Student Senate is demanding it. Very brave. No police at all on campus either.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qj017DGgEi0lH5zkSZIVTwPIPfI4uw971cvvRpWTZf8/preview?pru=AAABcs1gHpI*fjKcXW-HzrPM1s-iQ-wyzA
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qj017DGgEi0lH5zkSZIVTwPIPfI4uw971cvvRpWTZf8/preview?pru=AAABcs1gHpI*fjKcXW-HzrPM1s-iQ-wyzA
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[ol]Discontinue any use of "The Eyes of Texas" at all UT related events, and compose a new official school spirit song with the inclusion of BIPOC composers and musicians.23 [/ol]"The Eyes of Texas" was originally debuted as a song at a minstrel show where the performers were in Blackface, or theatrical makeup used by non-Black performers to portray caricatures of Black individuals. Endorsing "The Eyes of Texas" as the official school song with its explicit, anti-Black origin directly harms the Black community. As such, we call for discontinuing "The Eyes of Texas" in all UT programming, including but not limited to sporting events, orientation, commencement ceremonies, and any on campus activities, and to create a committee with proper BIPOC representation of faculty and student composers, musicians, and ethnomusicologists from the Butler School of Music, whose focus is to compose and write a new official school spirit song.