“I know this much, The Eyes of Texas is our school song. We’re going to sing that song, we’re going to sing that proudly,” Sarkisian told reporters at his introductory press conference on Tuesday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is celebrating the end of the University of Texas’s bias response team, a university mechanism that has been used to suppress politically incorrect speech. A similar “bias response” team at the University of Michigan was shut down after a First Amendment activist group alleged that it stifled speech on campus.
The University of Texas recently announced that students will be permitted to reject letter grades during the 2020-2021 academic year. Under the new policy, students will be able to replace their letter grades with either a “pass” or a “fail” grade. The policy was designed to accommodate students that have been burdened by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
A University of Texas-San Antonio (UTSA) student was kicked out of her sorority over a pro-Trump TikTok post featuring a sign reading “All Lives Matter.” Sorority leadership at the school told the student that language suggesting “all lives matter” is “extremely hurtful” and “unsisterly.”
University of Texas fans stood and sang the school’s song, The Eyes of Texas, Saturday, despite the band’s refusal to play the song over claims that it is racist.
The University of Texas Longhorn band will not play the school song, “The Eyes of Texas,” this coming weekend.
Longhorn Band drum major Ally Morales has announced that she will never again play the school song, “The Eyes of Texas,” as criticism of the song grows in Austin.
An official at the University of Texas at Austin announced on Friday that parties and large gatherings will be banned for the fall semester. The new policy, which was designed to prevent the spread of Wuhan coronavirus, applies to both on and off-campus gatherings of 10 or more people.
The University of Texas announced a series of steps Monday intended to make itself more welcoming to its Black students but stopped short of shelving “The Eyes of Texas” song that a number of athletes have said needs to go because it has racist undertones.
University of Texas linebacker DeMarvion Overshown announced he is boycotting the team unless social justice demands are met by school officials.
University of Texas at Austin Constitutional Law Professor Richard Albert argued this week that the United States should revise the Constitution to remove “racist” and “gendered” language. In the op-ed published by The Hill, Albert claimed that the Constitution suggests that only men can be elected president of the United States.
Football players at the University of Texas at Austin have released a lengthy list of demands, urging the university to change the name of buildings on campus — including the stadium — and eliminate “The Eyes of Texas” as the school’s song in the name of inclusivity, claiming the racism that “has historically plagued” the campus.
The United States Department of Education is investigating the University of Texas over links to the Chinese lab in Wuhan potentially involved in the origin of the Chinese virus, along with the university’s ties to companies including Huawei and Zoom, the popular video conferencing app criticized for its poor security.
The University of Texas and Austin Public Health officials say 28 students tested positive for the Coronavirus following a spring break trip to Mexico. The students were part of a group of 70 who chartered a flight to Cabo San Lucas.
Over two dozen University of Texas students have tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus after returning from spring break trip in Mexico, Austin public health officials announced Tuesday.
A University of Texas at Austin dean argued this week that the term “Chinese virus” is inspiring hateful acts against Asian-American students on campus.
A couple in Austin, Texas, recently broke the Guinness World Record as the “Oldest Married Couple.”
University of Texas at Dallas student Kimberly Klein told Breitbart News that she was harassed by protesters on campus while recruiting members for her student group, Turning Point USA (TPUSA). Klein spoke to host Alex Marlow on Friday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily for the show’s weekly TPUSA campus report.
A homeless man has been arrested after allegedly threatening to “shoot all the rich kids” at the University of Texas.
Actor Matthew McConaughey, who was recently promoted to “professor of practice” at the University of Texas at Austin, will earn just $6,000 to teach a film course at the university this fall.
Recently published financial figures revealed that Harvard University has more money than half of the world’s countries. Harvard’s $38.3 billion endowment puts it ahead of 195 countries in terms of total wealth.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey will join the University of Texas as a professor who this fall will teach in the university’s Department of Radio-Television-Film.
University of Texas at Austin instructor and curator Alex Wild has doubled down on his past comments that Republcians want ethnic cleansing — this time he called President Donald Trump and his supporters Nazis. According to Wild, President Trump and his supporters “kill people of the wrong ethnicity as a matter of policy.”
University of Texas receiver Joshua Moore was arrested and charged with allegedly carrying a loaded gun in Austin last month.
A curator at the University of Texas at Austin Biodiversity Center, who also teaches classes, defended his claims that Republicans desire an “ethnic cleansing” in a tweet this week.
Big 12 football players who choose to mock the University of Texas’ “Horns Up” gesture, with the reciprocal “Horns Down” sign, will be penalized” like any other celebration foul.”
The University of Texas at Austin announced this week that it will offer free tuition to students from families that earn less than $65,000 per year.
Leftists are threatening to dox incoming freshmen students at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin), claiming they will release the students’ personal information if they are caught joining conservative groups on campus, namely the Young Conservatives of Texas (YCT) and Turning Point USA (TPUSA).
Students supporting Planned Parenthood at the University of Texas-San Antonio mocked members of the school’s Students for Life of America group in front of a pro-life display last month. One pro-Planned Parenthood student shouted that “aborting fetuses” is her “number one kink.”
Black pro-life activist Ryan Bomberger faced a smoke bomb attack during a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin this week.
