Inside Higher Ed:
Uri Horesh, a lecturer in Arabic at the University of Texas at Austin who went on a hunger strike last week to protest the lack of benefits for the partners of gay employees, has ended his hunger strike — without a change in the university’s policies. In an e-mail message to supporters, he said he had become to weak to work on his dissertation and that while he felt guilty, he needed to end his fast. Horesh said he believed his strike had attracted more attention to the issue, citing extensive press coverage in Texas and elsewhere.