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Click on the Text denoted in red font on the side bar to visit other sites in this grid 1933 campus 1934, the decision was made to tear down Old Main eventually. The building was unsafe, and part of it had already been condemned. The Tower was the replacement. main building (2).jpg main building (1).jpg…
1999 RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE FACULTY
April 19, 1999 – Faculty states that athletic programs should be integrated into the University governance structure and not perceived as an independent function of the University. It was decided that all academic matters related to student athletes should be implemented in accordance with academic policies. Recommendations were made. The Faculty members voted 14-13 to…
Eyes of Texas
The Eyes of Bevo are upon you. This whole discussion is quite simple for me. No one sings the Eyes of Texas to salute racism. Over the last 55 years, I had no clue that the words might be indirectly perceived as racist. The song is the heart and soul of a diverse university that…
1923 Santa Rita
The 1959 Longhorn band memorializes the Santa Rita UT owns 2,108,966 acres of Texas land. In the mid-1800s, the legislator thought it was worthless and God-forsaken West TX brush country, and at the time, it was. The New York investors who staked corral Cromwell to drill on it were so skeptical they named the project…