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Texas NAACP, students file federal civil rights complaint over UT-Austin’s ‘Eyes of Texas’
Read full article: Texas NAACP, students file federal civil rights complaint over UT-Austin’s ‘Eyes of Texas’The complaint signals a continued desire among some UT-Austin students and alumni to push administrators to discontinue using the song as the university’s alma mater, despite the university’s insistence that it will remain.
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UT-Austin’s Longhorn Band will be forced to play “The Eyes of Texas” song that’s become a source of fierce division
Read full article: UT-Austin’s Longhorn Band will be forced to play “The Eyes of Texas” song that’s become a source of fierce divisionNext fall, University of Texas at Austin students who play on the football team or watch in the stands can choose whether to sing “The Eyes of Texas” at the end of the game.But members of the Longhorn Band will be required to perform the university’s embattled alma mater, according to a press release posted on the Butler School of Music website Wednesday.