Yay funny emails! In its entirety, with original formatting and punctuation:

Subject: WIN A Wii BY ATTENDING LECTURE ( Read more... )

I attended a fireside with Dr. Streetman (Dean of UT's School of Engineering) last night. OMG he's such a grades/test scores/rankings whore! The admissions office rejected an applicant who had a 1600 SAT score (under the old system), so he went and personally made them admit her. Doom. Is that even ethical? Also, he goes out and recruits high- ( Read more... )

To celebrate the College of Engineering changing its name to Cockrell School of Engineering, there was a reception/dinner thing tonight at the Four Seasons. It put every semi-fancy event I've attended at the UT Alumni Center to shame. Hotels are shiny ( Read more... )

Oh shiny! We got ourselves a sugar daddy!

Subject: College Renamed Cockrell School of Engineering ( Read more... )

Two threats in two days? Copycatters seeking attention, or paranoid people freaking out?

From today:

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At about 11 a.m. UTPD received a low-level non-specific threat for Perry-Castaneda Library. As of 12:55 p.m., the building has been cleared as safe.

From yesterday:-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE ( Read more... )

Hussein Osama is coming to UT. o.O ......Who's going?

( Featuring nerds, trees, BSTs, some more nerds, and of course, squirrels. )

Woah people are whory. Interview sign-ups start at 10:45am; I signed up at 11:00am, and I was already the seventh out of ten people to do so. In related news, I thought there were 12 spots instead of ten, so I accidentally signed up for the very last spot. (I wanted a spot that's late-ish but not last.) This is good, y/n?

New issue of Texas ( Read more... )

In addition to a National Championship and being named the nation's top party school, UT now has one more title to add to its list of bragging rights: No. 1 gaming college in the country.Haha UT=diversity! We have jocks, drunkards, and monkeys ( Read more... )

Ha I'm so easily amused. Anyway, the story is:

Original article.

Rebuttal.

Rebuttal to rebuttal.

Awww poor fob (maybe?) person has no rhetorical analysis skills. Someone didn't take AP English. ;) Okay, not really, because the original article was not obvious satire. A lot of people's reactions (including mine :( ) were "I think that's satire? ( Read more... )