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Pitt hunger strikers end fast, switch tactics
Pittsburgh-After 17 days of fasting, a group of hunger strikers ended their fast, but not their protest of the University of Pittsburgh's refusal to give benefits to samesex partners of employees. The strikers say they will now switch their tactic to an educational campaign.
Seventeen students and one Pitt employee, who had fasted since April 12, broke their hunger strike April 28 by dining on grapes, bananas and watermelon outside the university's Cathedral of Learning, where they repeated their demand for a public meeting with school leaders.
Trustees chair J. Wray Connolly and Chancellor Mark Nordenberg are willing to meet privately with two protesters, the university
has said.
The demonstrators want a public meeting with the board of trustees to discuss Pitt's challenge to Pittsburgh's gay and lesbian civil rights law.
The dispute arose when Pitt denied health benefits to the partner of Deborah Henson, a former legal writing instructor.
Henson complained to the city's Human Relations Commission, saying the university's policy violates the civil rights ordinance, which forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation.
The university has argued that the city has no right to enforce the law because no similar state statute exists. It then sued to have the measure struck down.
A group of 21 students and one faculty member began the hunger strike during court proceedings, promising they would end their strike if university trustees would hold a public meeting to discuss the issue. The trustees refused, even after one fasting student collapsed from dehydration on the 12th day of the protest.
The student ended her fast after receiving emergency medical treatment. The remaining 18 strikers broke their fast together April 28 as they began a sit-in outside the trustees' office.
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"We've decided we're going to be a little more in their face," said protester Christie Hudson.
Nordenberg said in a prepared statement that he is relieved the students have decided to eat.
"We have been concerned about the health of the students involved in this protest from
"I lived in fear, didn't tell anyone about my condition until I had full blown AIDS. On that day I took my
life back and learned to live fully and with no regrets."
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in from Denver, Colorado to motivate and inspire the thousands who were there to march.
Howley contracted the virus in the early 1980s and eventually came down with full blown AIDS.
"I lived in fear, didn't tell anyone about my condition until I had full blown AIDS. On that day I took my life back and learned to live fully and with no regrets," Howley said.
Eight months after his personal awakening and mental transformation, Howley competed in his first triathalon and since has completed over forty others. He is currently running, biking and swimming across America raising money for AIDS related causes and cures.
This year's warm-up session was unique and funny all at once. Esther Craw, an accordionist about as large as her instrument, joyfully played as she led the audience in the chicken dance. The audience seemed to love this unconventional warm-up and the increasing tempo got every one fired
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the beginning. And though I know they continue to have strong opinions on the issue, I am pleased, for their sake, that they have decided to end the hunger strike,” the statement read.
The group told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette they would hold a rally outside of graduation services May 3.
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up to take off for the walk.
The march brought together a wide assortment of people and an equally large assortment of canine breeds. There were toddlers and septuagenerians, children in red wagons and people in wheelchairs as well as those from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and occupational groups. A group of hearing impaired marched with their speaking counterparts. Each group spoke just as much as the other, in sign or voice, using the walk for fellowship and catching up with old friends and making
new ones.
Friends, families and co-workers, straight and gay, gathered to raise money and awareness for AIDS. In addition to the organizations benefiting from the walk, several other GLBT-friendly groups, such
as Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, were a significant presence at the march. Retail stores including Banana Republic and Structure were out in larger numbers this year and leading with large and colorful banners.
Rob DuVall, a member of the planning committee for AIDS Walk '99, said at the start of the walk tha the hoped that it "should yield us over last year's $150,000."
By the end of the day's festivities DuVall confidently said that they "had probably exceeded their goal with about 3,000 participants in the walk."
While the count was not finalized by the end of the day, this year's walk equaled last year's funds and was expected to have raised closer to $200,000, DuVall said.
DuVall said that he was "very happy about the numbers."
"We wanted this to be a truly community oriented event," he continued, "and this is not just a gay issue so we invited everyone including soccer moms."