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Anti-American Idol at UT Austin

When conservative students at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin created a satiric scholarship to reward anti-Americanism, those young Tories named it after a journalism professor at the school who richly deserves the recognition.

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Is UT-Austin The Most Socially Just University?

The University of Texas at Austin seems to think so. “For example, UT has a Social Justice Institute, a ‘central component’ of the UT Community Engagement Center within the 94-person Department of Diversity and Community Engagement, headed by Eric Tang, a former community organizer,” Mark Pulliam, a UT alum, writes in an essay distributed by […]

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‘Therapy Wall’ at UT-Austin Created for Students to Share Election Grief
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‘Therapy Wall’ at UT-Austin Created for Students to Share Election Grief

From The College Fix: The student government created a “Therapy Wall” in the Student Activity Center Wednesday for students to properly express themselves in a therapeutic manner. Many of those expressions posted on the wall when The College Fix visited it Thursday consisted of profanity. A spokesperson for the administration said it is “not taking […]

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UT-Austin Unrepentant on Affirmative Action

For higher education administrators, affirmative action remains a topic of concern. In Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that race can be a determining factor regarding student admission. Speaking on an educational panel at a conference in Austin, Dr. Gregory Vincent –University of Texas’ Vice President for Diversity […]

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Perspectives

Fisher v. UT-Austin: Discrimination Run Amok?

The issue of affirmative action may soon find itself again before the Supreme Court of the United States. Court watchers will remember that it was just recently (a little more than a year ago) that the Court took up the issue, in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. Despite what some […]

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Guest Articles

UT-Austin Deep Blue

Members of the University of Texas at Austin’s Young Conservatives of Texas chapter, a student group affiliated with CampusReform.org, recently researched the political leanings of their university professors and found substantial liberal bias in the academy.

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