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Rape is a campus concern Campus groups help counsel rape survivors and give pointers for safety. PAGE3
Duke offers free iPods
Duke University gives Apple iPods to 1,650 incoming
freshman at the August 19 orientation. PAGE 17
Golfers storm competition
The University of Kansas golf team brings home wins from weekend tournaments. PAGE 21
How to
Changing a flat tire on your car may be easier than you think. The Kansan shows you how it's do PAGE 27
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What's Happening ...18
Sports ...21
Entertainment ...25
Crossword ...29
Classifieds ...30
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VOL.114 ISSUE NO.159
Sweatin' out some tunes
Courtney Kuhlen/Kansan
Distance to Empty members Curtis Hayton and KU graduate Bo McCall sound check their instruments before their set at "Sweatin' It Out - The Summer Battle of the Bands." The event, co-sponsored by SUA, KJHK, Mass Street Music and UPS, was downstairs in the Burge Union on Thursday night. The event drew about 100 people. Read more about the battle of the bands on PAGE 16.
Tuition break opposed
Students file suit against in-state rate for immigrants
By Jay Senter
jsenter@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
When Christopher Heath saw an advertisement last spring seeking plaintiffs for a suit challenging a Kansas law that allows some undocumented immigrants to pay in-state college tuition, he decided to make a phone call.
Heath, a 22-year-old who transferred to the University of Kansas from a small school in Salinas, Calif., has lived in the state for two years and owns a home in Lawrence, but has been denied Kansas residency on multiple occasions. Why, Heath thought, should illegal immigrants be given a better tuition rate than a citizen of the United States?
Heath contacted the Federation for
American Immigrant Reform (FAIR), the organization that advertised for plaintiffs, got details on the case, and signed on. He is now one of nine University of Kansas students who are suing the state for injunctive relief against Kansas House Bill 2145, which allows any student who attended a Kansas high school for at least
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