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As part of their ongoing investigations in the death of UT fraternity pledge Tyler Cross, who died last November after falling from a fifth story balcony at the University Towers, authorities are ">taking their search to the internets. The Travis County District Attorney's office recently filed a search warrant demanding access to the Google Group archives of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fall 2006 pledge class. In the affidavit, as described by KVUE News, investigators interrogated...

- We've heard a rumor that there are plans to tear down the famous frog mural done by Daniel Johnston on the drag. We're looking into it, but we do hope it is just a rumor. - In other UT-related news, Travis county attorneys are investigating the UT chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity after the death of freshman Tyler Cross in November. Cross died after a fall from a balcony at University Towers....

- Who said student activism is dead? Remember when we told you earlier about how the students who study past 2am held a sit-in (peacefully) demanding longer library hours? Yesterday, the university announed that, starting in the Spring, the FAC will be open 24 hours.

This morning around 4a.m., a woman was walking her dog when she discovered the body of 18-year old UT freshman Tyler Cross (pictured right). The Texan reports Cross fell from the fifth floor of a University Towers' dormitory balcony onto the sidewalk of West 24th Street.