Bad Boo Boos
We’ve all had moments where we experience injuries that can impact our daily lives. Even spraining a wrist or an ankle can make getting...
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Love in college: The Beginning of Something Great
Do you know what love is? Have you ever wondered what it feels like to have someone love you with all your flaws, with everything you have...
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How Journaling Made Me Happier
Recently for a class, I had to write a daily journal. At the end of each day, I wrote what happened and then rated how I felt on a scale of...
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How to be an Ally during Hispanic Heritage Month
If you didn’t know, September 15th-October 15th is National Hispanic Heritage Month! If you’re trying to figure out how you can support the...
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The Race for the COVID Vaccine
Now I’m sure we have all heard of the Space Race era of the 1960’s between the United States and the Soviet Union. This was a time in which...
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From Behind Enemy Lines to the Hollywood Sign: How a former secret agent is making her way from the battlefield to your home
Today, I want to feature a special person who I have had the great privilege of knowing. Her name is Tracy Walder. To say this woman wears...
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Sandra Day O’Connor: An Advocate for Gender Equality
Sandra Day O’Connor is the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States of America. Her career serves as testament to her ambition and capabilities as a highly intelligent and influential woman.
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Green Events' Cool New Bandwagon: Zero-Waste
When was the last time you seriously considered recycling--or composting, or up-cycling, or completing minimizing waste all together by...
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Annette Strauss Would Be Proud: Three Female Faces Promoting Civic Engagement
If you would like to support the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life and any of its affiliated programs directed, like TX Votes and the New Politics Forum, please visit the following link to date: https://bit.ly/2I2kC5i .
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Requesting More Inclusion for Muslim Voices
The University of Texas bolsters over 51,000 students , every single one coming from diverse backgrounds and living situations. The...
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Legally Blonde and Honestly Brilliant
"What? Like it's hard?" Ever since 2001 when Legally Blonde catapulted Reese Witherspoon into stardom. she has been shaking things up in Hollywood—on and off screen.
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Problems Perpetrated by the Model Minority Myth
For my Journalism class I had the opportunity to interview people and write an article about the Model Minority Myth and how it hurts college students, so I thought it would be a nice topic to share with the readers of HerCampus.
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Why Gun Control is Still Important
Gun control laws won’t take away your rights and it’s more important now than ever to realize and fight for the safety we all crave.
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Texas Talks
You will convince yourself that this is the life you chose, not the one laid out in front of you. You will want to fight back. To let your ideas be heard and let them out into the world, because you can have great ideas too right? Wrong.
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The Queen of West Campus
She’s just over 6 lbs (really watching her figure), fur ball– sometimes confused with a cotton ball, untier of shoes, and the cuddliest of...
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Meet HDFS & Travel Master Vanessa Medrano
Meet HDFS & Travel Master Vanessa Medrano Hometown: El Paso Year: 3 rd Year Major: HDFS How have you liked Austin so far? It’s a lot...
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Meet Refugee Advocate: Evan Rathjen
Before I was involved in LARA, I hadn’t met a refugee. I didn’t realize that there were student, faculty, and staff refugees here on campus and actively contributing to the Austin community.
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Grace, Why are You a Christian?
How do you articulate an experience that is so unique to the individual that any other human being, Christian or not, could understand exactly what the mental and emotional processes are like when deciding that Christianity, or any religion really, was right for him or her?
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Say G'Day to Elizabeth!
This has been a particularly boring semester for me, due in large part to the fact that my roommate and best friend of three years is in the land Down Under! Elizabeth Roach is a third year history major who friends describe as supportive, adventurous, and passionate. Of course I miss her terribly, but she's having the time of her life. What's she been up to? I asked!
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Meet Julia O'Hanlon
"I am incredibly passionate about ending inequalities and inequities in the world."
