Vivat Liber honors Sandy Mason and KU library legacy
Saturday Column notes the Vivat Liber symposium in Lawrence honoring Sandy Mason retiring from KU Spencer Library. It lauds Mason and Franklin Murphy era ideals, calls for continued library funding from state and private sources, and stresses libraries as a university’s memory and future.
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Kansas University
Franklin Murphy
Kansas
Murphy
Art Museum
Mount Oread
University of California At
Los Angeles
Times-Mirror Co
Helen Foresman Spencer
Spencer Research Library
Bill Crowe
Sandy Mason
Halcyon
Bob Vosper
Sandy
Mason
Spencer Library
McKitterick
Britain
Mike Hoeflich
KU School of Law
Lawrence
A.C. Elias
Philadelphia
Breon Mitchell
Indiana University
Nora Quinlan
Nova Southeastern University
Bernard Rosenthal
Berkeley
Calif
Gordon Sauer
Kansas City
Roger Stoddard
Harvard College
Spencer
Kenneth Spencer
Helen Spencer
Kenneth
Crowe
University
Two 15-year-olds charged after McLouth bomb threat
Tiffany Lash and Annie Cox, both 15, faced aggravated criminal threat and conspiracy charges in Jefferson County District Court after a bomb threat call to McLouth School led to evacuations. The investigation traced the call to a pay phone near a Texaco station.
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Oskaloosa
McLouth
McLouth School
Tiffany Lash
Annie Cox
Jefferson County
Jim Vanderbilt
Jeff Herrig
Herrig
Texaco
Lawrence
French first lady urges Peltier release at rally
Danielle Mitterrand, widow of former French president, urged Leonard Peltier's release at a rally at Haskell Indian Nations University. Speaking through a translator, she called his incarceration incomprehensible and spoke of Native American culture and family as she met Peltier in Leavenworth earlier. About 200 attendees heard her remarks organized by the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee.
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France
Leonard Peltier
Haskell Indian Nations University
Danielle Mitterrand
Defense Committee
Francois Mitterrand
Ethan Morales
Derrick Hicks
Lawrence
New Dawn
Haskell
Discovery Workshop to aid seniors’ life skills at Free State High
Free State High School hosts a Discovery Workshop for seniors and other students with four speakers including Kansas University football coach Terry Allen and Judge Deanell Tacha. Sessions cover goal setting communication stress and fulfillment for post high school life.
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Free State High School
Kansas University
Terry Allen
U.S. Circuit of Appeals
Deanell Tacha
Laura Swan
Freshman honored as HIM student of the year at Haskell
Allison LaVallie, 22, of Turtle Mountain Chippewa status, received the American Indian College Fund HIM student of the year award at Haskell Indian Nations University. The honor includes a $1,000 Castle Rock Foundation scholarship. LaVallie plans to graduate in May 2001 with a bachelor’s in elementary education. She serves as a church worship leader and praises the Lord for the recognition. The Castle Rock Foundation officials call these students outstanding as tribal colleges transform lives and communities.
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Allison LaVallie
Haskell Indian Nations University
LaVallie
American Indian College Fund
Castle Rock Foundation
United States
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians
Wand
Linda Tafoya
The
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Tacha
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