The area on the third floor of Ransom Hall measured 11 feet by 7 feet. From 1976 to 1994, Student Publications filled the third floor and half of the second in the building named for its most celebrated early-day tenant, the school s English department chairman, newspaper adviser and baseball coach, Professor W.A. Ransom. In good times and bad, the paper has thrived despite the world wars, the Depression, threats the wife of one former president called The Shorthorn a cult ice storms, flooded pipes, electrical blackouts and debilitating attacks within the student staff of transient hormonal surge. On a campus noted for change, The Shorthorn remains one of the oldest traditions, rivaled only by the Sam Houston Rifles drill team. It went daily in 1977, following stints as a biweekly and a weekly.
Doesn t look like a bar.
Only in your memory, comes the reply. But at the heart of it all, it s still The Shorthorn. Our goal is to publish the best possible newspaper daily for the UTA community, believing that an informed community makes good decisions. We're proud of awards we've earned in the past. They've given us our reputation.