Sending lewd photos via text message, one especially lecherous part of the phenomenon known as "sexting," is a foolish practice that has no place at the university.While college is often known as a place...

Members of the Executive Cabinet celebrated Tuesday after the Student Government Association House of Student Representatives approved the budget for fiscal year 2009-2010, which created a special fund for concerts and performances.

The budget, which totaled $335,000 from student body fees, included $23,000 for the Big Concert Initiative. The initiative is what SGA has contributed to the pool of money to host a concert featuring a popular performing artists like Pat Green, Programming Council Chair Kennedy Stewart said.

The final score in the Spring Game said the White team won 10-0, but in the court of public opinion it was hard to argue that the Purple lost the game.The defense wore the purple jerseys and overcame a...

Last week, the international community witnessed the latest session of the G-20, hosted in London.

The summit, which reunited the finance ministers and central bank governors of 19 countries, plus the European Union, had a tough agenda to tackle: draft a plan of action that would ease the devastating effect of the financial crisis through coordinated stimulus packages, the revamping of the rules of global financial markets and the halting of protectionist measures.

Opposition to a gun bill allowing licensed people to carry handguns on college campuses grows as students from the university and the University of Texas take to the streets with a petition to be presented in committee in the hopes of keeping the bill on the floor.

Jordan Adair, a sophomore communications major, and Jackie Mintz, a sophomore at UT, said they circulated the petition around both campuses.

Adair said she got four pages of signatures with about 30 signatures per sheet. She said she found few students who supported the bill, or who had no opinion.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area has been placed under a freeze warning until Tuesday morning as temperatures continue to drop, said Jennifer Dunn, a forecaster for the National Weather Service. The warning...

Freshmen will have more options next school year thanks to changes to the Freshman Interest Groups on campus, a university official said.

Additions to Freshman Interest Groups, residence hall communities based on specific themes, include the addition of a Creativity and Performing Arts group, which targets students who have an interest in the arts, from music to drama, and Pre-Health, which focuses on the medical field, said Heather Miller, assistant director of Residential Services.

Last September, when he was running for office, President Barack Obama made a promise that families making under $250,000 wouldn't see a tax increase of any kind.

Now Congress and the White House are using a new tax on cigarettes and tobacco products to balance federal spending, but even in spite of the good intentions of the tax to dissuade users from smoking, the timing puts unnecessary financial pressure on those who can't kick the habit.