11 External links History[edit]

6.5 Media
6.6 Traditions
7 Athletics
7.1 Varsity sports
8 People
8.1 Faculty
8.2 Alumni
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
History[edit]

Main article: History of the University of Texas at Austin
Establishment[edit]
The first mention of a public university in Texas can be traced to the 1827 constitution for the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas. Although an article promised to establish public education in the arts and sciences, no action was taken by the Mexican government. But after Texas obtained its independence from Mexico in 1836, the Congress of Texas adopted the Constitution of the Republic, which included a provision to establish public education in the republic, including two universities or colleges. On January 26, 1839, the Congress of Texas agreed to eventually set aside fifty leagues of land towards the effort; in addition, 40 acres (160,000 m2) in the new capital of Austin were reserved and designated "College Hill."[14] (The term "Forty Acres" is colloquially used to refer to the University as a whole.)
In 1845, Texas was annexed into the United States of America. The state legislature passed the Act of 1858, which set aside $100,000 in United States bonds towards construction of a university. In addition, the legislature designated land, previously reserved for the encouragement of railroad construction, toward the universities' fifty leagues. But Texas's secession from the Union and the American Civil War prevented further action on these plans.


The university's Old Main Building in 1903
After the war, the 1862 Morrill Act facilitated the creation of what is now Texas A&M University, which was established in 1876 as the Agricultural & Mechanical College of Texas.[14] The Texas Constitution of 1876 mandated that the state establish a university

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f exhibitions and interactive artistic endeavors.[128] The university also annually holds a summer carnival and concert called Summer Breeze that hosts outside musicians, and is home to Doc Films, a student film society founded in 1932 that screens films nightly at the university. Since 1946, the university has organized the Latke-Hamantash Debate, which involves humorous discussions about the relative merits and meanings of Latke and Hamantash.
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The University of Texas at Austin
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Motto    Disciplina praesidium civitatis (Latin)
Motto in English    Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy[1]
Established    September 15, 1883
Type    Flagship state university
Space-grant university
Endowment    US$6.0 billion[2]
President    William C. Powers, Jr.
Academic staff    3,018 [3]
Admin. staff    21,000
Undergraduates    38,463[4]
Postgraduates    12,682[4]
Location    Austin, Texas, USA
Campus    Urban, 423.5 acres (1.714 km2)
Former names    The University of Texas
(1883–1967)[5]
Colors    Burnt orange and white[6]        
Sports    Texas Longhorns
Nickname    Longhorns
Mascot    Bevo & Hook 'em
Website    utexas.edu
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The University of Texas at Austin (informally UT Austin, UT, University of Texas,[7] or simply Texas[8] ) is a state research university and the flagship instituti

n and author Dick Stoken are all alumni. In journalism, notable graduates include New York Times columnist David Brooks, Washington Post columnist David Broder, W

of Medicine in 2011 was 36,[113] and the median LSAT score for entering students in the Law School in 2011 was 171.[114]
Alumni[edit]
Main article: List of University of Chicago alumni
In 2004, the University of Chicago claimed 133,155 living alumni.[115]
Notable alumni in the field of government and politics include community organizer Saul Alinsky, Obama campaign advisor David Axelrod, Attorney General and federal judge Robert Bork, Attorney General Ramsay Clark, former Governor of New Jersey Jon Corzine, Prohibition agent Eliot Ness, Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King and World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz,former minister of economy and finance in Haiti Leslie Delatour.
In business, Goldman Sachs and MF Global CEO Jon Corzine, Arley D. Cathey, Bloomberg L.P. CEO Daniel Doctoroff, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan, Morningstar, Inc. founder and CEO Joe Mansueto, and businessman and author Dick Stoken are all alumni.
In journalism, notable graduates include New York Times columnist David Brooks, Washington Post columnist David Broder, Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, investigative journalist Seymour Hirsch, The Progressive columnist Milton Mayer, statistical analyst Nate Silver, writer and activist Richard B. Spencer, and CBS News correspondent Rebecca Jarvis.
In literature, novelists Philip Roth, Tucker Max, and Kurt Vonnegut are graduates, as well as Lauren Oliver, author of the best-selling Delirium Trilogy.
In academia, alumni include astronomer Carl Sagan, economists Milton Friedman and Eugene Fama, astronomer Edwin Hubble, Africanist Marimba Ani and international relations scholar Samuel P. Huntington.
Notable former students who did not graduate include novelist Saul Bellow, film critic Roger Ebert, Oracle Corporation founder and CEO Larry Ellison, and director, writer and comedian Mike Nichols.
Athletics[edit]

Main article: Chicago Maroons
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The University of Chicago hosts 19 varsity sports teams: 10 men's teams and 9 women's teams,[116] all called the Maroons, with 585 students participating in the 2008–2009 school year.[116]
The Maroons compete in the NCAA's Division III as members of the University Athletic Association (UAA). The university was a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and participated in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball and Football and was a regular participant in the Men's Basketball tournament. In 1935, the University of Chicago reached the Sweet Sixteen.[116] However, the university chose to withdraw from the conference in 1946 after University President Robert Maynard Hutchins de-emphasized varsity athletics in 1939 and dropped football.[117] (In 1969, Chicago reinstated football as a Division