Bill Text: TX HR753 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulating The Daily Texan on its 125th anniversary.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-04-07 - Referred to Local & Consent Calendars [HR753 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HR753-Introduced.html
| 89R9959 CW-D | ||
| By: Hinojosa | H.R. No. 753 | |
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| WHEREAS, The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of The | ||
| University of Texas at Austin, is celebrating its 125th year of | ||
| publication in 2025; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In 1900, two privately owned campus newspapers, the | ||
| Calendar and the Ranger, merged to form the weekly Texan; four years | ||
| later, the student assembly took on responsibility for operations; | ||
| the paper soon began circulating twice a week, and following a 1913 | ||
| student referendum, it became what was reportedly the first college | ||
| daily in the South; a student-faculty conference in 1921 led to the | ||
| formation of Texas Student Publications to publish The Daily Texan, | ||
| as well as Longhorn Magazine and the Cactus yearbook; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The Daily Texan established a tradition of editorial | ||
| independence early on, opposing the regents' ban on student-owned | ||
| cars, publishing a report from an enterprising staffer who hid in a | ||
| closet during a closed meeting on the selection of UT's president, | ||
| and offending the dean of women with an ad for knee-length "jersey | ||
| silk lingerie"; over the years, the paper has taken strong stands on | ||
| civil rights, the Vietnam War, censorship, academic freedom, and | ||
| other important issues; reporters have produced hard-hitting work | ||
| on everything from campus controversies to state government and | ||
| have covered such major events as President John F. Kennedy's | ||
| assassination, the 1966 mass shooting from the UT Tower, and | ||
| generations of student protests; widely admired as one of the | ||
| nation's top student papers, The Daily Texan has garnered a host of | ||
| prestigious awards; alumni from the sports, features, and editorial | ||
| sections, as well as the news side, have gone on to prominence; the | ||
| remarkable list includes journalists Walter Cronkite, Bill Moyers, | ||
| and Karen Tumulty, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists Berke | ||
| Breathed and Ben Sargent, syndicated columnist Liz Smith, and Wall | ||
| Street Journal publisher and international Dow Jones president | ||
| Karen Elliott House; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Today, The Daily Texan is the heir to a proud | ||
| tradition of student journalism, and its staff may indeed take | ||
| great pride in the vital role the paper has played in the UT | ||
| community and beyond for over a century; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 89th Texas | ||
| Legislature hereby congratulate The Daily Texan on its 125th | ||
| anniversary and extend to all those associated with the publication | ||
| sincere best wishes for the future; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be | ||
| prepared for The Daily Texan as an expression of high regard by the | ||
| Texas House of Representatives. | ||
