Save the Cactus Café Group Will Attend Town Hall Today

The Save the Cactus Café organization started over the weekend as a Facebook group and is now over 13,000 members strong. They're gathering this afternoon at a town hall meeting to try to persuade University of Texas president Bill Powers to save the iconic venue and its courses.

The meeting will be in the Avaya Auditorium, room 2.302, in the ACES Building at 24th and Speedway, and will get under way at 4 p.m.

Their protest might be coming too late, though. According to the Statesman, Powers isn't going to be changing his mind anytime soon. And Juan González, vice president for student affairs, said, "I'm not thinking of turning back. This is not a placebo to test public receptivity to these kinds of cuts. This is for real."

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