2001 Austin Film Festival Schedule

"...at the box office. Festival passes (good for all admissions except the Oct. 14 Waking Life benefit) cost $42.50..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Screens Feature

What's Wrong with Public Housing?

The remarkable turnaround of the city's Housing Authority

"...painted over the graffiti, mowed the grass, got the admissions department functioning, and started making properties available." The authority..."

Aug. 31, 2001 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Book 'Em

Recent Picks From the Summer Crop

"...four sets of equally crude and self-effacing recollections and admissions. To Sixx, it's about surviving overdose after overdose in..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Books Feature by Andy Langer

Coach's Corner

Travelling in Colorado with his daughter, Coach has time to take in some sports, and contemplate some truths about global warming and Major League baseball.

"...A busy week listening to droning admissions officers, fuming in hellish traffic snafus, and traipsing docilely..."

July 6, 2001 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

After a Fashion

Our Style Avatar discovers dirt cheap cigs and trumpets the extravagant Bikes & Babes in Toyland benefit.

"...free. Donations the day of the event earn discounted admissions: $5 off with a soccer ball donation to Hope..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Day Trips

The first Lone Star Legacy Weekend allows daytrippers free access to state parks.

"...gamble for the department to forego the income from admissions on what could be a beautiful fall weekend. TPWD..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Bahn, Bahn, Bahn ...

Apparently, most Austinites don't know that New Braunfels' Schlitterbahn Waterpark has a resort.

"...Anna-Terese, at the park. She was working in the admissions department (and still does), and the two have been..."

May 26, 2000 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Colors of the Mountain

"...Mao, the country reinvests in education, and countrywide college admissions exams are announced. The first and only route out..."

April 28, 2000 Books Review by Marion Winik

War Stories Panel: Austin Convention Center, Thursday, Mar 16

Wednesday Night

"...Booth, who it seems charmed everybody with his candid admissions ("I've made an amazingly small amount of money doing..."

March 24, 2000 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Naked City

Five Austin campuses make Newsweek's list of the "best" schools based on AP course offerings; but some say the results are skewed.

"...do well by their students, says University of Texas Admissions Director Bruce Walker. "The ranking of schools based on..."

March 24, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Page Two

No soul is more appropriate for the SXSW film festival than the late actor Warren Oates.

"...There will be only a very limited number of admissions sold to this show. SXSW Music badges and wristbands..."

March 10, 2000 Column by Louis Black

Articulations

Farewell to two local galleries, welcome to the new dean of the UT College of Fine Arts.

"...campus, and presided over a 90% increase in school admissions. Freeman left the Eastman School in 1996 and has..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Arts Column by Robert Faires

On The Lege

Stopping the Train

"...race and Mexican-American national origin as a factor" in admissions, scholarship, and recruitment -- something former attorney gen. Dan..."

Feb. 12, 1999 News Column

On the Lege

Boxed Out

"...for an immediate reinstatement of the university's affirmative action admissions and recruitment programs, which were dismantled in response to..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Column

Thanks!

"...Body Snatchers, Alien, The Thing, etc. No dice. Such admissions are only to try to convince the audience that..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Column

Dissenting Opinion

Utilitarian Approach

"...in this case is the law school and its admissions policies." As far as Morales' opinion is concerned, Harrington..."

Nov. 6, 1998 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Rebel With Many Causes

A Philosophical Divide

"...says; yet UT did not begin implementing affirmative action admissions practices until the early Eighties. "I think affirmative action..."

Sept. 11, 1998 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Postmarks

Think Positive

"...groups, except for Asian-Americans, have experienced a decline in admissions since the Hopwood decision. This indicates that the Hopwood..."

May 8, 1998 Column

Public Notice

Phew! Got Rid of Them!

"...Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum Volunteers staff museum, take admissions, greet and talk to visitors, show video about sculptor..."

March 27, 1998 Column by Kate X Messer

It's Hard to Say

Hating Speech at UT

"...the fallout from the Hopwood decision ending UT's race-based admissions policy, students have also had to contend with the..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Feature by Marc Levin

Doomed to Repeat It?

Former Students, Profs, and Lawyers Remember

"...so easily. According to statistics from the Law School's admissions office, only four black students enrolled in the 1997..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Feature by Cristina Smith

Gagging Graglia

Can We Talk?

"...and he calls upon four-year colleges to tighten their admissions standards so that students are forced to take school..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Feature by Lisa Tozzi

The Last Picture Show

Untimely Death of the Texas Union Film Program

"...significant decline in attendance, and a subsequent loss in admissions revenue that caused the program to run at a..."

Jan. 23, 1998 News Feature by Walter Cole

Page Two

"...There should be a limited number of single admissions available each night ($25 for Thursday, Friday, and Sunday;..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Column by Louis Black

Acting Right, Not White

Grim Stats, Racial Taunts Won't Deter These Students

"...it will be without affirmative action in the college admissions office and on the job is far from certain...."

Nov. 7, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

School of Thought

Montessori Eschews by-the-Book Teaching Methods

"...a free environment," admits Amber Miller, AMS' director of admissions and parent liaison, "but it's freedom with a lot..."

Sept. 26, 1997 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Short Cuts

"...are available at the Union Theater box office; single admissions are $2/$3. We'll have more details on the rest..."

Sept. 19, 1997 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...those schools to use the same grade point average admissions standards for all incoming students, including athletes. The declaration..."

June 13, 1997 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...would have required state-supported universities to use the same admissions criteria for scholarship athletes that it uses for all..."

May 30, 1997 News Feature

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...the reason is they've seen a sharp drop in admissions, due in large part to new "drug cocktails" and..."

Feb. 21, 1997 News Feature

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