HR753 - Congratulating The Daily Texan on its 125th anniversary.

  89R9959 CW-D     By: Hinojosa H.R. No. 753       R E S O L U T I O N          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.