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Haskell University Agrees to a Free Speech Settlement
Haskell Indian Nations University has settled a lawsuit filed after a former university president sought to dictate what student journalists could report and write.
Free-speech advocates said the settlement agreement with former Haskell student journalist Jared Nally includes policy reforms that will protect students’ constitutional rights on the Haskell campus, The Lawrence Journal-World reported.
Nally sued school officials in October 2020 when the university’s then-president, Ronald Graham, sent him a directive telling him not to contact any government agency for information while representing the newspaper or “attack” any student, faculty member or staff in copy. Nally was editor of the student newspaper, The Indian Leader, at the time.
