Higher Education

LGBT College Kids Can Breathe Easy with Death of Anti-Gay Bills in Legislature, Aggie Senate

Yesterday morning, things seemed grim for Texas' gay and transgendered college students, particularly those fortunate to call themselves Aggies. They faced an assault from two fronts. On the one hand, you had the A&M student senate passing a bill allowing students to opt out of funding the school's ... More >>

Grand Prairie Spa Owner Who Mistook Woman's Pregnancy for Urinary Tract Infection Has to Stop Practicing Medicine

The website and Facebook pages for The Master's Hand Medical Center in Grand Prairie, which later changed its name to the Master's Hand Spa, have been taken down. The traces that are left on the Internet indicate it offered weight loss treatments, botox, lipo-laser, as well as massages and other spa ... More >>

Police: SMU Student Was Assaulted and "Held Against His Will" at a Frat House Last Night [Updated]

From SMU's crime logs, we bring you a brief, somewhat disturbing, deeply weird police report: at 8:18 last night, campus police reported that a student was "was assaulted and held against his will" at the university's Sigma Phi Epsilon house. The case is being classified as "Aggravated Assault/Aggra ... More >>

Allowing Concealed Guns on Campus is Back Before the Texas Legislature

Back in 2011, a simpler time, the most heated gun-related debate in the Texas Legislature was over a provision allowing concealed weapons to be brought onto college campuses. That proposal seems almost quaint as the focus has shifted to proposals to arm elementary school teachers. That's not to say ... More >>

Eliminate Race in Deciding UT Admissions? Fine, Then Let's Really Level the Field.

Let's say Abigail Noel Fisher wins her appeal now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. Let's say a more conservative court backtracks on earlier opinions supporting the use of race as an admissions criterion at the University of Texas and tells the university to stop considering race altogether. ... More >>

SMU's Baffling Sexual Assault Policy May Be Like Other Schools', But It's Still a Disaster

Last night, SMU's Daily Campus reported that university police released a crime report to students, informing them that a female SMU student was sexually assaulted at an apartment off-campus by a male acquaintance, also an SMU student. The assault took place on Friday, October 5 in the 3400 block of ... More >>

SMU Rule Caps Parties at 400 Students, Leaves Greek System "Totally in Awe"

SMU is not known as a party school, at least according to the party-school power rankers. But this is still college, where people have a tendency to gather in large groups and drink, and the school does have a robust Greek scene, so there are parties at SMU, and they can get pretty big. But only to ... More >>

Report: Don't Major in the Humanities, You Broke Idiot

A new report submitted to the Texas Legislature says that Texans who earn their bachelor's degrees in the humanities have higher levels of debt and lower earning potential than people who get degrees in math and science-related fields. In 2010, the majors with the highest rates of unemployment were ... More >>

Mark Cuban Tackles America's Student Loan Bubble, Then Roots for It to Burst

In addition to sports team ownership and a sideline in media impresario-ness, Mark Cuban is quite the blogger: dishing out advice to the Occupy movement, fulminating about patent law, apologizing for some casual homophobia. And a few days ago, he aired his views on the small matter of student loan d ... More >>

As Physicists Near Discovery of God Particle, A Word With SMU Prof Involved In the Search

Via.​You've probably heard that an international contingent of physicists in Switzerland is this close to identifying the Higgs boson, aka the "God particle." Currently, the Higgs is the theoretical mechanism that explains how matter obtained mass following the Big Bang. The theory is that it ... More >>

Media Political Pundits Quit Surfing TMZ Long Enough to Sculpt Narrative, Declare Rick Perry Campaign Sunk.

Senator Wendy Davis Draws a Line in the Dirt

At last, a Democrat is willing to stand up to Perrypublicans.

