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Valparaiso University filed a petition Tuesday to move forward with the auction of the three cornerstone works of art from the Brauer Museum to fund freshman dorm renovations, noting a $9 million deficit and declining student enrollment.

"Im embarrassed," she said. "Im humiliated about this."

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against Valparaiso University and its president, José Padilla, in a bid to stop the sale of millions of dollars of artwork to fund dorm improvements for first-year students. Sale of the artwork isn’t going forward yet, as the Indiana Attorney General’s Office still has to rule on whether the Percy H. Sloan Trust, which provided directly or indirectly for ...

Do Dick Brauer, the namesake of the Brauer Museum at Valparaiso University and its first curator, and Philipp Brockington, a retired university law professor who is one of the museum’s benefactors, have legal standing to stop the sale of the museum’s most valuable artwork so the proceeds can be used to fund dorm renovations? That’s now in the hands of Porter Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Thode. ...

Wednesday’s tour of the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus by residents of Pines Village Retirement Communities was to celebrate the legacy of Josephine Ferguson as a major benefactor of the museum. Ferguson, who died March 11 at age 99 and also lived at Pines Village, would have been 100 on Aug. 30. Her investment in artwork, said those leading the tour of the Ferguson ...

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Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is backing up Valparaiso University’s contention that a lawsuit to stop the sale of three of the Brauer Museum’s most valuable pieces of artwork to fund dorm renovations for first-year students should be dismissed because the plaintiffs who filed the suit don’t have standing to do so. In a Tuesday filing, Rokita reiterates the university’s claim that ...

She reportedly told the officer she had heard Smith provided tattoos to minors without parental consent and arranged to get matching tattoos with her then-boyfriend.

She told police she sometimes carries the knife for protection.