Lawrence Journal-World 05-07-2016

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Commission goes to judge; calling property ‘dangerous’ By Karen Dillon Twitter: @karensdillon

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AMANDA BLACKHORSE GREETS other guests during the Haskell Indian Nations University 2016 commencement ceremony Friday on the Haskell campus. Blackhorse, a Haskell graduate known for leading a legal fight to change the name of the Washington Redskins pro football team, urged this year’s graduates to stand up for indigenous peoples during her keynote address. BELOW: Haskell graduates participate in the commencement ceremony.

Haskell speaker calls on graduates to stand up for indigenous peoples

Douglas County commissioners are asking a Douglas County District Court judge to immediately issue an order to stop a family from operating a “junk yard” at the Fairview No. 21 schoolhouse south of Lawrence. The petition requesting a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction order or both was filed last week by Jeffrey Heiman of Stevens & Brand LLP law firm, which does legal

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told the Haskell community that even American Indian schools should start questioning whether their own mascots reflect the way they want to be seen by others.

By Conrad Swanson

Please see HASKELL, page 6A

Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson

Margie Hopkins said she was asked for a picture of her older brother, Donald E. Dillon, a few years ago, but was too scared to share what little she had. Hopkins was asked by a representative of the Faces Never Forgotten organization, which is attempting to find a picture for each of the 58,307 veterans who died in the Vietnam War and who are listed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. Born in 1934, Dillon died in Vietnam in 1967, Hopkins said. He was a sergeant in the United

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Multicultural Student Government faces uncertain future after chancellor’s veto Heard on the Hill

Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com

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o Kansas University Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little has vetoed the Student Senate’s decision to fund the Multicultural Student Government for the upcoming year. What happens to the $90,000 the group would have gotten for executive stipends and other expenses? Nothing. Incoming

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spokesman Joe Monaco. He said the fee package will be presented to the Kansas Board of Regents, minus the $2 fee previously allotted to Multicultural Student Government. The Senate’s next move regarding Multicultural Student Government remains to be seen, Please see MSG, page 2A

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students will simply pay $2 less per semester in required campus fees, so the Senate won’t have that extra $90,000 to allocate. The chancellor did not veto any other part of the Senate’s required campus fee package for 2016-17, nor did she shift that money elsewhere, according to university

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Photo of Marine who died in Vietnam completes county’s ‘face memorial’

By Sara Shepherd • Twitter: @saramarieshep

askell Indian Nations University graduate Amanda Blackhorse is known nationwide as the woman leading the legal fight to change the name of the Washington Redskins pro football team. This week in Lawrence, she

work for the county. The petition calls the property a “junk yard” and describes it as “dangerous” and a “nuisance” that could harm the health, welfare and safety of other residents, in addition to encouraging others to violate the county’s zoning regulations. It’s an unusual step for the county, whose codeenforcement philosophy in recent years has been to work with violators rather than to penalize them.

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States Marine Corps. Hopkins said she didn’t have a way to duplicate the photo and didn’t want to mail it for fear of losing it. Please see PHOTO, page 2A

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