UT Students Rally for DP Benefits

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        UT Students Rally for DP Benefits
    
 Trudy Ring
          
          Nov 20, 2009
          
        
Trudy Ring
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
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Students at the University of Texas at Austin rallied Thursday to call for domestic-partner benefits for faculty and staff members.

The students say the university is moving too slowly to provide benefits for the same-sex partners of professors and other UT employees. 

Staff member Karen Landolt told Austin's News 8 that the lack of partner benefits "hurts the university's credibility" and "ability to recruit the brightest and the best, and to retain staff as well."

In April, Deborah Vargas, a UT assistant professor whose partner has health problems, cited the benefits policy as a reason for her resignation to take a job at the University of California, Los Angeles.

        
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“Give us this day our daily doctrine, and forgive us our tolerance, as we condemn those who seek equality, and lead us not to a blue wave,” writes John Casey

Thank you for being an inspiration to all of us who know that simply still being here and relevant is its own kind of victory, writes John Casey.

A majority said stopping care, even under a federal funding threat, violates the state's anti-discrimination law.

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“Stop putting hits on her head,” said St. Clair, who had a child with Musk in 2024.