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Tensions boil at UT-Austin over 'The Eyes of Texas', where students are refusing to work Kate McGee, Texas Tribune FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 In this file photo, students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus near the school's iconic tower.Eric Gay/APShow MoreShow Less 2of2 The Longhorn Band of the University of Texas at Austin perform during the opening of the 2017 Academy Sports + Outdoors Texas Bowl game in 2017.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less Dozens of students at the University of Texas at Austin who give campus tours to prospective Lo...

Student tour guides at UT-Austin are going on strike this week over a debate about whether to remove a plaque in the Admissions Welcome Center with "The Eyes of Texas" lyrics on it. Credit: Eddie Gaspar/The Daily Texan Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Dozens of students at the University of Texas at Austin who give campus tours to prospective Longhorns are refusing to work this week over a dispute about a plaque with “The Eyes of Texas” lyrics hanging in the Admissions Welcome Center.

Students are refusing to work and a man with a gun crashed a virtual event Kate McGee, The Texas Tribune May 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail AUSTIN, TX - SEPTEMBER 08: Head coach Tom Herman of the Texas Longhorns sings The Eyes of Texas after the game against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on September 8, 2018 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images)Tim Warner, Stringer / Getty Images Dozens of students at the University of Texas at Austin who give campus tours to prospective Longhorns are refusing to work this week over a dispute about a plaque ...

In the spring of 1994 , then-sophomores Paul Massingill and Robert Bleker were walking back to their dorms after a Student Leadership board meeting. It was a time when hazing was a major issue within UT’s Greek system and the pair felt that an alternative space for male bonding was needed. Just four years earlier, an intoxicated Beta Theta Pi member had fallen to his death from the roof of his fraternity house, and a Sigma Nu pledge was subjected to gruesome hazing in the basement of the legacy organization he’d hoped to join. After a high-profile investigation and court case, the latter ...