What I've Done
- After six years as head of the UT-Austin police department, Chief Robert Dahlstrom will retire in May. He was voted Chief of the Year by UT System in 2012.
- In his annual State of the University address Thursday afternoon, UT President Bill Powers spoke about the achievements and changes taking place at Texas’s largest and most prestigious public university.
- University of Texas personnel confirm that senior leadership notified staff it may be late as 2 p.m. when building can be cleared. Around 11:45 a.m., UT released a statement saying all activities except for classes with resum...
- The group of protestors rallied in front of The Daily Texan office this afternoon to protest the editorial cartoon ran in Tuesday’s paper featuring the media in the Trayvon Martin case. The group listed a number of demands,...
- The prime suspect of Barrera's murder and several attacks on Central Austin women on New Year's Day was found dead inside his home Jan. 12, according to Austin Police.
- The Central Austin serial attacker is still on the loose and responsible for at least four attacks, including the murder of Esme Barrerra. An Austin woman who was attacked in her home on New Year’s Day and flashed by a man ...
- An Austin man has been arrested in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found in a trash bin on North Lamar on Monday.
- APD is investigating what they have labeled the first homicide of 2012, when a body was found inside a home just outside West Campus near 31st Street.
- The cuts will occur because Congress extended the payroll tax cut two days after state agencies had already processed their monthly payroll, but UT said employees’ February checks will be adjusted to reimburse them.
- The University of Texas University Democrats released a press release today in response to another offensive tweet from the president of the College Republicans, who are once again under fire.
- An Aggie alum has been raising a longhorn with its horns turned down by weighing down the horns gradually over time, The Alcalde reports.
- Three former members of a University of Texas fraternity are currently suspected of running a drug trafficking ring that may reach across state lines.
- Adam Grote, 22, was struck and killed while walking on the side of Interstate 35 at 3 a.m. Sunday morning after his friends thought he may have taken the wrong bus.
- Jordan Etier, senior second baseman for the Longhorns, was arrested over the weekend and has been charged with evading arrest and possession of marijuana.
- A first-year University of Texas physics graduate student faces trial today on espionage charges for leaking Iranian nuclear secrets to the United States and “communicating with a hostile government.” Under Iranian law, c...
- The national office of Kappa Alpha Order suspended the UT chapter for one year in June, but the local chapter quit the national organization and has been independently operating as Texas Omicron.
- A Texas chapter of the ONE campaign was created this semester and will participate in the intercollegiate ONE Campus Challenge. The chapter held their first social Wednesday night and will hold their first official meeting Mo...
- UT President Bill Powers warned his faculty and staff that the university will likely lose 16.5 percent of current federal funding for the 2012-2013 school year.
- Four people are in the hospital after an overnight shooting Downtown, which police believe may possibly be gang-related.
- Genevieve Dullum, 20, has been fighting to not only survive after a bone marrow transplant three years ago, but also to complete her nursing degree from the University of Texas.
