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Students study cadavers, p 10
Opinion: Navajo Nation at the UN, p 6 Sports: Football, p 15 A&E: Virginia Woolf, p 20
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Issue 5, VOL 99 Sept. 29 - Oct. 5, 2011
Ned Callejo testifies in front of the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission at Flagstaff City Hall. (Photo by Daniel Daw)
Peaks protests brought to U.N. BY William Brown
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resident Ben Shelly of the Navajo Nation addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council Sept. 20 about the concerns of his people regarding the treatment of Navajo ancestral lands — with a particular emphasis on the snowmaking operations on the San Francisco Peaks. “I was happy to address them on the issue of sacred sites of indigenous peoples,” Shelly said. “I was hoping
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to relay a message that I’m having a problem with things [having] to do with our sacred sites.” Shelly said he was satisfied with the outcome of his visit to the United Nations, which allowed him to voice the views of the Navajo Nation and draw national, and perhaps even international, attention to the reclaimed water fight on the San Francisco Peaks. “I would be very disappointed if it doesn’t,” Shelly said. “The Human see PEAKS page 4
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Suspects in Sechrist burglary arrested
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he NAU Police Department arrested two suspects who were connected with a campus burglary. NAU student Bryan Rowan, 20, and Morgan Brown, 23, were arrested and put into the Coconino County Jail with the help of both NAUPD and the Flagstaff Police Department.
How a dedicated group of NAU students and Flagstaff residents ‘overgrow the ordinary’ BY natalie pindea & jon novak
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he best way to understand it is to experience it,” says Monk Alex Buigas, who graduated from the University of Florida with not only a degree in business one in enlightenment as
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well. He’s moved from the tropics to the serene mountains of northern Arizona where he runs the independent, not-forprofit grassroots organization called the Bhakti Vine. Its motto is “overgrowing the ordinary.” The place is universal in essence, and it is open to all. see KRISHNA page 13
Since school began, members of the Bhakti VIne have brought their charm to campus. (Photo by Garry Hart)
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