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University of Texas Faces New Outcry Over Old Song With Minstrel Roots Many students want “The Eyes of Texas” to go. Wealthy alumni insist it should stay. The dispute has become a flash point as universities struggle to deal with traditions spawned in earlier eras. Fans singing “The Eyes of Texas” at a University of Texas football game in Austin in November.Credit...Jay Janner/USA Today Sports, via Reuters May 7, 2021 SAN ANTONIO — For generations, the fight song at the University of Texas at Austin has been etched into the state’s very fabric. For students, the words “the eyes ...

The eyes of Texas are once again on 'The Eyes of Texas' FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 The Longhorn Band of the University of Texas at Austin performed during the opening of the 2017 Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl game at NRG Stadium on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, in Houston.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of2 FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus near the school's iconic tower in Austin, Texas.Eric Gay, STF / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less Grappling with painful truths about our state�...

Texas Law student Anthony Collier – joined by (l-r) UT student Zion James, UT professor Alberto Martínez, Texas NAACP President Gary Bledsoe, Rep. Ron Reynolds, and Dallas minister Lamont Ross – addressed reporters at a press conference denouncing "The Eyes of Texas." (photo by Beth Sullivan) Texas Black lawmakers, civil rights leaders, and students from the University of Texas of Austin are calling on UT-Austin leadership to finally abandon the school's spirit song, " The Eyes of Texas." On Monday, state Rep. Texas NAACP Pres­i­dent Gary Bledsoe, Austin NAACP Pres...