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U-T’s student government met yesterday to talk about stuff they want to do next year. About 25 students, including SG reps, showed up to the meeting. They didn’t come to any conclusions except that they intend to talk about health care and tuition sometime soon.
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City Council is changing the curfew (for minors) from 10PM to [...]

On this week’s edition of In the Know, we’ll be talking about a new item on the market: broke teens! 
Money is hard to come by for a lot of college students. With tuition rates increasing, gas prices soaring, unemployment rates peaking, and the overall cost of living skyrocketing, some students  will pretty much do anything [...]

 
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For those of you who missed our show, here it is in print for you.
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The readers were in this show were written by Vanessa Castaneda, Aaron Aiken, Abhinav Kumar, and Xorje Olivares. Brian Genchur and Melinda Merola helped research. Vanessa Castaneda stacked the show.

Today is Wednesday, June 4th, 2008. You’re reading the [...]

A season of In The Know episodes premieres on 91.7 FM tonight. At 7 o’clock, tune in and hear U-T Austin students open their minds and verbally explore narcolepsy: What is it exactly? Can you catch it from your dirty room mate? And can having it prevent you from getting a [...]

Topic: Media objectivity

      We’ll discuss the reasons certain media outlets are considered more objective than others. And whether being an objective journalist is an achievable goal in a world of FOXy pundits. And if a journalist were to identify their own bias before [...]

Origins of the Cinco de Mayo:
May 5, 1862 was the day General Ignacio Zaragosa led Mexican forces against the French and won. No one really celebrated that day until about 100 years later. Los Angeles Recreation and Parks commissioner Riordan decided to use the day to market the Coors beer distributors he owned. He [...]

This week we’re talking about the Top Ten Percent rule.
It’s a life saver for some and a stupid piece of legislation to others. We hear the same issue brought up every year. Should Texas get rid of this whole admissions process? And are Texas students taking advantage, and filling up the same public university.
It’s more [...]

As promised, here’s the second half of the In The Know which aired April 2, 2008.
We talked about birth control with University of Texas at Austin Health Education Coordinator Gulielma Leonard Fager, MPH.
Download it to your ipod or zune or whatev and listen to it.
We’ll keep you company while you cavort through the pollen showers [...]

 

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Who is responsible for birth control? The woman or the man?
In The Know reporter Abhinav Kumar pounded the pavement at UT Austin in search of perspective to provide you with websclusive content.

 

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Wednesday, on In The Know: We’re talking birth control. We heard about a 30-dollar paternity test and opinions started flying.
Who’s responsible for birth control? The guy or the girl?
What about specific methods like the ring? Does anyone really want something up their yaya for months?
We’ll also talk about _______________. This is where you come in.
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