#university of texas at austin

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As the police escalate violence, beat and attack students and professors, and conduct mass arrests, student protesters should know their rights.

Here is the link to the National Lawyer's Guild booklet for protesters.

If you plan on going out to support the protests, please take some time to read through this and know your rights.

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When he’s a Texas Longhorns football fan🤘🏼🧡🏈 football season is definitely going to be fun and hot this year🤘🏼🧡🏈

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by Dion J. Pierre

The University of Florida (UF) has handed down severe and potentially life-altering punishments to seven pro-Hamas rioters who participated in occupying the campus in an attempt to intimidate officials into boycotting and divesting from Israel, according to Fresh Take Florida, a news service of the university’s College of Journalism and Communications.

UF’s disciplinary body was set on slapping the students’ wrists, sentencing most to probation only based on recommendations from “hearing bodies,” until its new dean, Chris Summerlin, intervened and issued full suspensions for as many as four years. The harshest suspensions — including four years for Allan Hektor Frasheri, 21, and three years for other students — while not being formal expulsions, are long enough to make it unlikely that the students serving them will return to the University of Florida.

The seven students have reportedly submitted appeals to overturn their punishments that are pending.

Summerlin’s suspensions may not be the only consequences that the students will face.

According to Fresh Take Florida, the students were part of a group of nine that were arrested by local law enforcement for trespassing and resisting arrest, charges that are being prosecuted by the Alachua County State Attorney’s Office. They are taking their chances at trial, the news service added, noting that all nine have rejected “deferred prosecution,” an agreement that would require them to plead guilty, or no contest, in exchange for the state’s expunging the convictions from their records in the future so long as they abstain from committing more criminal acts.

One of the nine, computer science student Parker Stanely Hovis, 26, — who was suspended for three years — proclaimed on Tuesday that they will contest the state’s cases.

“We did not resist arrest, and we are prepared to fight our charges,” Hovis said in a statement. “We’re standing in solidarity with each other, and collectively demanding that the state drop the charges against us.”

The University of Texas at Austin has also meted out lengthy suspensions to pro-Hamas protesters who violated school rules, a course of action that experts believe is a deterrent against similar behavior in the future.

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UT Austin: Free Speech & Public Demonstrations are accepted and encouraged!

Also UT Austin:

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April 24, 2024

UT Austin was supposed to have a peaceful protest in solidarity with Columbia university and to get UT to divest from donors who are weapon manufacturers and sell ammunition and weapons to Israel.

Department of Public Safety (DPS), Austin Police Department (APD), and University of Texas Police Department (UTPD) were all sent to disrupt the protest.

They didn't let students sit on the lawn where they were supposed to initially go the peaceful protest. DPS brought horses and used those horses to push students from Speedway (the main walkway across campus) to the South mall (lawn in between the tower and fountain) which was previously blocked off by officers. Students protested on the lawn before DPS started mass arresting people and shoved people into vans before taking them away. DPS brutalized the victims they arrested. People protested outside the Travis County Jail to release them all night last night and a vast majority has been released.

Over 50 people were arrested in total.

The counterprotestors (zionists and pro-Israelis) stood by and watched, cameras out to record the faces of the protestors. They have been attempting to doxx these students and call them 'Nazis' on Twitter.

After DPS left, people returned to the South mall lawn and 'reclaimed' it. It became the peaceful event it was supposed to be. People brought food, water, and themselves.

The aggressive response by DPS has left many students and faculty shaken to the point where it was decided that a protest for DEI would be repurposed into a protest for first amendment rights and for Palestine was going to happen the next day. Today, April 25, 2024. I participated and it was much larger than the protest yesterday.

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High Wizard Ashley of the Land of Texas from the League of Pigs has now hence forth cast ye all away!

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another walk-out in response to today's police repression of protestors is planned at ut austin for tomorrow. I shudder to think of what the texas department of public safety (what a fucking joke) will do now that they're already proven they have no qualms about using violence

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Hogg Memorial Auditorium Makes a Comeback

Student performers on stage at the Hogg Showcase on Nov. 29, 2023

We’re giving you a front row seat to listen to the live music, performances and fun events that marked Hogg Memorial Auditorium’s comeback as a vibrant student life space.

Let the sounds take you there for all the action – a concert headlined by a well-known, hometown musician, movie screenings, a showcase of student, faculty and staff talent, and more. Throughout October and November, the grand re-opening festivities showcased how the auditorium is now a premier destination for performing arts, live music and student events. It’s a major turning point for the intentionally-designed space in the heart of campus.

The auditorium’s rich history spans decades and its transformation is 10 years in the making. Student leaders partnered with the Division of Student Affairs – the hub of student life and well-being – to make it happen.

Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Soncia Reagins-Lilly, President Jay Hartzell and Ashley Baker Hayes (2011-2012 Student Government vice president) at the grand re-opening celebration on Nov. 3, 2023

“If there's something you're advocating for, keep working on it, you might not see the benefits while you're on campus, but you're helping to make the Forty Acres a place for future students to be able to utilize and be excited about. Who knows what will happen in 10 years from the little seed you helped plant?” said Ashley Baker Hayes, BA ’12 and 2011-2012 Student Government vice president.

