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With Andrew Learned catapulting to SG President this spring on comprehensive promises of change, and his recent resolution on student oversight of the judicial process sparking hope, The Minaret decided to talk to the students to find out their biggest desires for change at UT.
Though the faculty voted twice nearly unanimously, administrators said this year that they were just waiting for the results of a year-old benefits survey to determine what faculty members actually wanted. In February, it seemed a lot was riding on the results of the survey, which reportedly cost more than $60,000.
Locally, DPB are offered at Hillsborough Community College and at Stetson University, which has its law school in Tampa. Only two state universities (University of Florida and Florida International) offer DPB, and both use foundation funds to pay the cost, according to the Sun Sentinel.
Faculty members are growing frustrated by what they say is a 15-year-old administrative shell game in which the biggest losers are progress, equal rights and the university's reputation. Faculty voted twice in the past four years to endorse domestic partner benefits at the university.
Late Saturday night, Jason Eggert decided to leave a note for the 19-year-old roommate he had found beaten, stabbed and strangled to death just two nights before. He went to the Facebook page created to remember Samantha "Samy" MacQuilliam and wrote, "I got your bottle of Riesling off the top of the cabinet and put a sun colored rose in it. I'm so sorry, Samy, I wish i could have done something to help you." His simple late-night sentiment echoed those of dozens of relatives, professors and friends, some of whom knew about the abuse MacQuilliam had endured but most of whom had no clue. Although investigators were still processing evidence in the Palm Harbor home Friday, Eggert was allowed to retrieve MacQuilliam's tail-wagging Valentine. On Feb. 14, the stray puppy trotted up to the home shared by MacQuilliam and Matthew R. Dieterle, the man who within six months would be charged with her murder. Police say only that puppy (more)
