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The Student Newspaper of the University of North Texas
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February 3, 2004
Volume 88, Issue 68
rotesters ight pharmacy
Groups target Eckerd s for violating rights
Vanessa Londono
Staff Writer
Around 50 protesters gathered in
front of Eckerd's drugstore on Uni-
versity Drive at 5:30 p.m. Monday
holding posterboard signs close to
the street as traffic whizzed by.
The group assembled to express
their opposition to a pharmacist's
refusal to fill a woman's prescription
for emergency contraceptives after
she was raped last week.
"Why deny somebody something
that could change their life ... it could
be your daughter, your mother, your
sister," said Samantha Sewell, presi-
dent of the NT chapter of the Feminist
Majority Leadership Alliance. Sewell
alerted members of FMLA to hurry to
the site and support the woman.
The Dallas Observer reported Jan.
29 that the woman, whose name has
not been released, had been given a
rape exam and a written prescription
for the morning-after pill by a doctor
who witnessed her condition. The
pharmacist at Eckerd's in Denton de-
clined to fill the prescription, saying
it violated his morals to provide it.
Eckerd's employees refused to
comment, but offered the number
for the media relations office, which
was closed.
Gloria Benavides, who serves on
the board of FMLA, helped form a
wall of signs with fellow protesters.
One sign read, "Got raped? Eckerd
doesn't care." Another simply urged,
"Stop violence, stop rape."
"This is a perfect example of right-
See PROTEST, Page 10
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Racy Marshall, Dallas junior, Gloria Benevides, Brownsville sophomore, and John
Michaels, Mondy senior, protest Eckerd's refusal to sell the "morning after" pill.
Net influences
political activity
Candidates use Web to raise funds
Joyce Tsai
Intern
Since he was 18 years
old, Landon Sloan, Garland
senior, has wanted to get in-
volved with a political cam-
paign. During the 2000 Bush-
Gore election, he didn't care
enough about either can-
didate to get
involved. But ^■
for 2004, it's a
whole different
story, to hear
him tell it.
He says he
still remembers
sitting down
for lunch and
a bit of TV in
between class-
es and work ^■
when Gen. Wesley Clark ap-
peared on CNN.
"I just listened to what he
had to say," he said. After-
wards, he wanted to find out
more about Clark, the man
and his message. And he did
that by logging online.
Like many other students,
Sloan is getting involved
in the political process for
the first time through the
internet's power to connect
"We'll be using
the new technolo-
gy to get as much
campaigning done
as possible."
- Joshua Yaklin
Chairman
NT Students for Bush
people at seemingly lighten-
ing speed.
"I'm 22 years old, and
I've never been involved in
a campaign before," Sloan
said. "But I always knew
I wanted to get involved."
he said. "It was so easy and
convenient though the inter-
net. I never thought that it
would be so easy, to the point
^m that I would be
creating a club
myself."
Now the
founder and
president of
NT Students
for Clark, a na-
tionally-affili-
ated chapter of
the Clark cam-
paign force, he
said that the
internet was a key catalyst
to political involvement.
By logging onto the Clark
national Web site, not only
was he able to connect with
other supporters in the area,
he was able to get campaign
materials at a click of a but-
ton.
He was also able to order
campaign buttons and stick-
See POLITICS, Page 10
John Cornyn accepts
internship applicants
Hunter Whirley
Daily Reporter
Karen Nicholson, State
Internship Coordinator
for U.S. Sen. John Cornyn,
will be at the NT Dallas
Campus to discuss intern-
ship positions 4:30 p.m. on
Tuesday.
Nicholson said intern-
ships will be available in
seven offices in Texas and
in Washington, D.C.
Nicholson said that
interns who work in the
state offices will primarily
be responsible for assist-
ing the regional directors
in meeting with constitu-
ents.
"The regional directors
are the hands, feet and
legs for the senator," Nich-
olson said.
The availability of un-
paid positions varies. Gen-
erally, two or three interns
are selected to work at each
of the state offices, requir-
ing 20 hours of work per
week. Traditionally, four
or five interns are selected
to work in Washington,
D.C., and are expected to
work 40 hours per week.
Applications for sum-
mer internships will be ac-
cepted until March 15.
"A student must have
at least one semester of
college," Nicholson said.
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DEBORAH TURNER/NT DAILY
A worker strides through a steel-framed corridor at the NT athletic complex. The facility
is on schedule to open in late 2004,
Facil ty set
to open in
late 2004
Jason Goodman
Staff Writer
The new NT Eagle Point athletics
complex and residence hall are on tar-
get for completion in the coming fall se-
mester, but a lack of funds could leave
the complex unoccupied and unfin-
ished as university officials scramble to
meet the growing demand for space.
Craig Alford, Austin Commercial
Inc.'s project manager in charge of Ea-
gle Point, said complex construction is
currently on schedule to be completed
around Nov. 1, 2004, and the residence
hall is on schedule to open in time for
the coming fall semester, with no pro-
jected budget overruns.
"At this point, things are going
well," he said.
The Eagle Point property is south of
Interstate 35E on North Texas Boule-
vard, next to the Radisson Hotel.
The athletics complex and residence
hall have undergone some design
changes, but according to university
architect A. Peter Giglio, the changes
are normal and have not slowed con-
struction
"Designs evolve just like everything
else," he said. "Every project has its
share of interesting developments."
See CONSTRUCTION, Page 10
"wo women take wedding vows
Non-legally binding ceremony protests civil-liberty violations
Vanessa Londono
Staff Writer
The couches in the Bruce
Hall lobby served as pews as
friends, residents and guests
gathered for the feigned mar-
riage of two women Saturday
night.
What began as a joke Jan.
25 in the Wal-Mart parking lot
quickly transformed into a full
ceremony between Brittany
Lair, Garland freshman, and
Caitlin Lyle, Rowlett sopho-
more, protesting the lack of
civil rights in the gay and les-
bian community.
"We were actually joking
around, since we fight like a
married couple, when we real-
ized that this could never hap-
pen even if we were [lesbians]
because of [the Defense of Mar-
riage Act] and the civil union,"
Lair said.
"We all have a plethora of
gay friends," she added. "It's
because of them. We figured
we'd make a statement out of
it."
Their statement was clearly
spelled out during the vows as
Lair and Lyle, neither of whom
are lesbian, joined together to
fight the anti-gay legislation.
The Defense of Marriage Act
was enacted in 1996 and denies
recognition of legal marriages
between same-sex partners.
"We are trying to show the
difference between the reli-
gious ceremony, which should
be left to religious groups, and
the legal rights of legal mar-
riage," said officiator Jennifer
Felix.
"The religious act of mar-
riage is taking the union in
front of God, but the legal mar-
riage is being able to have basic
rights," she said.
Felix, a lesbian and recent
NT graduate, wants to become
a minister. During the ceremo-
ny, she explained some of the
rights that are lacking to homo-
sexuals, including employment
benefits and taxations.
According to Felix, the fed-
eral government uses marital
status as the qualification for
more than 1,049 federally regu-
lated rights and responsibili-
ties.
Vermont is the only state
that allows civil unions among
homosexual couples. Mas-
sachusetts is slated to enact a
similar law legalizing same-sex
marriage.
"For me, if my partner was
in the hospital, I could not
visit her," Felix said. "I'm not
legally family and not related
to her. These are basic rights
that are afforded when a man
and woman can go down to
the [justice of the peace] and
fill out a thing for a marriage
license."
About 60 friends and pass-
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