Category: Academic
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Atlantis and Human Hubris
Written By: Sridevi HariharanGraphic By: Aruna Muthupillai Humans today use technology akin to godlike power overpowering us, and this raises timeless questions about its unintended ethical consequences. Advancements may have the potential to push towards progress, but the problems they could create, such as the generation of electronic waste, resource depletion, and environmental strain cannot…
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Where Do Video Games Fit In College Life?
Written By: Sridevi HariharanGraphic By: Jessye Fan College life is a time of hectic schedules, 8 a.m. lectures, sleeplessness, and part-time jobs. It’s a time of learning how to balance homework with social life. During such a tug-of-war, it’s only natural that some students turn to video games, and put their real lives on hold.…
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Tracing the Origins of Forgiveness
Written By: Rebecca Gonzalez Graphic By: Jessye Fan With Greek literature being the first to develop literary genres in the Western world, comes a very broad and special arrangement of all sorts of prevalent genres. At glance, Greco-Roman literature can be broken into four stages, each pertaining to their own individual stylistic glamorization of a…
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Academic Spotlight: An Extended Warm Welcome to Dr. Abigail Staysa to the 40 Acres
Written by: William Gleason II New school years come with fresh faces, daunting new classes, new anticipations, but also new professors. Dr. Abigail Staysa is a recent Ph.D. graduate from the University of Notre Dame. This is her first semester teaching at the University of Texas at Austin and she has joined the community of…
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Making Registration Less Painful
Written by Ashley Mireles.Graphic by Quynhmai Tran. – Twice a year, students are asked to complete the grueling task of enrolling for classes. As spring registration looms once again, we must address the flaws with UT’s current system. UT is considered a world-class institution, but its registration system doesn’t reflect that. Outdated and disorganized, the…
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Animal Overpopulation at Austin Animal Center
Written by Bismarck Andino. Graphic by Emma Robinson. – With a 20% increase of homeless animals this year and only 19 full-time animal care employees to care for them, the Austin Animal Center has experienced chronic overcrowding for the past two years, an Animal Advisory commissioner said Oct. 14 during a meeting where the Commission approved a set…
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Heidegger, Poetry, and Environment
Written by Noah Van Hooser. Graphic by Emma Robinson. – Although looming climate catastrophe has induced a flurry of policy proposals, impassioned punditry, and even occasional existential reorientations, it seems all varieties of environmentalism have not gone quite far enough. All too often, the language of possible ecologies inherits the baggage of reform. It is…
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An Examination of Math
Written by Hector Osegueda. Graphic by Quynhmai Tran. – I’ll be the first to admit that I’m bad at math. My high school report card would be straight A’s all the way down until, quite rudely, a math class reminded me of my shortcomings with a big fat C. I was always elated whenever I…
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Nia Wilson
Written by Bevyn Howard. Graphic by Emma Robinson. – **Content Warning: Violence** Late one Sunday night on July 22, 2018 a black woman was mercilessly murdered. Nia Wilson and her two sisters Letifah and Tashiya were transferring at the McCarthur BART station in Oakland, California when a man attacked them, unprovoked, stabbing Nia and Letifah.…
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Proud, Driven, Leading: The Experience of First-Generation Students
Written by Christina Lopez. Graphic by Emma Robinson. Originally published as part of the Spring 2019 “Challenge” Issue.– For Antonio Limon, college was never a question of if, but where, he was going to go. He remembers his mom always encouraging him to achieve A’s in his classes and volunteer to boost his prospects of…
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