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.