In the Know

This week on In the Know, we are asking you once more: What would you do?
Last week’s show concerning ethical dilemmas was so entertaining that we have decided to come back to this topic.
For instance, what would you do if the person you were seeing revealed to you that they were transgendered? Would that be [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to In The Know: The Director’s Cut.
I’m KVRX News Director Vanessa Castaneda.
Today I’m sharing some of my favorite shows from the spring 2008 season with you.
In the Birthcontrol episode, Gulie Fager from U.T. Austin’s University Health Services was in the studio. Coming up: candid discussion about whether you can lose something inside the vagina, [...]

Earlier this evening, we discussed HB 588 a.k.a the Top Ten percent law and how it relates to racism on In The Know.
A Sugar Land teen who didn’t make the cut is suing U.T. Austin, because she says race and ethnicity shouldn’t be used to determine whether a student is admitted into the school.
Oddly enough, [...]

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 [...]