RedBlack Gym
Esther Davis performs kettlebell complexes during her prescribed class at the RedBlack Gym, located on Burnet, Tuesday evening. Kettlebells are a blend of cardiovascular and strength training...
View ArticleUT sophomore and double-amputee ascends Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness...
A UT student born without functioning legs ascended Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa this summer in a bid to publicize difficulties faced by Russian orphans.Alex D’Jamoos, international relations and global...
View ArticleFacebook center wanted in Russia
MOSCOW — Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg was in Moscow on Monday, where top officials were pressing him to expand the company’s operations in Russia.Russia’s communications minister tweeted that Prime...
View ArticleThousands march to protest Russia’s adoption ban
MOSCOW — Thousands of people marched through Moscow on Sunday to protest Russia’s new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a far bigger number than expected in a sign that outrage over...
View ArticleRussia begins evacuations from Syria
BEIRUT — Russia said Monday it is sending two planes to Lebanon to start evacuating its citizens from Syria, the strongest sign yet that President Bashar Assad’s most important international ally has...
View ArticleRussian scientists recover meteor fragments
MOSCOW — Scientists have found more than 50 tiny fragments of a meteor that exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains, and preliminary tests are turning up information about its contents.However, local...
View ArticleChelyabinsk reveals how unprepared we are for meteor strike
This past week, a 55-foot-wide meteor flew over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, leaving a trail of smoke in the Siberian skies and producing a shock wave powerful enough to shatter windows and injure...
View ArticlePaul Farmer, director of Partners In Health, to speak at AT&T Conference Center
As the director of Partners in Health and United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, Paul Farmer has a legacy of healing and activism that spans from Mexico to Russia. In celebration of his new...
View ArticleUT professor Regnerus promotes controversial gay parenting study, but only to...
UT sociology professor Mark Regnerus, the author of a controversial gay parenting study allegedly showing that children of same-sex parents are damaged as a result, spoke this weekend on a panel put on...
View ArticlePrisoner denies slaying of JFK
DALLAS (Spl.) — Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, was charged for murder with malice in the slaying of President John F. Kennedy at 11:56 p.m. Friday night.Henry Wade, the district attorney making the...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: The story of ‘Our Three Russians’ reveals cultural...
With the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, it is easy to forget how inaccessible Russian culture and society once was to the U.S. — and to UT students.In a Nov. 30, 1912, article...
View ArticleAs nation's eyes turn to Sochi, UT should remember Regnerus
The Sochi Olympics have drawn fire because of Russia’s law against “gay propaganda” and police repression of gay activists in the country. But gay activists aren’t just drawing attention to the...
View ArticleStudy abroad programs affected by political conflict in Ukraine
Political conflict in Eastern Europe has not only affected Russia’s relations with the West, but also UT summer study abroad programs in the region.Russian Express, a language and culture program that...
View ArticleDiscussion reviews US role in Ukraine crisis
Ukraine isn’t enough of a U.S. priority to warrant military involvement, although Russia has shown its willingness to use military force, according to government professor Robert Moser in an on-campus...
View ArticleUnited States should act to contain Russia's proxy wars
The last decade has witnessed a proliferation of proxy wars throughout the Middle East, Africa, central Asia and Southeast Asia. These are violent, often genocidal, conflicts between local groups...
View ArticleFormer US ambassador gives talk on American-Russian relations
Jack Matlock, former United States ambassador to the Soviet Union, visited the LBJ Library on Tuesday and said current American-Russian relations are intensifying.Matlock said he fears the aggression...
View ArticleRegents to continue looking at divesting from Russia
The UT System will further consider divesting funds from Russia as relations between the U.S. and the Russian governments worsen because of conflict in Ukraine, according to System officials.At a Board...
View ArticleDon’t treat Putin with kid gloves, but neither with a heavy hand
As observers of international affairs, we have a tendency to divide the world into good guys and bad guys, friends and foes. Old maps from the Second World War show the allied countries in one color,...
View ArticleSenior designer reflects on time at The Daily Texan
“Get involved,” they urged. That’s how you get around on this big campus, make it feel a little smaller. Clutching the copy of the paper that I had studied so meticulously that morning, I strutted into...
View ArticleRussian director addresses theater and politics in a post-Cold War world
At a talk Monday, Russian film director Yury Urnov said post-Cold War Russian theater differs from American theater in several key ways — and said Americans are much more likely to experiment with...
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