150 people to watch dance performances and four comedians, and donated all proceeds towards Refugee Services of Texas, an organization which offers resettlement and legal services to refugees in the state. The event was hosted by members of the Ismaili Muslim Students Association, Management Information Systems Association and OneWay South Asian Intervarsity.
Christopher Plummer works to unite UT Austin’s black community

By Kamari Esquerra - Updated on March 29, 2018 at 11:51 pm

Government junior Christopher “Slim” Plummer didn’t experience racism until coming to UT. However, he uses his negative experience to make a positive impact by unifying African-American students through planning community events, such as the “Black Panther” premiere watch party last month.
Campus E+E Mexican American Cultures Committee hosts dinner on social justice for Latinx

By Gracie Awalt - Updated on March 29, 2018 at 11:47 pm

The Campus Events + Entertainment Mexican American Cultures Committee hosted the annual César Chávez Legacy dinner, named after the Mexican-American farmworker and civil rights activist, in the Union Ballroom Thursday.
Campus E+E Mexican American Cultures Committee hosts dinner on social justice for Latinx

By Gracie Awalt - Updated on March 29, 2018 at 11:46 pm

The Campus Events + Entertainment Mexican American Cultures Committee hosted the annual César Chávez Legacy dinner, named after the Mexican-American farmworker and civil rights activist, in the Union Ballroom Thursday.
Black, Asian, Latinx alumni tell of segregation at UT ‘as they saw it’

By Stephanie Adeline - Updated on March 29, 2018 at 11:33 pm

The panel was hosted by the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement as a preview to the book “As We Saw It,” which documents stories of African-American alumni at UT. Although the book only includes perspectives of African-American students, the panel was a way to explore experiences of other minority groups.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf — ‘Africa’s Iron Lady’ — fills Hogg Auditorium

By Bevyn Howard - Updated on March 28, 2018 at 11:26 pm

Dubbed “Africa’s Iron Lady,” Sirleaf’s path to power was not a straight one. After being exiled to Kenya twice and wrongfully imprisoned, she had to fight to assume her power in 2006. Yet once she earned her presidency, she quickly secured millions of dollars of foreign investment for Liberia whilst entirely erasing its debt, according to Britannica.

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