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said he was with Hawkins almost every day until his death and considered him one of his closest friends. He said Hawkins was a "goofy, hilarious" friend to have around. He has known Hawkins since August and said he had never seen him angry.
"It itd matter if you knew him for a day or you knew him his whole life, he would take you in," Miller said.
Miller said he and other members of the fraternity were notified of Hawkins' death Friday morning. He said he couldn't believe the news.
"It didn't really hit me until he didn't text me like he did every morning. I didn't get a text and that's when I knew something was really wrong." Miller said.
Keenan Soto, Overland Park sophomore and vice president of the fraternity, said he had been excited to get to know Hawkins better following his recent initiation.
"He was a great friend to all of us," Soto said. "He had a great head on his shoulders."
Soto said Hawkins was funny, yet respectful.
"He was a blast to be around — really funny and outgoing." Soto said.
Hawkins is survived by two sisters, Makenzie, 14, and Misty, 35; his parents, Shawn and Rhondae and three grandparents.
Makenzie Hawkins said her brother's death was a complete
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shock to the entire family. She said her brother was outgoing and always had the "biggest smile."
"He was always really nice and he gave me energy to keep going," she said. "I really looked up to him."
Makenzie said Dalton was smart and easy to love.
"He never did wrong. He was always a straight-A student," she said.
Miller said the fraternity, leadership and residents of Ellsworth, and leadership from Watkins were organizing a memorial service to take place behind Ellsworth sometime this week.
"He was just a great guy who didn't deserve to go this early," he said.
The visitation will be from 6 to 8 tonight at Amos Family Funeral Home, 10901 Johnson Dr., Shawnee. Hawkins' funeral is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday at Crossroads Christian Church, 5855 Renner Rd., Shawnee. Both are open to the public. Following the funeral, Hawkins will be buried at Shawnee Mission Memorial Gardens, 23215 75th St., Shawnee.
— Edited by Jesse Trimble
Tamil Tiger rebels to spare trapped civilians
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Internally displaced Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil civilians gather around a truck to receive food at a camp for the displaced in Manic Farm in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, Sunday.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Facing imminent battlefield defeat, Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels declared a unilateral ceasefire Sunday and called on the government to halt its offensive to spare the tens of thousands of civilians trapped by the fighting.
The government rejected the appeal and accused the rebels of playing for time as the military stands poised to rout them and end the separatist war that has plagued this Indian Ocean island nation for a quarter century.
"This is a joke," Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said of the rebels' truce offer.
The cease-fire declaration came amid a chorus of international appeals for a pause in the fighting to allow the estimated 50,000 ethnic Tamil civilians remaining in the war zone to escape. The government and aid groups accuse the rebels of holding the civilians hostage to blunt the government offensive, a charge the rebels deny.
Reports from the region have detailed growing cases of starvation and civilian casualties in recent days.
The United Nations, which said nearly 6,500 civilians had been killed over the past three months, had sent its top humanitarian official on an emergency mission to Sri Lanka to push for a ceasefire. John Holmes met Sunday with senior government officials
to underscore "the urgent need for humanitarian access by the U.N. to the combat zone," U.N. spokesman Gordon Weiss said.
The government barred aid workers from the region when the fighting escalated in September.
the northern region of Vavuniya to inspect displacement camps and hospitals that have been overwhelmed by the more than 100,000 civilians who fled the war zone over the past week.
Holmes was to head Monday to
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CONCERT Alcohol-free performance in honor of Jason Wren
Sigma Alpha Epsilon members will sell tickets in front of Wescoe Hall from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today and Monday, Nehring said. Tickets can also be purchased at Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
The concert, which will feature musician Kelley James, will start at 7 p.m. Monday in Sigma Alpha Epsilon's backyard, 1301 West Campus Road.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon is holding an alcohol-free concert in honor of Jason Wren, who died from suspected alcohol poisoning in the fraternity's house March 8.
As of Thursday afternoon, organizers had sold about 200 tickets to the concert, and hoped to sell "a couple hundred more," Jonathan Nehring, LeRoy sophomore and one of the concert's organizers, said.
Tickets for the concert are $10. The proceeds will go to the Jason Wren Memorial Fund, a charity fund set up by Wren's family members to build a memorial at Wren's high school in Littleton, Colo., and to raise awareness of issues surrounding Wren's death, including the University's privacy policy.
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