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Megan Scarborough

NEWS 11/20/08 6:00pm

Students participate in city-wide rally against Proposition 8

By Megan Scarborough

Several hundred Houstonians, including a number of Rice students, gathered in front of City Hall last Saturday in solidarity with a nation-wide protest against Proposition 8, the California state amendment banning same-sex marriage that was barely approved by California voters on Nov. 4. Same-sex couples, straight allies and other activists held signs declaring their opposition to the ban and expressing their desire for gay rights.Co-President of Rice's American Civil Liberties Union club Ben Carson attended the rally along with about ten other club members.

NEWS 11/20/08 6:00pm

Students take on month-long novel writing challenge

By Megan Scarborough

Katz's Deli on Montrose Boulevard buzzed with even more than the usual late-night food frenzy Oct. 31, as costumed patrons celebrated Halloween. In one corner, however, a strange hush fell at the stroke of midnight. It was a table for four crammed with nine people, all wielding laptops. As October became November, these members of Martel College sophomore Ian Jones' class, Martel 142: Write a Novel in a Month, began to type furiously.

NEWS 11/6/08 6:00pm

Student travels to faith-based colleges for LGBT rights

By Megan Scarborough

Some Rice University students spend a semester abroad perfecting their French in Paris or studying native cultures in Argentina. But Brown College junior Cait MacIntyre is choosing to spend hers traveling through the Southern United States being verbally abused, socially rejected and even arrested. MacIntyre is traveling with the members of a civil rights group called Soulforce on its second annual Equality

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