TITLE: Congratulating The Daily Texan on its 125th anniversary.

SUMMARY: Congratulating The Daily Texan on its 125th anniversary.

FULL TEXT:
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.