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My last comment on TEOT It looks like The Daily Roundup comments have already been closed. That was fast!!! This TEOT thing is only being kept alive by the media and UT sports sites. The committee did the best that they could, but it looks like the people who want to see it banned weren't going to accept their findings unless they aligned exactly with what they already thought [in many ways based on falsehoods and vague guilt by association arguments]. Five minutes of Google the other night led me to the likely melodic origins of "The Levee Song" or "I've Been Working on the Railroad" and it ...

The Briscoe Center for American History has acquired the prized archives of photographer Jacques Lowe, best known for his images of the Kennedy family, including scenes from John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign and his first year in the White House. “This acquisition was more than a few years in the making," said Don Carleton, director of the Briscoe Center at the University of Texas, "if you consider that I first met Jacques Lowe in the late 1990s, and we discussed his archive before his death." Lowe died May 12, 2001. The Lowe collection covers his entire career as a photojournalist an...

"The Lowe Archive is a significant addition to the center's photojournalism and documentary photography collections," Don Carleton, executive director of the Briscoe Center, said. "It is hard to overstate the importance of Lowe's work in shaping the public image of the Kennedy family. However, this collection holds an even greater significance for historical research. Like so many of our photojournalism collections, Lowe's entire career provides critical visual evidence for the study of the recent past." Lowe was born in Germany in 1930 and emigrated to the United States after spending World ...

'The Eyes of Texas' has “no racist intent,” according to report By Rudy Koski and FOX 7 Austin Digital Team Published  ‘The Eyes of Texas’ report finds song’s intent ‘not overtly racist’ Student-athletes asked UT-Austin to drop the school song during Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020. AUSTIN, Texas - A comprehensive report from a committee tasked to look at the University of Texas at Austin's alma mater song has been released and one of the committee's findings was that the "intent of 'The Eyes of Texas' was not overtly racist." The commit...

'The Eyes of Texas' has “no racist intent,” according to report By Rudy Koski and FOX 7 Austin Digital Team Published  ‘The Eyes of Texas’ report finds song’s intent ‘not overtly racist’ Student-athletes asked UT-Austin to drop the school song during Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020. AUSTIN, Texas - A comprehensive report from a committee tasked to look at the University of Texas at Austin's alma mater song has been released and one of the committee's findings was that the "intent of 'The Eyes of Texas' was not overtly racist." The ...