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Showing off his banner, Travis Parker from Oklahoma City won first runner up for the
Oklahoma Gay Rodeo Association. Rodeo fans from every state came out for the annual
International Gay Rodeo Association Saturday for a full weekend of rodeo events.
Walks promote safety
Melissa Boughton
Intern
One can be the loneliest
number, and when it means
walking alone in the dark, it can
be quite scary.
The NT Student Government
Association decided to do some-
thing about students walking
alone on campus at night and
organized a safety walk at 8 p.m.
today in front of the University
Union bus stop.
"We meet when it is dark, with
someone from facilities and
someone from the police depart-
ment, and we walk around and
point out areas on campus that
look unsafe," said Liz Murphy,
Garland junior and SGA director
of student affairs.
The SGA was planning on
holding a safety walk later on,
but the date was made sooner
because of two recent aggra-
vated robberies, including one
on campus.
"I think that what was kind of
alarming about those burglaries
is one of them happened to a male
student," Murphy said.
The SGA holds safety walks at
least once every long semester,
but will probably host the walks
more frequently next semester,
Murphy said.
Areas that are unsafe or just
too dark will be pointed out and
administration will be informed
to get more lighting.
"I'm really excited to get out
there and see if some of the
changes we made in the campus
since last spring have made a
difference, when it is actually
dark outside," said David Hall,
Richardson junior and SGA pres-
ident.
The walk allows students to
have one-on-one discussions
with members from facilities and
the police department.
"Also, you can turn in requests
for improvement because you've
got the person there who can
make things happen, so it is a
great opportunity for students,"
Hall said.
Anyone and everyone are
welcome to attend the safety
walk.
Roe lawyer gives presentation at MLA event
Pamela Bond
StaffWriter
Sarah Weddington, best known as Jane
Roe's attorney in Roe v. Wade, was the
keynote speaker for the South Central
Regional division of the Feminist Majority
Foundation's Global Women's and Human
Rights Project this past weekend at NT.
"I honestly don't think it could have
gone any better," said Brittany McLean,
Grapevine senior and FMLApresident. "I'm
still on a high from Sarah Weddington just
being here, much less being able to intro-
duce her and talk to her and have her sign
my book. It's a dream come true."
Friday night, the FMLA and Ms.
Magazine held a reception and Saturday
was reserved for the discussion of global
human rights.
The conference focused on different
Weddington
areas of women's
rights, reproductive
rights, human rights,
economic justice and
the environment.
Some of the discus-
sion topics were human
trafficking, the United
Nation's impact on
human rights, AIDS and religious oppres-
sion. Speakers for these topics came from
many different organizations, such as
the Human Rights Initiative, the United
Nations Association Dallas, Women on
the Border and the Sierra Club.
Weddington's keynote speech, "Never
Go Back: What's at stake in the fight over
the Supreme Court," served as the closing
plenary for the conference.
Thought to be the youngest female
lawyer to win a case in the Supreme Court,
Weddington was 26 years old when she
represented Norma McCorvey ("Jane Roe")
in the landmark abortion case. At the time,
she was not even hired by a law firm.
Weddingtion, a Texas native, served two
terms in the Texas House of Representatives
as well as general counsel to the depart-
ment of agriculture and adviser to
President Jimmy Carter. She also wrote
a book about Roe v. Wade, "A Question
of Choice," and founded the Weddington
Center. She now teaches at the University
of Texas at Austin.
After her speech, Weddington took ques-
tions from the audience, one of the first
of which was a question about the name
"Jane Roe."
"Well, it was during the Vietnam War,
and there were a lot of 'John Doe' letters,"
Weddington said. "And we just thought,
Doe, Roe. Since it was a class action [suit],
not just for Norma McCorvey, but for every
woman who wanted the option of an
abortion ... we wanted the name to sort
of centralize every woman."
Students and faculty from NT, Texas
Woman's University, the University of
Texas at Arlington, Texas State University
and Tulsa Community College attended
the conference.
The global and human rights project
is a follow-up program to the National
Collegiate Global Women's and Human
Rights Conference, held at the Feminist
Leadership Institute on April 6 in Crystal
City, Va. Three other divisions of this fall's
global conference were held in California,
Ohio and Georgia.
"It's a relief to have the conference over
with, because it was so much work, but it
feels so good that it's such a huge success,"
McLean said.
SGA election results
A total of 2,185 votes cast
College of Arts
for/
and Sciences
against
Chris Brown
244/0
Kiondre Guinyard
207/0
Martha Guzman
147/0
Lexi Macpherson
295/0
Priscilla Montoya
216/0
Sasha Moreno
269/0
Comfort Olugbuyi
220/0
Ryan Schuette
178/0
Kristen Ten Eyck
173/0
Ashley Thomas
224/0
Kevin Tran
225/0
College of Business
Administration
Trey Conolly
121/25
Michael Mangini
107/32
Christopher Marshall
109/30
Nicole Thurman
118/26
College of Public Affairs
and Community Service
Arnold Pruitt
17/0
David Kolinofsky
23/0
College of Engineering
Alfie Coy
14/0
Steve Wilt
22/0
School of
Visual Arts
Rachel Fogleman
27/6
Honors College
Daniel Strebe
10/4
Toulouse School of
Graduate Studies
To bye Nelson
0/0
SGA certified election results,
Nov. 11, 2005. The school of
library information sciences
had no candidate.
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