Regent Wallace Hall accused of lambasting UT System Chancellor Francisco...
In an email to UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, Paul Foster, chairman of the UT System Board of Regents, suggested Regent Wallace Hall accused Cigarroa of not doing his job weeks before...
View ArticleLISTEN: 'Stealth dorms' vote, Regent Wallace Hall update and tuition proposal...
In this week's podcast, Jacob Kerr, Amanda Voeller and guests Alyssa Mahoney and Madlin Mekelburg talk about Austin City Council voting to reduce the occupancy limit for unrelated adults in single...
View ArticleAttorney Allan Gerson talks about accountability with international law and...
In a talk at the John B. Connally Center for Justice on Monday, Allan Gerson, chairman of AG International Law, PLLC discussed the deportation of Nazi collaborators in the 1970s, lawsuits against Libya...
View ArticleCivil Rights Summit Liveblog — Day 2
Read recaps of Wednesday's events by scrolling down here. Click here for the liveblog of Thursday's events, which include addresses by President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush.Updated...
View ArticleCivil rights icons recall experiences on the front lines
On May 4, 1961, a few months before President Barack Obama was born, John Lewis and the rest of Freedom Riders were prepared to die as they rode public buses through the deep South to protest...
View ArticleSurveillance, discrimination stifling Muslim community
Editor’s Note: Rizvi is an active member of all seven Muslim student organizations on campus, serving as an officer for United Muslims Relief and as founder and chairman of Texas Muslim Council.Three...
View ArticleUpdated: Regent Hall says he will not resign in letter to Chairman Foster
Update (May 20, 12:32 p.m.): In the letter, released on Tuesday by attorney Allan Van Fleet, Hall crticized Chairman Paul Foster's handling of the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency...
View ArticleHouse transparency committee co-chairs ask regents not to remove President...
The House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations co-chairs sent a letter on Monday to Paul Foster, UT System Board of Regents chairman, asking the board not to make any employment...
View ArticleRegents express disagreement with recent Moody's analysis
Paul Foster, UT System Board of Regents chairman, and Regent Jeffery Hildebrand said they "strongly disagreed" with Moody's Investor Services determining recent tensions in the System were “credit...
View ArticleDespite attack site, state Sen. Robert Nichols maintains moral high ground
As the Texas Observer reported on Tuesday, an attack site has been launched against state Sen. Robert Nichols, R-Jacksonville, that derides his supposed liberalism. This despite any upcoming election...
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