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UT Students Rally for DP Benefits

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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.