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APD joins anti-hate crime campaign By Forrest Milburn @forrestmilburn
Equality Texas and the Austin Police Department announced a joint campaign last week to fight discrimination against LGBT individuals following a rise in targeted hate crimes in major cities in the last year. Last Thursday, officials from APD, Equality Texas, an organization fighting for LGBT rights, and the Texas
Council on Family Violence held a press conference to discuss recent hate crimes and discrimination cases as well as actions the organizations are taking. “The vitriol, sexism, racism, anti-gay and anti-Muslim rhetoric in Texas and in America is fueling an atmosphere of hate in Texas and across the country that is causing innocent Texans to be beaten and almost killed,” Equality Texas CEO Chuck
Smith said. “This rhetoric is unacceptable and has real consequences for real Texans who are victims of hate crimes.” The campaign, launched during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, follows a string of around 20 alleged hate crimes dating back to last fall in the Dallas neighborhood of Oak Lawn, which is home to much of the city’s gay
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The University’s Supreme Court Clinic has offered law students experience with drafting briefs and researching arguments used in front of the highest court of the country since fall 2007, but for the first time the clinic has been put on hiatus. “This announcement came out of nowhere,” Diego Cervantes, a first-year law student who was looking into applying for the fall semester, said. Current law students and Supreme Court Clinic alumni have said they’re concerned about the sudden semesterlong closing, which they noticed a few weeks ago. Law school Dean Ward Farnsworth said a staffing problem had caused the clinic’s sudden suspension. Cervantes said he was accepted into Columbia Law but picked UT for the number of clinics it offered. He said he is worried the clinic may not be coming back, even though there’s been no official statement on the clinic’s permanent closing. “It was troubling that it was going away because maybe UT Law isn’t as ambitious as it should be,” Cervantes said. “It was taken away without any student input, so I’m concerned that it’s not set in stone.” Co-directors of the
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TAMU announces intention to Parking and Transportation extend campus carry to dorms Services creates bike council By Anusha Lalani
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As the implementation date for campus carry at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University (TAMU) approaches, TAMU announced it would expand its policy not only to classrooms but to its dorms as well. TAMU posted this announcement on its website along with a few exceptions to the policy. Three institutions within the TAMU system — Texas A&M International University, Prairie View A&M University and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi — have a third-party management company that leases its residential facilities. The University acknowledges the residential facilities rights to determine what restrictions they will
With scores of bikes crossing campus everyday, Parking and Transportation Services is working to create a council that will help represent UT’s cycling community. Starting with an introductory meeting last month, Jeremy Hernandez, bicycle coordinator for PTS, is pulling together members of student cycling organizations, Student Government representatives and others to gain insight into the matters that are important to students who rely on their bikes. “The purpose of the group is to promote cycling in general and to get different people’s
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Parking and Transportation Services is creating a council to give students a platform to discuss biking on campus.
opinions on how we can make things better,” Hernandez said. Hernandez said he looks forward to hearing people’s voices, even if they are airing a complaint. “When someone is frus-
impose concerning weapons, and so they will be an exception to the TAMU extended policy. UT President Gregory Fenves, however, vowed in February to ban carry in residence halls. Steven Goode, UT law professor and chair of the Campus Carry Policy
Working Group, which was established to assist Fenves with the policy before its implementation on Aug. 1, said the UT policy will not extend to on-campus dorms, with some exceptions.
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trated about something like a bike rack, for example, it’s great that someone actually wants to spend the time to call me and say, ‘Hey, I’d like to voice my opinion, trying to help with this situation,’” Hernandez said. “If
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