Category: Academic
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Entrepreneurship and the Liberal Arts
Written by Yulissa Chavez. Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss. Students in the College of Liberal Arts generally do not have immediate access to start becoming entrepreneurs. The lack of access and encouragement to pursue outlying goals that the College of Liberal Arts does not often promote can give students in the College of Liberal Arts the…
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The Two Ahmeds
Written by Tarek Zaher. Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss. In 2007, six years after the horrific 9/11 attacks and the resultant cultural backlash against Muslims in America, just about the worst thing possible that can happen to a nine-year-old Muslim boy trying to survive socially in rural East Texas happens. Jeff Dunham, a famous ventriloquist and…
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The Mythical Latina
Written by Ariane Stier. Graphic by Peyton Cabaniss. We have all met her, in some form or fashion: the media’s mythical Latina. She has a bombshell hourglass figure, light tan skin, long dark hair, and a thick accent from an unspecified foreign country. She might be a maid, and most likely she is an…
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The Power of Alternative Breaks
Written by Yulissa Chavez. Photo by Yulissa Chavez. The Alternative Breaks Program (AB) within the Longhorn Center for Community Engagement aims to help students become more aware of the social problems that occur outside of the UT Austin community. This year, the coordinators of the Alternative Breaks Program decided to bring their team of seven students…
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LAC’s Inaugural Undergraduate Research Competition
Written by Christina Lopez. Photos by Christina Lopez. Liberal Arts Council’s Academic Affairs Committee hosted their first Undergraduate Research Competition on Saturday, April 28th. Ten undergraduate students presented their research to a faculty panel composed of a variety of liberal arts professors. The presenters had ten minutes to explain their research, followed by five minutes of…
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Professor Lorraine Pangle: An Educator and Philosopher in Search of the Truth in Happiness and Love
“Academia, leadership, and professorship are pillars of the UT Austin community. In the first article for our new series, Professor Profiles, Dr. Pangle shares how her intellectual curiosities have been directed towards projects that benefit UT.”
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Redefining Computing: How Supercomputers are Changing Research
Written by Varun Hukeri. For the past sixteen years, the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin has pioneered technological innovation and leadership, setting itself up as the gold standard among colleges and universities nationwide. That’s why it was fitting when, in 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a…
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A Brief Survey of the Modernist Canon
Written by Nathan Allen Pastrano. “Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.” – Richard Wright Writing is more than just for entertainment purposes. It is a way to speak truth. The early 20th century marked a turning point in literary history for marginalized groups,…
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Obtaining the Best: The Acquisitions Process of the Harry Ransom Center
Written by Shae Carey. On the corner of 21st and Guadalupe Street lies a building that houses the collections of some of the greatest authors in the world. One might wonder how the University of Texas is able to obtain the materials of such prestigious figures, including John Steinbeck, Gabriel García Márquez, Jack Kerouac, Lewis…
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The Value of a Liberal Arts Degree
Written by Hira Vayani Unemployment, easy, useless––these are some common words people use to describe a liberal arts degree. These ignorant statements, however, are only possible through language, which has been developed through culture––the core of liberal arts. The reason this ignorance persists is that many people do not know what liberal arts means. Some…
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