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Kate McGee, The Texas Tribune April 22, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail The University of Texas Longhorn Band performed during the 2017 Fiesta Flambeau Parade April 29. The school song, “The Eyes of Texas,” is always a crowd favorite, and was penned by a student from San Antonio in 1903.Edward A. Ornelas /San Antonio Express-News Next fall, University of Texas at Austin students who play on the football team or watch in the stands can choose whether to sing the “The Eyes of Texas” at the end of the game. But members of the Longhorn Band will be required to perform the university’s embattled alma mater, according to a press release posted on the Butler School of Music website Wednesday. ....
Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 3.0 UT students and football players singing The Eyes of Texas after a win. AUSTIN, Texas The Texas Longhorns had just lost to rival Oklahoma for the third time in a row this time after a quadruple overtime. The bruising loss was quickly overshadowed when then-Texas quarterback Sam Ehlinger stood alone on the field for the playing of the university’s alma mater song The Eyes of Texas, a postgame tradition. The rest of the team, who typically stay to sing the song with fans at the end of games, had retreated from the field. For many University of Texas at Austin students who had spent months protesting and petitioning the school to get rid of The Eyes of Texas, it was gutting to see the student leader seemingly taking a stand. (Ehlinger later said he was only lingering alone on the field to talk with coaches.) The song played to the tune of I’ve been working on the railroad was historically performed at campus minstrel shows, ....
It is disgraceful to see the lack of unity and our fiercest competitor Sam E[h]linger standing nearly alone, wrote one graduate whose name was also redacted by the university to protect the identity of a donor. It is symbolic of the disarray of this football program which you inherited. The critical race theory garbage that has been embraced by the football program and the university is doing massive irreparable damage. Among the donors who reached out was billionaire businessman and alumnus Bob Rowling, whose holding company owns Omni Hotels and Gold’s Gym and whose name graces a building within the McCombs School of Business. ....