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UT's prestigious LBJ School of Public Affairs found itself in a hairy situation this weekend when the school's commencement booklets were distributed with an hilarious unfortunate error.
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LBJ School Makes a Very Pubic Error
Jack Shit: The Galling Resurrection of a Con Artist
Abramoff did everything he could to minimize, rationalize and side-wind his way around anything that could be generously described as an ethical accounting. He portrayed himself as merely a more successful cog in a corrupt system, absolving the specifics of his crimes by invoking the free-floating rage we all have against the Washington machine. “The system is 100% wrong. I should be as honest about that as I am about myself.” Of course, it’s something less than honest to constantly deflect the conversation into the moral wasteland in which you were King Con.
UT President Powers Gets Outpouring Of Support
As you may have heard, the UT System Board of Regents decided to freeze tuition instead of hiking the rate by 2.6 percent, even though the latter measure was recommended by UT President Bill Powers. This divisive issue has made for some strange bedfellows - while supporters of the tuition freeze include Governor Perry, opponents include a large cross-section of groups including Student Government and the Texas Exes.
Watch Out Baylor: UT Regents Say Yes To Med School
The University of Texas is set to become that much bigger and massively more medical. As explained in a press release sent out today from the university, the Regents have okayed a plan to "allocate up to $30 million a year from the state's Available University Fund to establish a medical school."
UT's Student Housing: Possibly "Gender Inclusive" By 2013
In the biggest news of note since Sunday's "Lady sells things on eBay" scoop and the striking "Local band has ambitious future" piece published yesterday, the Daily Texan is now saying that by 2013 the University of Texas may have "gender inclusive" dorms, which actually sounds like a big deal.
UT Students Arrested For Sweatshop Protest Yesterday
A peaceful protest at the University Tower resulted in the arrest of a group of students yesterday afternoon after 5pm.
Texas Native and U.T. Austin Grad John Lewis Gaddis Wins Pulitzer
While most of the buzz about the Pulitzer Prizes awarded this year was devoted to what the board decided not to hand out - as in an award for fiction or "editorial writing" - we'd be remiss in not mentioning that John Lewis Gaddis, the "Dean of Cold War Historians" scored big with his book George F. Kennan: An American Life, which won the "Biography" category.
U. Texas's Tower Garden Memorial For 1966 Shooting Victims
Last night, Mad Men touched upon the horrifying 1966 University of Texas murders. Charles Whitman, a student and former Marine, killed 16 people and wounded 32 others during a shooting rampage on August 1, 1966, killing three victims inside the UT tower and 10 from the 28th floor observation deck of the administration building.
Convicted Felon Abramoff to Speak at UT (And Five People Who Would Probably Be Better)
We were slightly dumbfounded to hear that the University of Texas is bringing Jack Abramoff to campus to discuss... ethics at the McCombs School of Business. And so, we formally submit to you, our readers, our list of the Top Five People Better Suited to Discuss Business and Ethics at UT Austin.
UT is now Smoke-Free
Life just a got a lot more difficult for smokers on the University of Texas campus. After an April 9th meeting with "stakeholder representatives" (it doesn't say who they are but let's just go ahead and imagine it's kinda Skulls and Bones-y and Joshua Jackson is there), it was decided that the flagship campus of the University of Texas system would become smoke free.
Appealing To Common Sense, UT Looks To Ban Triclosan
The anti-bac trend...are you getting washed away in it? Or, just letting it get all over your hands and then letting it dissolve? Soap has only gotten more powerful over the years - meaning we may be inadvertently creating super-smart microbes resistant to our attempts to destroy them - but until we get there, let's talk about triclosan, a chemical agent added to soap that the University of Texas may ban outright.
Supreme Court To Hear UT Affirmative Action Case
The United States Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it will hear a long-anticipated case against the University of Texas regarding its racial diversity policies. It's a case that could end affirmative action as we know it.
University of Texas Memes Are Now A Thing
Admission during fall of 2011 at the University of Texas was about 51,000 students - that's a lot of people who can appreciate a good Bevo Bucks riff.
Tomorrow: UT Offers "Game Changers" Live At Studio 6A
Unable to avoid sports metaphors even for a second, The University of Texas will be presenting two speakers live from Studio 6A in the Communications building tomorrow as a part of their "Game Changers" series of sixty-minute talks.
Local Fraternity Under Scrutiny for Sex Shows and Hazing
Texas Omicron, formerly the Omicron Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order, seems to have quite the rap sheet of bad behavior. The group is now facing a lawsuit from the national administrative office of its former parent organization. The charges? Hazing, hiring exotic dancers, and staging live sex acts.
