Jared Nally is the editor in chief of the student newspaper at Haskell Indian Nations University.
A national nonprofit dedicated to protecting free speech has filed a complaint against Haskell Indian Nations University to the United States Department of Education.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) argues in its letter to the Department of Education that Haskell’s recent actions against student journalist Jared Nally were a violation of the First Amendment and requests that the department initiate an investigation to determine whether monetary penalties or other measures are appropriate.
“Unfortunately, attempts to informally resolve many of these matters have revealed an institution whose lack of concern for students’ fundamental constitutional rights has ossified,” the letter, written by program analyst Sabrina Conza, read. “Even when organizations repeatedly brought concerns to the direct attention of the university’s leadership, its leaders
three months because the president
failed to send his rescission letter to the student or the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Student Press Law Center and Native American Journalists Association, who intervened on his behalf.
FIRE showed
The College Fix the Graham letter it received Wednesday from the Bureau of Indian Education, which said the president signed it Nov. 20. It’s undated, however. Graham didn’t send it due to “administrative error,” according to the feds.
Here’s what he said.
Yes, Graham admitted that “we took an incorrect approach” without admitting university officials objectively violated Nally’s constitutional rights and threatened him for obeying Kansas law.
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Question of the Day By - Associated Press - Friday, January 15, 2021
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - The president of Haskell Indian Nations University has walked back a directive instructing the school’s student newspaper editor not to contact any government agency for information while representing the newspaper or “attack” any student, faculty member or staff in copy.
Haskell President Ronald Graham wrote that the university “took an incorrect approach” in its Oct. 16 directive to Jared Nally, editor of The Indian Leader. Nally received Graham‘s letter on Wednesday, the Lawrence Journal-World reported.
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USA Today is on the warpath against high schools with so-called racially insensitive nicknames. In separate stories,
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