Vivien Ayers

It’s safe to say The Daily Texan has defined my time at college. My weekends have always consisted of researching pitches and brainstorming story angles, my weekdays of attending classes between interviews and crunching out rough drafts of stories. At night, I could be found in the Basement finishing edits of reporters’ stories and preparing to do it all again the next day. 
I would not be the journalist I am today if I had not joined The Daily Texan in the fall of my freshman year. When I was a...

Dear readers,
As former President Jay Hartzell wrote in the Houston Chronicle in May 2024, “There is a long, proud history of protest at The University of Texas at Austin.”
In 1944, 8,000 students marched from the Tower through downtown Austin carrying a coffin marked with the words “Academic Freedom.” In 1969, students climbed into trees to prevent their removal, in what became known as the Battle of Waller Creek. In October 2023, following attacks in Gaza, students organized vigils and classro...

University police arrested a University employee, who is a registered sex offender in Oregon,  on Sept. 6 for what officials believe to be failure to register in Texas, a third-degree felony in the state. 
UTPD detained Nicholas Clisby, who asked to be referred to as Nicholas Clisby-Sabathia, a McCombs School of Business human resources employee. The department received a tip that he had not registered his sex offender status within seven days of moving to Texas as required by state law despite...

“What starts here changes the world” — the University’s motto brands all promotional materials and is a hallmark of the school itself. 
What starts here does change the world, but not in the way many think. It starts with academic and research resources, scholarships and campus operating expenses, which are partially funded by the 2.1 million acres of oil and gas fields located hundreds of miles away in West Texas.
These lands comprise the Permanent University Fund, a revenue source given to the...

In Littlefield Fountain, at least 50 champagne corks float in the water as the aftermath of students’ graduation photoshoots. A forgotten receipt from the William C. Powers Activity Center Chick-fil-A location whistles in a slight breeze as it lies in the grass outside the building. Water bubbles in East Campus’ Waller Creek as it’s forced to trickle around the plastic casing of a 24-pack of Sparkle Purified Water wrapped around the East 23rd Street Bridge.
The Sustainability Tracking, Assessmen...