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Texas student media shifts administrative hands, leaving students to question implications of the change
Oversight of the Texas Student Media at the University of Texas at Austin will shift to the Moody College of Communication after what students say were “vague” and “brief” conversations with them about the transition.
Texas school district to appeal order allowing cheerleaders' religious banners
A group of Texas cheerleaders who won a state-court ruling that upheld their right to display Christian-themed banners at football games is now facing an appeal filed by their school district.
Texas student media board votes to cut staff pay, keep printing schedule
Student staff at the University of Texas’ student newspaper will take a major pay cut next year but the paper will keep its five-day-a-week printing schedule under a budget approved Friday by the Texas Student Media Board.
Daily Texan staff, alumni speak out about proposed budget cuts
Daily Texan staff and alumni are speaking out against a proposed budget cut that would cost the paper a day of printing each week to make up for declining ad sales.
Texas cheerleaders fight to keep religious banners at football games
Biblical verse-quoting banners made by Texas high school cheerleaders have become the center of a legal showdown over religious speech in schools.
Daily Texan newspaper boxes will be allowed outside journalism school
A plan that didn’t allow newspaper boxes – even for the school’s paper – in front of the University of Texas’ journalism school is going away after public pressure.
Texas girls arrested, facing felony charges for making fake Facebook profile
Two young students in Hood County have been arrested for creating a fake Facebook account using the name of a classmate, and were taken to a juvenile detention facility on felony charges.
Tarleton State hit with $110,000 fine for violating Clery Act
When Erin Cooper-Baize filed a public records request at Tarleton State University requesting on-campus police reports, she never anticipated it would land her alma mater a $110,000 fine six years later for failing to report a number of crimes occurring from 2003 to 2005.
Thieves dump 250 copies of Texas college paper
About 250 copies of the student newspaper The Ranger were stolen from racks at San Antonio College on April 18.