/ The Longhorn Band at Texas football game against Louisiana Tech University on Aug. 31, 2019. The new approach was born out of ongoing financial issues and concerns with “The Eyes of Texas,” which ramped up in earnest last June in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a Black man murdered by a white Minneapolis police officer.
Next fall, University of Texas at Austin students who play on the football team or watch in the stands can choose whether to sing the “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.
UT-Austin s Longhorn Band will be forced to play The Eyes of Texas song that s become a source of fierce division
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Consumer bankruptcies and debt-settlements in B.C. have plummeted during COVID-19, which sounds like a good thing, but insolvency trustees worry that troubles lurk beneath the surface.
Government assistance programs and bank payment deferrals have cushioned the economic blows of the pandemic for many, but once those all end in the coming months, financial stresses will return.
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Statistics from the Superintendent of Bankruptcy show that 2,099 B.C. consumers filed for debt relief in the last three months of 2020, a 28 per cent decline from the same period of 2019 and the portion of filings for straight-up bankruptcy, 593, represented a 44 per cent drop.