The paper has not been able to regularly or reliably access the account or the funds therein, making it impossible to budget its operations. Since January 2020, even after repeated requests, Haskell has only provided the paper with access to its student bank account a handful of times.
Without any notice or explanation, Haskell withheld more than $10,000 from the paper’s expected funds. Haskell also imposed financial and administrative hurdles to the operations of The Indian Leader, the award-winning student newspaper of which Nally is editor-in-chief, as a result of their reporting. But the First Amendment cannot take a back seat to amorphous, subjective values like “integrity” or “respect.” Haskell rescinded the directive - but only after a letter from FIRE, the Native American Journalists Association and the Student Press Law Center, and an inexcusable 90-day delay, due to an “administrative error.”
Under Haskell’s Campus Expression policy, student speech is only permissible if it is “consistent with Haskell’s CIRCLE values,” namely, Communication, Integrity, Respect, Collaboration, Leadership, and Excellence.
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Graham’s threat referenced Haskell’s Code of Student Conduct, which promises students the expressive rights they are due under the First Amendment - with a catch. Graham’s Directive threatened Nally with discipline if he engaged in these and other constitutionally protected activities, or failed to show members of the Haskell community the “highest respect.” After Nally’s reporting criticized Haskell, Graham issued a “Directive” forbidding Nally from engaging in standard newsgathering activities like recording interviews or asking questions of public officials. In the fall of 2020, student journalist Jared Nally drew the ire of Haskell Indian Nations University President Ronald Graham.
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