Sports
August 27, 2015
Allen’s Eagle Stadium Is Set To Officially Reopen On Friday
The most expensive high school football stadium in the world will get a triumphant return after its embarrassing closure in 2014.
Education
Sports
August 21, 2015
Sam Ukwuachu Sentenced To Ten Years of Probation For Second-Degree Sexual Assault
The sentencing phase of the trial began immediately after Ukwuachu was found guilty Thursday night, and reached its conclusion Friday afternoon.
The Culture
August 19, 2015
Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie
Life and learning in the smallest school district in Texas.
Texas History
August 19, 2015
Will Jim Crow Be on the Test?
The textbooks are all right.
The Daily Post
August 18, 2015
What’s Changed Since Baylor’s Viral Sorority Recruitment Video?
As the University of Alabama’s Alpha Phi chapter faces blowback, we remember a different school's sorority recruitment video.
The Daily Post
August 17, 2015
Why Are So Many Texas Students Struggling With STAAR?
Experts speculate that the test is measuring the wrong thing.
Politics & Policy
August 14, 2015
An Anarchist Icelander Walks Into a Texas University . . .
What can an anarchist from Iceland teach America about politics? More than some might think.
The Daily Post
August 13, 2015
The University Of Texas Is Moving The Jefferson Davis Statue From the Main Mall
Four other Confederates will maintain their vigil over the university, but Jefferson Davis is being moved out of plain sight.
The Daily Post
July 17, 2015
How the GED Became More Difficult, and Why Texans are Trying to Fight It
The high school equivalency test is harder than ever before, and critics in Texas are seeking out other options.
The Daily Post
July 16, 2015
Confederate Symbols & The News: When Is It About Race?
Vandals leave racist messages and a Nazi symbol after breaking into a house, and the media fails to mention it. When can we talk about racism?
The Daily Post
July 8, 2015
Baylor Drops Ban on ‘Homosexual Acts,’ But Does That Actually Change Anything?
It’s a great step, but what it amounts to in practice isn’t quite clear.
Politics & Policy
June 11, 2015
The Class of 2015
Illustrations by Nicki Longoria. Click to enlarge.Elsewhere in this month’s issue, our political team considers which state legislators have earned our respect and which ones remind us why the stately granite building at Twelfth Street and Congress Avenue has long been the butt of countless jokes
Sports
June 4, 2015
The New UT President Wants to Sell Beer at Football Games
UNT and SMU are among the handful of schools in the country where fans can get drunk while they’re at the game—and new UT President Greg Fenves wants Darrell K. Royal Stadium to join them.
Sports
May 22, 2015
Bucky the Bronc Rode off Into the Sunset With His Honorary Diploma From UT-Pan American
Farewell, sweet bronc.
The Daily Post
May 19, 2015
What You Should Know About Elementary School “Calm” and “Focus” Rooms
Time-out is an age-old punishment. But do the controversial “calm rooms” and “focus rooms” employed in Plano and New Braunfels go too far?
The Daily Post
May 18, 2015
15 Things We Learned About Matthew McConaughey From His University of Houston Commencement Speech
More McConaughfacts for you to bring up at the next McConaissance Faire.
The Daily Post
May 12, 2015
One in Twenty DPS Officers Is Female and Other Staggering Texas Law Enforcement Statistics
Solid reporting from the University of Texas School of Journalism investigates the gender and racial makeup of law enforcement in Texas.
The Culture
May 8, 2015
Corps Values
Alyssa Michalke was recently named the first female commander of Texas A&M’s corps of cadets. It’s been a long time coming.
The Daily Post
May 8, 2015
About That Outbreak of Chlamydia in West Texas…
A small high school in Crane, Texas, just confirmed that 20 of its 300 students have been diagnosed with Chlamydia, spurring a revisitation of the district’s abstinence-only sex education curriculum.
Music
May 5, 2015
A West Texas High School Suspended Its Band Teacher for Having a Beard
There is something weird going on in Christoval ISD.
Politics & Policy
April 28, 2015
Banned Deep-Fat Fryers From Some School Cafeterias Could Make a Comeback
“It’s not about french fries, it’s about freedom,” ag commissioner Sid Miller said.
The Daily Post
April 28, 2015
A Student Sat Almost Naked on Campus to Make a Point About Objectification and Assault
Reaction to the Texas State student’s performance art project ranged from supportive to critical.
The Daily Post
April 23, 2015
Texas’s Problem With Truancy Is Getting Some Well-Deserved Attention
The way Texas punishes truancy is downright Kafka-esque—and it’s finally getting a lot of attention.
The Daily Post
April 22, 2015
Eisenhower High Abandons Problematic Prom Dress Policy, Teens Rejoice
A Houston-area high school chose to drop a policy that would have required all female prom guests to submit photos of their dresses for “pre-approval.”
The Daily Post
April 17, 2015
Dress Code-Related Internet Outrage Is Fine, But Probably Won’t Change a Thing
A Facebook post documenting a Texas student’s dress code violation went viral earlier this month, but the school hasn’t and probably won’t change its policy.
The Daily Post
April 9, 2015
A Houston Area High School Teacher Gave His Students a Lesson Full of Anti-Muslim Propaganda
An unnamed teacher at Foster High School, in Richmond, distributed a lesson that included “If taken hostage by radical Islamists, what to do,” and a very broad estimate of how many jihadists there are around the world.
