Monthly Archives: Aug. 1999

The Texas Institute for Public Problem Solving (TIPPS) at The University of Texas at Austin will host a statewide conference on Aug. 16-18 dealing with domestic violence.

Barry R. McCaffrey, who as director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy heads the nation's effort to win the war on drugs, will discuss his office's drug control strategy during a lecture at The University of Texas at Austin on Aug. 9.

It was like a moment out of a William Faulkner novel. In 1984, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin first saw an immense archive of southern history at the home of its owner in Mississippi. In room after room, and in outlying buildings, were original letters and documents of Southern history, unseen by scholars since they were first written. Faulkner evoked something of the experience in his novel Absalom, Absalom!: "The paper old and faded and falling to pieces, the writing faded, almost indecipherable, yet meaningful, familiar in shape and sense, the name and presence of volatile sentient forces."