Blanton: The Sequel: The Sequel

The preliminary design for UT's new Blanton Museum of Art facility has been unveiled, and as expected, the white-shoe Boston firm of Kallmann McKinnell & Wood has come up with a building that hews to the dicta of UT's Campus Master Plan, even when it doesn't make much sense.

"...In the rendering of the latest (preliminary) design for UT's Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art -- unveiled last..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Arts Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Naked City

The university makes a proposal to reintroduce affirmative action to admissions.

"...UT-Austin officials announced on Monday that the school has presented..."

Nov. 28, 2003 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Goodbye and Good Luck: Bill Livingston 1920-2013

WWII veteran and former UT acting president died this morning

"...a sad day on the 40 Acres: Former acting UT president Bill Livingston died this morning, aged 93...."

Aug. 15, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Fair Use?

Players and the UT expansion machine

"...reliable favorites away." Other folks wondered what beloved campus-area hangout was next on the chopping block – the Crown..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words?

An Anti-abortion Exhibit Produces Protests and a Free Speech Controversy at UT

"...are just a few of the questions roiling the UT-Austin campus this spring in the wake of the February..."

March 23, 2001 News Feature by Michael King

Lecturers Sue to Block Campus Carry

Do Texas concealed handgun rules break the Second Amendment?

"...day after Charles Whitman killed 14 people on the UT campus and injured 32 more, campus carry comes into..."

July 7, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Austin: The Powers That Be

The UT stalemate is one battle in an education war

"...On Wednesday afternoon, UT-Austin Pres­ident Bill Powers submitted his resignation to UT System..."

July 11, 2014 News Column by Michael King

Naked City

UT's Dept. Of Amplification

"...or staff, save for very narrow and long settled constitutional exceptions, such as incitement to imminent violence." That was..."

Nov. 8, 2002 News Feature by Michael King

News Roundup: Campaigns, Courts, and Campus Carry

Democratic socialism comes to Austin

"...were not recorded; the implementation of campus carry at UT Austin convinces some to leave the university, and presidential..."

Feb. 29, 2016 News Post by the News Staff

Powers Survives

UT President will stay through June 2015

"...A victory of sorts for supporters of UT Austin President Bill Powers: Efforts to forcibly remove him..."

July 10, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Hall Gets Hooked by Lawmakers

Transparency committee moves forward to impeach UT regent

"...Seems all that mud that UT System Regent Wallace Hall has been slinging finally stuck..."

May 12, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Powers on the Spot

Footage from the UT budget town hall [video]

"...Tuesday's UT budget town hall was supposed to be about staff..."

Feb. 5, 2010 News Post by Richard Whittaker

A Battle on the Shuttle

For aggrieved UT drivers, the buck stops at Capital Metro

"...According to onetime UT Shuttle bus driver and former Amalgamated Transit Union Local..."

May 21, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Questions of Church-State Separation at Dell Seton Medical Center

Do the hospital’s ties to the Catholic church and limits on women’s reproductive health care compromise Dell Med students' training?

"...the parking cones, forklifts, and sounds of rapid construction. But in Feb­ru­ary, that clatter should end, and by May..."

Jan. 20, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Affirming Diversity in College Admissions

Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin

"...UT Austin can keep using race as part of its..."

July 1, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...think it is the job of everyone else to put it into the context of everyday life." – Ozomatli..."

March 26, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Opening the Doors

As college access tightens, minority students and families, and educators, look for ways to help more students.

"...A lot of hopeful but nervous faces were passing through academic adviser René Sanchez's..."

Dec. 15, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Scrap It or Cap It? What to Do With Texas' Top Ten Percent Law.

Some want to do away with the post-'Hopwood' admissions law, but UT officials and others say it works

"...want to mend it. Some want to end it. But everyone who testified at last Wednesday's Senate Subcommittee on..."

April 8, 2005 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

The Insiders at Introgen

As Texas looks for a new economic boost, the decision-makers like to have a piece of the action

"...Griffin's trust fund. The youngest Perry was a baseball standout at Austin High School and is now an undergraduate..."

March 5, 2004 News Feature by Lucius Lomax

The Right Hails Hall

Regent refuses to go quietly

"...Lawmakers want to impeach him. His fellow UT System Regents want him to quit. But Wallace Hall..."

May 23, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Med School Solution

A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?

"...Chief Financial Officer John Stephens tried (as the Statesman put it) to go "Behind the Tax Increase" that the..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

The Future of Health Care?

Dell and Central Health "re-think" the way we provide – and pay for – health care

"...Center Brackenridge, a half-dozen doctors and assistants huddled around computer screens reviewing patient records and X-rays. For roughly an..."

March 24, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...A Prosecutor Weighs In..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Column

Is There a Doctor in the House?

Below the budget storm clouds, plans form for UTMB campus at Mueller

"...The Travis Co. Hospital District board has seen the future – and it's not a peace treaty between city..."

Sept. 10, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...is all too easy to see what is "lost" about Austin. It is Austin's soul. The old Austin spirit..."

July 11, 2003 Column

Classical Revival at the Blanton

The Art of the Deal

"...So what's all this about the University of Texas being a slow, confused bureaucracy?..."

Aug. 25, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Committee Finds Grounds For Hall Impeachment

Regent accused of Bill Powers witch hunt

"...Agency Operations voted that there were grounds to impeach controversial UT System Regent Wallace Hall...."

May 16, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Wanna be a Member?

"...Overall, the University of Texas System and UT-Austin provide at least 143 private club memberships..."

April 24, 1998 News Feature

Dell Medical School Team Unveils Plans to Reinvent Austin State Hospital

Rising from the ashes of the aging mental hospital

"...Services Commission of the "ASH Redesign" study led by UT's Dell Medical School. This tees up a push to..."

Feb. 8, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Far and Away the Best

"...Even though she's back at school for pre-law at UT, the "collegiate" experience of lounging around with a bunch..."

July 9, 1999 Screens Feature by Louisa C. Brinsmade

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