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Haskell aims to be model for Title IX University puts new emphasis on sexual violence enforcement and awareness efforts By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep
More American Indian and Alaska Native women have been raped than any other specific race, accord-
ing to this year’s White House report on sexual assault. Overall, the report says, few rapists are strangers. There aren’t many violent crimes reported at tiny
Haskell Indian Nations University. But school leaders say the culture of sexual and domestic violence — and reluctance to report — that many students encounter back home does find its
way to campus. Haskell has increased its focus on Title IX this year and hopes complaint investigations and awareness efforts can make campus and all of Indian Country safer.
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“A lot of these students that come here do come from backgrounds where violence is a lot more prevalent,” said Haskell student Please see HASKELL, page 2A
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Man, 37, left Lawrence Community Shelter headed for Kansas City in July By Caitlin Doornbos Twitter: @CaitlinDoornbos
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SCARLETT HOPKINS, 2, GETS SOME HELP FROM HER GRANDMA, Sue Hopkins, both of Lawrence, as Scarlett tries a blintz at the 51st annual Blintz Brunch, hosted Sunday by the Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation, 916 Highland Drive. The brunch raised money for general expenses and children’s educational programs at the LJCC.
It was a cool summer night when Nathan Thurman packed all of his worldly possessions in a bag and set out. The 37-year-old had landed in the Lawrence Community Shelter about 10 days prior, revealing little about where he’d come from or where he was going. Patrick Quinn, of Lawrence, got to know Thurman when he volunteered in the shelter kitchen. Occasionally, he’d share a cigarette with Thurman and shoot the breeze. Please see K-10, page 6A
Group plays matchmaker for small food growers, investors “
By Elliot Huges
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How different would our community be if the people who can afford to invest a little extra kept some of their investments local? That’s a question Nancy Thellman intends to answer. The Douglas County Commissioner has introduced to the Lawrence area a national movement that involves matching small, local food entrepre-
We don’t plant people or recruit people, so it’s completely dependent on strong local leadership.” — Woody Tasch, Slow Money founder neurs with investors. Over the last year she helped form Slow Money Northeast Kansas, one of more than a dozen regional chapters of a national nonprofit called Slow Money. The Slow Money movement takes its name from the Slow
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Food movement and is based on the theory that people should invest in small growers, organic growers and local food. The goal of Slow Money and its subsidiaries is to find ways to pipe investments into small food enterprises. And although Thell-
man’s young organization is still something of a fawn learning to walk, it’s already played matchmaker to one local enterprise and is helping another — led by an “Amish rockstar” — try to take home big winnings at the Slow Money National Gathering in mid-November. “I felt like (the Slow Money idea) was ripe for our region because it’s based on... investing locally in any farm or food enterprise,” Thellman said. “We have so much
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of that going on.” Slow Money began in 2010 and has invested about $38 million in over 350 small food operations since, according to its website. After attending its 2013 national gathering, Thellman sought an audience with the organization’s founder, Woody Tasch, when he came to Lawrence later in the year to speak at the Mother Earth News Fair.
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Heading into Election Day, Gov. Sam Brownback is still trying to persuade voters his tax cuts are fueling an economic comeback. Page 3A
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