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Contributing Material
You do not have to be on staff to get published. However, we can only accept submissions from the students, faculty and staff of the University of Texas at Austin. You may email submissions. The Travesty reserves the right to edit submissions for content, style and length. You'll be notified if your submission is chosen for publication, so include your full name and email address with your submission.
How to join
Download the application (PDF)
You must apply to be on staff. Membership is restricted to University of Texas at Austin students, faculty, and staff only. Download the application
or pick one up at the TSM desk in CMC 3-200. You don't necessarily have to write to be on staff — we're virtually always in need of administrative assistants, designers, and illustrators. Applications are accepted year-round. All positions are unpaid. Drop the applications at Walter Webb Hall, the temporary offices for TSM. Keep reading for more details.
Writing Staff
Include with your application at least three writing samples. Your samples should be funny and clever; ask other people what they think before you submit them. Any samples that include serious pieces (e.g., an article you wrote for the Daily Texan), film scripts, or self-referential work (e.g., "I am cool! Hire me.") will be disregarded. Poorly proofread samples will be laughed at and burned.
We only bring funny people onto the staff. Competition is fierce, and we judge your abilities based solely on your application.
Design Staff (Illustration and Layout)
Include with your application at least three design samples. We especially need people with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign experience. Other graphic skills - such as drawing or Macromedia Flash - are also appreciated.
Administrative Assistants
If you're just looking to get involved, this position may be perfect for you. Help out with publicity, distribution, ad sales, and various miscellaneous sundry while soaking up the prestige of being on staff. All AAs are given a four-week trial period during which they must prove their worthiness before they are considered "on staff."
Enthusiasm, ambition, and a willingness to do grunt work without bitching are key.
If you don't prove your worth, you'll be asked to leave.
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- Don’t worry, President Powers administered 30 lashes to that guy that missed the kick that would have won the whole stadium Chick-Fil-A.
- So lame, God invited like EVERYBODY to his meteor shower party.
- When you have to add lightning to attract an audience for your garage band maybe it’s time to fill out that Pizza Hut application.
- There’s really nothing better than a UT home football game to remind you why, out of 50,000 students, you only associate with .04% of them.
- A dedicated thief will steal the signs talking about the huge amount of thefts that have occurred in the PCL.
- A lonely student will have his hopes raised only to discover that he was invited to attend another marketing survey.
- Students wary of public bathrooms will continue avoiding West Campus sidewalks altogether.
- Much like the grizzly bear, businesses on the drag will enter a state of hibernation to make it through the slow winter months. Drag rats will, of course, migrate.
- Urban Outfitters has announced that their plain white t shirts will be discounted to $29.99 for Black Friday sales.
- The recent box office success of the Twilight Saga once again proves teenage girls’ dominance over comic book nerds even outside of high school.
- When you leave your dorm for winter break, be sure to unplug your computer, turn off the gas, and grab your stash lest the RA pinch that shit.
- Roommate gone? Time to push the beds together!
- Sigma Chi brothers returning from winter break will not be able to understand why their house is filled with booby traps, until they realize that youngest pledge was left home alone all holiday season.
- Did you see the production of Pride and Prejudice on campus recently? We have nothing funny to say about this...it was quite good.
- Why would I buy Windows 7 when I can have Windows 98?
- We’ll take this opportunity to jinx our football team. We’re calling it: UT National Championship 2010!