The Daily Post
April 3, 2015
Houston Area Police Seem to Be Lifting Their Crimefighting Techniques From Jonah Hill Movies
A Brazoria County task force executed a 21 Jump Street-style sting in area high schools over the past several months, culminating in the arrests of six students.
Music
March 30, 2015
Here Are Some Professors With PhDs in Selena
Even academics know what there is to learn from La Reina de Tex-Mex.
The Daily Post
March 13, 2015
Glass Frat Houses
In the aftermath of the racist Sigma Alpha Epsilon video, Texas is in no position to throw stones at Oklahoma. And we are not alone in that, sadly.
Business
March 4, 2015
Austin Tech Bros From #BeSomebody Are Losing the Fight They Picked Against Local High School Students
If, as Mr. T once said, you need to “be somebody, or be somebody’s fool,” the people behind the Austin tech start-up #BeSomebody appear to have made the wrong choice.
Health
March 3, 2015
Saginaw ISD Placed an Assistant Principal on Leave for Experiencing Uterine Bleeding
The school district claimed in a letter that they believed that the bleeding incidents were caused by “severe anxiety;” the woman and her doctor have documentation showing that it was an emergency stemming from a problem with her IUD. But should it even matter what exactly caused her medical emergency?
The Daily Post
March 2, 2015
George R. R. Martin Gave the Texas A&M Library Its Five Millionth Book
That’s very nice of you, George. Now where is Book Six???
The Daily Post
February 10, 2015
A UT Fraternity Threw Another Racist Party
Texas Fiji said the party was supposed to be “Western themed,” which guests somehow interpreted as “border patrol.”
The Daily Post
February 6, 2015
A Gay Student Left His Private School To Avoid Discrimination
Austin Wallis posted a video to YouTube this week that details his difficult experience of being gay in a private, Lutheran school in Houston.
The Daily Post
February 4, 2015
A Closer Look at the Texas High School Student-Teacher Sex Epidemic
In most states, as the old saying goes, fifteen will get you twenty. In Texas, twenty can get you twenty, if you are employed by a school district in any capacity.
The Daily Post
January 21, 2015
Five of the Riciest Things That Rice Ever Riced
A few of our brainiest school’s most brazen assaults on common sense, good taste, and sacred Collies.
The Daily Post
January 21, 2015
The University of Texas: Home of the Sugar Babies?
As tuition prices climb and student debt rates increase, UT-Austin students look for, ahem, financial aid on an online dating site with a weird twist.
Film & TV
January 6, 2015
“Taken” Isn’t a Documentary, Liam Neeson Tells South Texas Parents
Who knew part of the curriculum in South Texas schools would involve teaching parents the difference between fact and fiction?
Sports
November 20, 2014
Is Texas A&M Really Trying to Duck UT in a Possible Bowl Game?
Talk of reprising the ol' A&M-Texas rivalry in a bowl game has led to reports that the Aggies might be avoiding the Longhorns in such a scenario.
The Daily Post
November 17, 2014
A Houston Third Grade Teacher Is in Trouble For Making Racial Slurs on a Public Access Show
Not long after a Duncanville teacher was fired for tweeting "kill yourselves" to "crackers" who wanted to argue with her opinions about Ferguson, another teacher, this time in Houston, is under fire for using racially-charged language.
Politics & Policy
November 12, 2014
Far From the Madding Crowd
Diana Natalicio’s under-the-radar transformation of the University of Texas at El Paso.
Sports
November 12, 2014
Texas A&M Students Shouted Down a Westboro Baptist Church Demonstration With Yell Practice
The 101-year-old Aggie tradition found a new purpose on Monday morning.
Sports
November 10, 2014
Texas, Let’s Get to Know Flower Mound High School’s Lauren Cox, the Top Women’s Basketball Prospect in the Country
The six-foot-four junior has already made a fan of LeBron James.
Sports
November 6, 2014
The UT-RGV Mascot Saga Ends with The Vaqueros and Apparently Nobody Is Happy
After an absurdly divisive process, the UT-RGV mascot debate has ended with an absurdly divisive name.
Sports
November 3, 2014
Could What Marshall Junior High Is Doing with Its Football Program Save the Game?
The existential threat to football comes from parents who are terrified of their children suffering from CTE in their thirties and forties. In the East Texas small city of Marshall, a coach is trying to mitigate that concern.
Film & TV
October 30, 2014
Students, Beware of “Breast Perception Studies”
A 23-year-old UT-D graduate at Google allegedly attempted to extort nude photos from his former classmates by posing as a breast researcher.
The Daily Post
October 22, 2014
UT’s Football Program Is the Most Profitable in the Country. By a Lot.
You can make jokes about the team's 3-4 record, but $109 million in revenue has Texas football laughing all the way to the bank.
News & Politics
October 21, 2014
The Creation of Baylor
Never has the Waco university been so big, so rich, so athletically powerful, or so committed to becoming the country’s first elite Protestant university. What does its ambition mean for its identity?
Lead
October 13, 2014
Get Bucky
How the merger of two South Texas universities has stirred some complicated feelings about a fuzzy bronco.
Sports
September 18, 2014
The Debate Over What The Mascot For The New UT-RGV Campus Is Getting Heated, Y’all
Residents and alumni hate all the suggestions, Valley cities are passing resolutions to call their neighbors out, and somehow "Bears" is still a viable option.