Category: College
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Life Certificate
Hook ‘Em!
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Seeing Race
The moment that many white students walk into my course they are experiencing a series of firsts: The first time many of them have had a black teacher or professor. The first time many of them have ever taken a class dealing with African-American history. The first time many of them have been in…
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Father Hesburgh
Father Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., was president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987. He increased the stature and size of the university, and greatly influenced the areas of civil rights and higher education in the United States. Source: University of Notre Dame Fr. Hesburgh passed away last night at 97. While plenty…
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Texas Legohorns
Meet Drew Finkel, the Longhorn who built the UT Tower and DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium out of Legos. Installing a tablet into the scoreboard of the stadium, playing Longhorn highlights is my favorite touch. Source: Lego Land | An Alcalde Interactive Feature
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Today’s Office
AT&T can’t keep the Internet on, so a working nomad.
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Texas Fight!
We all went to the annual Orange and White game—the annual internal scrimmage. It is a free event, so, as a family of five and normal game tickets costing ~$60-75/each, it is the closest thing to a UT football game we’re going to go to in a while.