university of texas at austin
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High School Valedictorian Stripped of Ranking Due to an Administrative Error, but She Thinks It's Retaliation for Critical Graduation Speech
Destiny Brannon had her life planned out. As top student and valedictorian of DeSoto ISD’s class of 2018, she was guaranteed to receive one year of free tuition at a state university, a perk that is given to every valedictorian at a Texas public high school. Destiny had gone to freshman orientation at the University…
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University of Texas Police Chased Off Some White Boys Having a Tiki-Torch Protest on Campus
Because whiteness is nothing if not unoriginal, police at the University of Texas at Austin say they discovered a small group of white supremacists trying to re-create the Charlottesville, Va., tiki-torch warmup party on campus early Saturday morning. According to KVUE-TV and the Daily Texan, campus police were patrolling the university’s South Mall area when they…
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University of Texas Removing 4 Confederate Statues From Campus
When students at the University of Texas at Austin return to classes Aug. 30, they may notice that the air on campus is cleaner, and the view clearer and brighter, since the university took action to remove four second-place trophies (aka Confederate statues) from campus. University President Greg Fenves announced the removal of the statues…
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The Root’s Young Futurists, Where Are They Now: Nicholas Cobb
Nicholas Cobb is a young man driven to serve others. The budding philanthropist started Comfort and Joy, a nonprofit that raises money to buy jackets for the homeless in North Texas. A computer science wiz, Cobb, even built the Comfort and Joy website by himself. Now the 20-year-old altruist is enrolled at the University of Texas at…