LAWRENCE Jared Nally’s post-high school experience was a meandering, years-long journey through various colleges as he tried to nail down what he wanted to do with his life.
So when he arrived at Haskell Indian Nations University in fall 2019, he was excited to have not only found a place to get deeply involved in campus activities but a student newspaper that would pay him to do it.
He never thought he would have to sue the university to protect that right.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court of Kansas in Leavenworth against the university and its president, Ronald Graham, and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education and its director, Tony Dearman, Nally and the newspaper’s publishing company, Indian Leader Association, allege that the university violated Nally’s and the paper’s First Amendment rights.
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Following Student Press Freedom Day, FIRE files a lawsuit on behalf of student newspaper and editor-in-chief against Haskell Indian Nations University and its president who issued “directive” forbidding routine newsgathering
Federally-operated tribal university in Kansas shorted funding for student newspaper by over $10,000 without any explanation and ignored emails for months
LAWRENCE, Kan., March 2, 2021 Jared Nally is fighting for his rights and the rights of student reporters across the country.
Nally wants Haskell Indian Nations University, a public institution operated by the federal government, to answer for the 90 days he was silenced, without any due process, under a directive that banned him from engaging in basic acts of journalism. He also wants Haskell to restore over $10,000 of funding that the university inexplicably shorted the ne