State law would prohibit various protesting activities on public university campuses under a bill the Texas Legislature approved Sunday. The bill would limit where and when students and university staff can protest on campus, prohibit the use of bullhorns in many instances and bar protesters from wearing masks. In other news, construction has begun in the city 30 miles north of Dallas on a $300 million, 20,000-seat open-air amphitheater, the result of a public-private partnership with Colorado-based entertainment and hospitality company VENU;  the controversial STAAR test will be back next school year along with 5 million public school students after a bill that would have eliminated the end-of-year exam died Sunday when House and Senate negotiators couldn’t agree on how to replace it; and Morton Meyerson turns 87 Tuesday. Read about one of the last living lions of Silicon Prairie  in today’s edition of The Dallas Morning News. 

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