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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2014
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Tuesday, Nov. 18
What: Idea Cafe
When: Noon to 1 p.m.
Where: Spooner Hall, The Commons
About: A free public event featuring speaker Maximilian Schich
Calendar
What: Open Mic Night
When: 7-9 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Alderson
Auditorium
About: Speak into the microphone to
share talents and for a chance to win
prizes.
Wednesday, Nov. 19
What: GIS Day
When: 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union
About: A nationwide event to promote awareness of geographic information systems (GIS) and how society uses it.
What: Walking Group
When: Noon to 12:30 p.m.
Where: Meet outside Wescoe Hall.
About: A 10 to 20 minute walk
around campus.
Thursday, Nov. 20
What: Sustainability Film Series Part II
When: 7-9 p.m.
Where: National History Museum, Panorama
About: A showing of the documentary "Shored Up."
What: Great American Smokeout
When: 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Where: Watson Library, Lawn
About: Tobacco cessation information and support.
Friday, Nov. 21
wnat: Stellar Evolution When: 7:30-9:30 p.m. Where: Malott Hall, 2001 About: A public event put on by the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
What: Saxophone Quartets
When: 7:30 p.m.
Where: 130 Murphy Hall
About: A free musical performance.
Mo. governor activates National Guard
A high school graduation photo of Michael Brown rests on top of a snow-covered memorial on Nov. 17, more than three months after the black teen was shot and killed nearby by a white policeman in Ferguson, Mo. The shooting sparked weeks of violent protests and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declaring a state of emergency today as a grand jury deliberates on whether to charge Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death.
DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Monday and activated the National Guard ahead of a grand jury decision about whether a white police officer will be charged in the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.
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Nixon said the National Guard would assist state and local police in case the grand jury's decision leads to a resurgence of the civil unrest that occurred in the days immediately after the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
"My hope and expectation is that peace will prevail," Nixon said. "But we have a responsibility — I have a responsibility — to plan for any contingencies that might arise."
There is no specific date for a grand jury decision to be revealed, and Nixon gave no indication that an announcement is imminent. But St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch has said that he expects the grand jury to reach a decision in mid-to-late November.
The U.S. Justice Department, which is conducting a separate investigation, has not said when its work will be completed.
Before the shooting, Wilson spotted Brown and a friend walking in the middle of a street and told them to stop, but they did not. According to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report based on sources the newspaper did not identify, Wilson has told authorities he then realized Brown matched the description of a suspect in a theft minutes earlier at a convenience store. Wilson backed up his police vehicle and some sort of confrontation occurred before Brown was fatally shot. He was unarmed and some witnesses have said he
Brown's shooting stirred long-simmering racial tensions in the St. Louis suburb, where two-thirds of the residents are black but the police force is almost entirely white. Rioting and looting a day after the shooting led police to respond to subsequent protests with a heavily armored presence that was widely criticized for continuing to escalate tensions. At times, protesters lobbed rocks and Molotov cocktails at police, who fired tear gas, smoke canisters and rubber bullets in an attempt to disperse crowds.
had his hands up when he was killed.
Nixon also declared a state
of emergency in August and put the Missouri State Highway Patrol in charge of a unified local police command. Eventually, Nixon activated the National Guard to provide security around the command center.
"My hope and expectation is that peace will prevail."
JAY NIXON
Missouri governor
Department would be in charge of a security in Ferguson and would work with the Highway Patrol and St. Louis city police as part of a unified command to "protect civil rights and ensure public safety" in other jurisdictions.
This time, Nixon said the St. Louis County Police
The governor did not indicate how many National Guard troops would be mobilized, instead leaving it to the state adjutant general to determine. Nixon said the National Guard would be available to carry out any requests made through the Highway Patrol to "protect life and property" and support local authorities. If the Guard is able to provide
security at police and fire stations, then more police officers may be freed up to patrol the community, Nixon said.
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said Monday that he supports Nixon's decision to activate the Guard. He said the Guard "will be used in a secondary role" and could potentially be stationed at places such as shopping centers and government buildings.
"The way we view this, the Guard is not going to be confronting the protesters and will not be on (the) front line interacting directly with demonstrators," Slay said.
KBOR FROM PAGE 1
strongly believe that," said Will Admussen, government relations director and coauthor of the resolution.
The senate's opposition to the amendment stems from its wording, which would allow only "consultation" with student government leadership instead of a referendum of the entire student body.
Admussen said the word "consultation," the threshold that universities have to meet, is too unclear and allows for too much interpretation.
"It's open to way too much interpretation, especially down the road when you maybe get a student body president that isn't on top of this, and not just at KU, but all the KBOR schools," Admussen said. "You could get an off-year student body president, or you get an administration that really doesn't like Student Senate and their view of "consultation' extremely disenfranchises the student body when you're talking about student fees."
The student body presidents of all of the schools learned of the
amendment at the October regents meeting through the KBOR Student Advisory Council. After deciding the amendment was not in the best interest of their student bodies, the presidents moved to oppose it using resolutions of opposition from each school.
When the resolution
"I think, in general, students would like to see a referendum held just to get the student input and opinion when using their tuition dollars," Reagan Kays, student body president of Kansas State, said last week.
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passed at KU, it was then sent to Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and Vice Chancellor Tim Caboni, as well as the Board of Regents.
"More input is always better when you're talking about something that every single student pays," Admussen said.
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