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Despite the Supreme Court's recent decision, affirmative action is alive and well -- for the dominating elite.

"...College admission is not a science; no matter how formally..."

June 27, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Admission

Tina Fey and Paul Rudd go rom-drahm, while Lily Tomlin runs circles around everyone.

"...and gave up for adoption while she was in college...."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Community Chest and Chance Rolled Into One

The Applicants

"...the city funding game board. Regarding this second phase, applicants were asked about how they prepared for the review..."

May 28, 1999 Arts Feature

The Long and Winding Road to 10-1

The steps to a December adoption of a district plan

"...Plan A: The Applicant Review Panel and the Independent Commission..."

Feb. 1, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Naked City

Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond

"...ordinance stipulates an added 1,000 square feet if the applicant has been granted a homestead exemption. The council may..."

Feb. 10, 2006 News Feature

The Slow Dying of Johnston High

State accountability standards may close a school on the edge of survival

"...Yet the campus sends 70% of its students to college and is the top-ranked Texas high school for sending..."

Nov. 30, 2007 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

The Road to 10-1

The City Council districting destination is settled. Is anybody driving the bus?

"...the City Auditor's Office released applications for the auditor's "Applicant Review Panel" (CPAs who will select the actual commission)..."

Feb. 1, 2013 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect ...

Part One: The Artists' Application Process

"...over in anxiety. And, because the application explicitly asks applicants to clip the forms together, not staple them, loose..."

March 26, 1999 Arts Feature

Getting Outside the Box

Will City Council decide to give job applicants with criminal records a "fair chance"?

"...specific job in question," and that they give "an applicant who is excluded by the screen the opportunity to..."

Oct. 9, 2015 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Postscripts

Not one day back from vacation and the growing list of noble souls who need to be congratulated is making Books Editor Clay Smith uneasy.

"...woman who's just fumbled through her freshman year at college and has to unearth deeply latent reserves of self-confidence..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Books Column by Clay Smith

The ACM Machine

Assistant City Managers Outlive Rumors of Their Demise

"...to thwart environmental causes. "He would actually say, `The applicant is our customer,'" reports one disgusted city board member...."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Promises, Promises

Two Austin neighborhoods vie to bring down federal dollars to help transform communities

"...ed to submit the proposal, so we are the applicant."..."

Aug. 6, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Goes Monster Hunting With Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Amongst Thieves

Evil Dead Rises and more added to festival lineup

"...Angel Applicant Director/Screenwriter: Ken August Meyer, Producers: Ken A. Meyer, Jason..."

Jan. 11, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

It's Hard to Say

Hating Speech at UT

"...for an uncomfortable debate on November 20 between the College Republicans (CR) and SAO. About 100 students, with about..."

Feb. 6, 1998 News Feature by Marc Levin

Mind the Bullock

"...it to Austin, we go to Marooned Records in College Station to get the Chronicle. Thanks for the great..."

March 28, 1997 Column

Politics Top 10

Top Ten Political Stories

"...by Doug Potter 4. ACC's Follies. The Austin Community College's (ACC) board of trustees took foible and folly to..."

Jan. 10, 1997 News Feature

Collateral Damage

Assessing the cost of service for minority veterans

"...paid late a couple of times," she says, an applicant risks being rejected. A Growing Problem..."

July 17, 2015 News Feature by Kahron Spearman

Betty Baker Rules

Love her or fear her, Austin's land-use queen rules the city her own way

"...Baker graduated from high school but skipped college, got married, moved to Houston, had a daughter, got..."

April 2, 2004 News Feature by Amy Smith

Technical Difficulties

Older professionals face a hard choice: leave Austin or go tech?

"...If you're more concerned with putting your kids through college than sampling microbrews at happy hour, Austin is a..."

March 2, 2001 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Contrary to statements of a used car sales rezoning applicant and the printed assessment of the Chronicle, I did..."

June 2, 2000 Column

Postmarks

Warning: blatant use of music knowledge within

"...financial information to help delineate whether assets for particular applicants were individually- or corporate-owned. All the examples given in..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Column

Coach's Corner

"...back in the ring, as if he were an applicant to run a boys prep school. An NFL Sunday..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Column by Andy "Coach" Cotton

Jay Trachtenberg’s Top Books of 2021

In a lost year, retrospectives and reprints with new context were comfort reads

"...the entire campus of a small upstate New York college, circa 1960, who is drafted to be on the..."

Dec. 17, 2021 Arts Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

AISD News: COVID Delays On-Campus Classes, Supe Search Down to 6

Students will return to virtual learning for the first three weeks at minimum

"...not released, were selected from a pool of 64 applicants based on a leadership profile assembled by JG Consulting...."

July 17, 2020 News Feature by Kimberley Jones

An 'Open' Search for AISD Chief

Timetable to allow stakeholder input

"...there is no point publicizing the names of failed applicants, or candidates who were headhunted but were not interested...."

July 4, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Real Housewives of Ciudad Juárez

Living double lives in the shadow of the border

"...possible to file a "hardship waiver," arguing that the applicant's absence from America was harming the U.S.-citizen spouse. But..."

Oct. 18, 2013 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

A Capital Idea

How Josh Baer helps people 'quit their jobs' to join the bustling hive at Capital Factory

"...before he could even attend his five-year reunion for college. When he was 24 and working within the incubator..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Screens Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Showdown at David Street: City Regs Broken at Will

Gasp! City staff helps developer skirt the law.

"...which could be leased to as many as 12 college students, on a single-family lot located on a quiet..."

April 30, 2010 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

What's Historic?

Latest arguments over historic zoning sound like déjà vu

"...volunteers facilitated by Sadowsky. If the commission deems an applicant's house worthy of historic zoning, the application then travels..."

Feb. 26, 2010 News Feature by Wells Dunbar

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

"...scathing statement Monday afternoon, tying the one winning private-school applicant to Jim Leininger, Gov. Rick Perry's high-dollar supporter who..."

Aug. 15, 2008 News Feature

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