Denton: Not Just For Bands Any More

SMU's $5 Mil Closer to Having Sophomores Live on Campus So They Will "Learn" Together

Courtesy Southern Methodist UniversityThe Residential Commons complex, which will insist SMU sophomores live next to the football stadium​Visited the SMU website today only to discover that two Denver-living Mustang grads have kicked in $5 mil toward what the Hilltop's calling the Residential Comm ... More >>

Again, Times Writes About Isenberg's Efforts to Help a Student Here Illegally Live the Dream

Photo by Mark GrahamRalph Isenberg​By now you're likely well aware of Ralph Isenberg's ongoing efforts to bring Saad Nabeel back to North Texas, after the the 20-year-old Frisco Liberty High grad was sent to Bangladesh last year by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials -- after Saad's pare ... More >>

State Rep. Bill Zedler's Proposed Creationist Legislation is Causing Quite the Big Bang

​Two weeks ago Bill Zedler, state rep for District 96 in Arlington, tossed into the legislative heap House Bill 2454, which would prohibit "discrimination by public institutions of higher education against faculty members and students based on their conduct of research relating to intelligent desi ... More >>

The Battle Between Parkland and Dallas News Rages On In Missive From Hospital CEO

Ron Anderson​Last week, Dallas Morning News Deputy Managing Editor Maud Beelman penned a piece for Harvard's Nieman Watchdog in which she explained the paper's yearlong investigation into the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Memorial Hospital -- two heretofore "sacred c ... More >>

Study Says Dallas Am Not Be Very Literate

Via Threadless​Don't get defensive. That's just what Dr. John W. Miller, president of Central Connecticut State University, says in the seventh-annual report America's Most Literate Cities 2010 released today. Yet again, when ranking the 75 top-population cities in the U.S., Miller looked at six " ... More >>

Lousiana Season is Over,
But You Can Still Get a Crawfish Fix

Crawfish lovers, don't give up yet.​A new project at Louisiana State University may eventually extend the crawfish season through the fall, but a local seafood purveyor says many consumers don't realize live mudbugs are already available through Halloween. "You can get crawfish from the Pacif ... More >>

A Fighter Reflects

Kappa Kappa Slasha

Legally Blonde Guilty of Contempt of Audience; FIT Fuels Up Under a Texaco Canopy

On the SMU Campus, Hispanic High School Students are Getting a Taste of College

Megan FeldmanDallas Mayor Tom Leppert, DISD trustee Edwin Flores and superintendent Michael Hinojosa at SMU's Hispanic Youth Symposium kick-off yesterdayA cluster of local educators and politicos -- among them Mayor Tom Leppert, Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, SM ... More >>

President of Paul Quinn College on the Loss of Accreditation: "It is Not Time to Write Paul Quinn's Obituary." Students Say: "It Sucks."

Kimberly ThorpePaul Quinn College president Michael SorrellPresident Michael Sorrell of Paul Quinn College earlier this afternoon addressed a room full of anxious students, alumni and curious reporters regarding news that Paul Quinn College has lost its accreditation. The news broke yesterday after ... More >>

Why Don't Mexican Women Like Tampons?

A Downtown Law School is Good for Downtown. But is it Good for America?

How UNT imagines the old City Hall will look once it becomes a law schoolA Friend of Unfair Park whose name does not rhyme with "Patt Mulle" sends us this Texas Watchdog story concerning the downtown law school the University of North Texas System is hoping to squeeze into the old Municipal Building ... More >>

Yay, SMU! You're No. 66!

SMU Insists It's Not Hiding Sexual Assault Statistics

Waytago, Lew Calver! Yours is the Best Fake Bush Library in the World!

Welcome to George Bush's ... Fun Ranch?

Onscreen Education

Search for clues at the Modern

Space is the Place

Paying the Piper

Legal bills mount as the county defends its failed jail health systems

And So Clean, Clean

All Apologies

Hey, man. Dave's coming.

The Minders, The Kingdom

Friday, July 28, at Rubber Gloves

Goggle and Spit

Open your mouth and take in some art

Go...uh...Canada!

Cox, Hard to Get Into

More Cops for UTD Dorm

Plus: Dialing for Dollars

Play Nice or Else

Plus: Unripe Banana Case

The Devil Next Door

The chilling story of Doug Havard, SMU'S Crime Boss

ICE, ICE Babies

SMU kids learn about life outside The Bubble

Best Dallas Cowboy

Larry Allen

Inhale With Hale

Itinerant pro-pot candidate Steven Hale is down again, but not out

Best Fried Chicken

Bubba's Cooks Country

Best New Museum

Meadows Museum

Dr. Cop

John Mullen is a modern-day action hero straight out of television, a full-time emergency room physician who fights crime and solves murders on the side

The Graduates

SMU's Meadows School of the Arts makes a tentative mark on the world

Bitter pill

Texas' naturopathic physicians lose a bid to become legal