After Campus Stabbing, UT-Austin Student Newspaper Provided Information When Officials Did Not

[TexasTowelie]

Daily Texan reporters were on campus, and in touch with other students via social media.

Monday afternoon, Kendrex J. White, a 21-year-old junior at the University of Texas, stabbed and killed Harrison Brown and wounded three others. So far there is no known motive.

UT-Austin students were not alerted by the university’s text messaging system until nearly half an hour after the attack started. By that time, word of mouth had spread across campus, sparking spurious, unconfirmed, and as it would turn out, unwarranted and unsubstantiated claims of other attacks occurring elsewhere on campus.

Students had few places to turn for more information, except for the student newspaper, which published some of the first actual images from the scene, including the arrest of the suspect.

The Daily Texan is one of the oldest student newspapers in the south, and in its 117 years has won more national, regional and state awards than any other student newspaper in America.

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