UT Study Shows Gaps in Services to Victims of Sexual Assault
A new study from researchers at the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (IDVSA) at The University of Texas shows significant gaps in services available to victims of sexual assault in the state.
UT Professor Discusses Legal Protection for Ugly People
Daniel S. Hamermesh is an economics professor at UT with a new book coming out this month called Beauty Pays. Yesterday, Hamermesh wrote an opinion piece for The New York Times discussing his philosophy around looks and the workplace. He begins with the knowledge that a person's looks impact their experiences in the workplace and beyond (which we already knew) but goes beyond that conversation and into one around equality. How can we even the playing field in the workplace, knowing that some people are discriminated against simply because they're ugly?
Food: Josh Watkins Shakes It Up At The Carillon This Fall
The Carillon has always been a bit of a contradiction. It's a big, expensive, formal room - run by a young, cutting-edge chef. It's too highly regarded to be called Austin's best kept secret - yet it's tucked away on the South end of the UT campus, far from most of Austin's best dining options. And while it's technically a 'hotel restaurant' - the food is anything but. With Chef Josh Watkins at the helm, the restaurant employs a big bag of tricks: everything from liquid nitrogen to extensive local sourcing to playful use of the amuse bouche to test new ideas. If Watkins looks familiar, you may have once seen him at The Driskill Grill, where he was mentored by David Bull before taking the lead role at the restaurant in his years prior to moving to The Carillon. The Chef's youthful appearance belies his skill - until Bull's Congress received five stars from Mike Sutter this spring, Watkins held the city's highest food rating from the Austin American-Statesman. We called Watkins recently to get his thoughts on Austin's evolving dining scene, and to learn more about what could be coming soon to The Carillon.
Snapshots: Big Boi at 40 Acres Fest
Big Boi, solo artist and one half of Atlanta hip-hop duo Outkast, hit the stage at UT's annual 40 Acres Fest Saturday night to break out classics and new hits alike. Austinist photographer Trent Lesikar captured the performance.
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Texas Tops Teach for America Rankings
The University of Texas is number one on Teach For America's rankings by participants in schools with over 10,000 undergraduates, or "big schools." 80 graduating UT seniors were accepted into the teaching program. The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor fell in second place (narrowly) with 79 graduating seniors being accepted. While this was the first time UT took the top spot officially (Teach for America only began releasing school rankings three years ago), the university has consistently been in the top five each of those years. Founded in 1990, Teach for America currently serves 39 urban and rural areas nationwide. [KUT]
Public Forums on UT Dorm Named for Klan Prof [Update]
Earlier this month we posted on the controversy surrounding Simkins Residence Hall at the University of Texas (UT).
Discussions on Dorm Named for Klan Prof Begin
Located next to Waller Creek, Simkins Residence Hall is the University of Texas's (UT) last all-male dormintory. Over the last several weeks, the otherwise unassuming building has been the focus of a debate dredging up distant, but not forgotten, memories of our nation's history.
Sports Illustrated's Frank Deford to Speak at UT
In the most recent Sports Illustrated, Frank Deford turns in the elegiac "Confessions of a Sportswriter", vividly portraying his life and career over the past 50 years. This week, Deford will share some of those same thoughts with an audience at the University of Texas.
UT, Google Amend Book Search Agreement to Free Up More Titles
Google's pending settlement with authors and publishers groups will make more books from University of Texas libraries available online.
Preview: Long Day's Journey Into Night at The Off Center [Theatre]
Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill will be presented at The Off Center directed by Lucien Douglas, Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and starring long-time Austin theatre bastions Ev Lunning, Jr. and Patricia Pearcy.
Longhorn Women's Golf Team Begins Play in NCAA Tournament
The Texas women's golf team is headed to the NCAA Championships for the second straight year after a fourth-place finish in the West Regionals. Coach Martha Richards has now taken her team to the national finals in each of her two years with the program.
Post LBJ Panel Review: Dr. Ebadi On US-Iranian Relations
Former President Bush had insisted that Iran first halt its nuclear program before talking. President Obama dropped any preconditions. When the two countries eventually sit down to talk, what might be on the agenda? On Thursday night, April 30th, Dr. Shirin Ebadi, a human rights lawyer from Iran and four U.S. Middle Eastern experts discussed President Obama’s prospects for reconciliation. Betty Sue Flowers, Director of the LBJ Library, moderated the panel. To protect Dr. Ebadi, and to encourage the “free exchange of ideas,” no video or audio recording was allowed.
The Daily Photoist: January 9, 2009
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The Daily Photoist: November 18, 2008
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