Minorities are now the majority at UT-Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (photo by Reid Sullivan)
AUSTIN, Texas—The West Mall of the University of Texas at Austin, just outside the student union, looks like any other college campus. Students rush to grab lunch, scurry to class or man recruiting tables for the country-dance and sailing clubs. A few relax, listening to music or talking on the phone with family and friends.
But there’s something different here. Past the antebellum-style fraternity houses, the statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and the pickup trucks in the parking lots, there’s much more color.
Whites are in the minority this year for the first time in the history of the flagship Texas school, which was