Click play on this three-minute story to envision the possibilities of how future generations of students will live the Longhorn life there, or find the Living the Longhorn Life Podcast on Spotify, Apple or Google.

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Administrative Assistant

Job Posting Title: Administrative Assistant—-Hiring Department: Office of Accounting—-Position Open To: All Applicants—-Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40—-FLSA Status: To Be Determined at Offer—-Earliest Start Date: Ongoing—-Position Duration: Expected to Continue—-Location: UT MAIN CAMPUS—-Job Details:General NotesThis position provides for work-life balance with typically a 40-hour work week that…

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A series of UT posts

It was strange that I had never uploaded pictures of UT Austin on this blog even though I spend 6 years there (2017-2023). There were two reasons for this. First, somehow, before I started there, I hadn't taken any pictures (I did visit a few times before starting). Second, anytime I thought about posting, I wasn't sure how to organize the pictures, because there were just so many. Thus, a year after graduating, I began a long project of sorting through all my pictures, and figuring out the best way to organize them into a series of posts. This series is a dedication to a happy (well, overall) 6 years of my life.

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bail funds for pro-palestine activists

a15 bail and legal defense fund (supporting community members criminalized in the us for solidarity with palestine)

university of texas at austin students bail fund venmo @ psc_atx (livestream)

columbia students bail fund venmo @ bcabolitioncollective

as of april 15 ct dissenters (new york and connecticut) need bail funs for arrested activists: zelle: ctpalestinesolidaritycoalition@gmail.com cashapp: $BristolAntiRacism (use "april gift" in your memo so contributions can be tracked)

the palestine legal defense fund supports acitvists across the united states

palestine legal defence also supplies free legal support for activists

the national bail fund network may update with local bail fund efforts as events continue to unfold

this list is updated as of 24 april 10pm EST. i'll try to update as i find further bail funds and legal supports: if you know of other funds or if information shared here is incorrect, please reblog with updated info (+ a timestamp) so people can give and access support.

palestine will be free, solidarity forever 🍉 🇵🇸

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University of Texas at Austin students standing their ground against the state troopers sent by Governor Greg Abbott to suppress the campus protests

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Some pictures from UT Austin Campus!

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A stock photo shows a Dinosaur Fossil simulator excavation used for education. Researchers recently discovered the Fossil of a new Aetosaur Species in Texas. IStock/Getty Images

Extinct 'Eagle Lizard' Found in Texas Canyon

— Newsweek | January 19, 2023

Researchers recently learned that a fossil unearthed in 1989 was actually a new reptile species that lived roughly 218 million years ago in what is now a Texas canyon.

The newly identified species, Garzapelta Muelleri, is a type of Aetosaur, which means "Eagle Lizard" because the reptile's skull resembles that of a bird, according to a report by Sci.News. Like alligators, aetosaurs roamed wet regions across the supercontinent Pangea during the Late Triassic Period, the University of California Museum of Paleontology says.

The museum says the aetosaurs were heavily armored with a crocodile's body, pig's snout and bird's skull. The newly discovered reptile was up to 11.5 feet long, according to a study about the newly identified species that was published in The Anatomical Record on January 11.

Aetosaurs were believed to be omnivores and herbivores. They vanished at the end of the Triassic period because of a mass extinction event.

The aetosaur's fossilized skeleton was first found by Paleontologist Bill Mueller from Texas Tech University and local amateur collector Emmett Shedd in 1989 in the Cooper Canyon Formation in Garza County, Texas. But Mueller died in 2019, and many of his projects remained unfinished. William Reyes, a paleontologist and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, was invited to lead the description of the new species that was published earlier this month in The Anatomical Record.

The skeleton was found along with the creature's carapace, a hard outer shell that is similar to that of a turtle. The study said that the carapace fossil provides "new insight" into carapace variation across the species and that the findings imply that researchers were "dealing with the emergence of a new group of aetosaur."

"Everyone agreed that it was indeed a new species, as it exhibited several unique features in its armor that differentiate it from any other known Aetosaur Species," Reyes told Newsweek. "However, where exactly it fell in the evolutionary tree of this group remained contentious."

Reyes said the next steps in his research include reassessing some of the aetosaur relatives of the Garzapelta Species.

Researchers believe that aetosaurs lived across the world, as their fossils have been found in Europe and North and South America, the University of California museum said. The most common aetosaur fossils that researchers find are the hard plates that make up the body armor, the report said.

The discovery comes after researchers found two new species of an "Iconic and Bizarre" dinosaur group in North America at the end of last year.

Earlier this month, a fossil found by a pair of hikers last year was identified as the skull of a huge new species of prehistoric fish that lived around 72 million years ago.

Researchers also announced the discovery of the remains of a large flying reptile that roamed Earth's skies 100 million years ago during the age of the dinosaurs.

In other locations across the world, scientists are finding that species they thought were extinct are still thriving in the wild, like the De Winton's golden mole in South Africa 🇿🇦 and the Attenborough's long-beaked Echidna in New Guinea 🇬🇳.

"I think it's just fantastic that...we can still rediscover species," said Cobus Theron, a member of the research team that found the golden mole, in a press release. "All of our stories around conservation are doom and gloom. Here we have an opportunity to say that, actually, there are opportunities to make change."