News

Today was our last meeting for the semester. Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and a relaxing break to everyone. Good luck with Finals!!!

As the final group activity this semester, we will gather on Thursday at 5:00 PM at the entrance of the Student Center to go Chritmas caroling at the Samaritan House.

Board elections were today. You can find the results at the Board 2003 page.

We had guests from the Health Center who talked about stress and stress relief.

Leif Mitchell will present Gay, Greek & Proud tomorrow at 1:00 PM in the Student Center. Please all come and show your support for this program.

We had fun playing games tonight. Katie Gorden, Andrea Reed and other candidates came by to campaign for the elections tomorrow. Don't forget to vote!

Our own elections are December 2, 2002. All positions are up for grabs again. If you want to run for any office or want to know more about it, contact Sebastian.

It's been a long time since the news have been updated. So, here goes what happened at this week's meeting.

The STAMP conference is on the weekend of November 16/17. A couple of members will drive to Austin and attend the conference. If you are interested, check out the web site and contact Sebastian.

On November 19, we will have Leif Mitchell hold his presentation Gay, Greek & Proud. He will be talking about how living in a fraternity affects gay students and what one can do to be more open-minded and tolerant towards them. The event is co-sponsored with Programming Council. After today's meeting, we went to the SGA office to make posters to hang in the Student Center.

We finally have T-shirts!!! They are white with purple writing. On the back is the eQ Alliance horned frog logo with the slogan In With The Out Crowd. The front shows "TCU", "eQ Alliance" and the slogan on the upper right corner. You can purchase a T-shirt for $10 by contacting Sebastian.

T-Shirts are postponed until next semester. They will have our slogan "In with the Out crowd" on them. The price is $10 each.

We need to collect ideas for fund-raising events. We can't rely on funding from SGA or PC. Please e-mail Sebastian if you have any ideas.

Next week is our last meeting for this semester. We need to book a speaker for NCOD so we can get funding for him. Our prospects are Chastity Bono, Debra Davis, Shane Windmeyer, James Dale, or Alan Ball.
If you have any other (viable) ideas, please contact Sebastian or send it through the mailing list.

Sebastian from UTA's glba came to talk to us about starting an Allies Program at UTA. We will stay in contact with him and hopefully work closer together in future.

National Coming Out Day 2002 is the day of Fall Break. Because of that, our events this year will be held the week of NCOD. Planned events include a gay-lesbian themed Chapel Service on October 9th, a panel and guest speaker on October 10th, and Pride Formal on October 25th in combination with Halloween.

To prepare for Howdy Week in Fall semester, eQ will get together the week before finals to create hand-outs, fliers, and other material to use for our table.

The HRC sent out an info e-mail about Youth College, a 3-month program exposing student leaders to political campaigning for this year's Congress elections. For more information, go to the HRC Youth College web site.

Board elections have been held. The outcome of the votes can be found on the Board page.

The Day of Silence is Wednesday, April 10th. Sarah Hogue has promised to drop the cards at the University Ministries Office on Tuesday.

On Friday, April 12th is the Allies Brown Bag Lunch where eQ Alliance and the TCU Allies will get together. We will talk about the history of eQ and the TCU Triangle and where eQ is going in the future.

Board elections will be held next week. Running candidates are:

• For President:
  Sebastian Moleski
  Melissa Osborn
• For Vice President:
  Michael Cruz
• For Treasurer:
  Meredith Smith
• For Secretary:
  Craig Larson

Next week is the Day of Silence. Ms Hogue introduced the event last night talking about how high schools discriminate against gay-lesbian student associations.

The eQ Alliance will participate in this year's FrogStock on Wednesday, April 3, from 4:00pm to 8:00pm at the Frog Fountain. We will have a raffle with prizes sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign. Thanks to Allison Russell and her brother for getting the HRC material.

On Friday, April 5, from 11:00am to 2:00pm is the AIDS Testing Fair organized by the Social Work Department. Students who get tested get a T-shirt which will also feature the eQ logo on the back.

During Community Council, the "not so big challenge" sheets were distributed. The eQ Alliance submitted a proposal for a co-sponsored National Coming Out Week. The event includes a discussion panel, an invited speaker (preferably Candace Gingrich, Ian McKellen or Rosie O'Donnell), and Pride Prom.

Due to financial and support problems, Pride Prom 2002 has been postponed to the Fall semester as part of National Coming Out Week.

eQ members will support the 2002 Tarrant County AIDS Walk at Trinity Park, Fort Worth on Sunday, March 23rd. Entry is $15. Interested members please contact Rob.

The eQ Alliance adopted its new constitution. The Board consisting of Rob Darnell (President), Bernardo Vallarino (Vice-President), Melissa Osborn (Secretary), and Meredith Smith (Treasurer) remains in office. The constitution can be found under the Resources section.