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A-State Responds to Sanctuary Campus Request

Arkansas State University

Arkansas State University denies a request to make the Jonesboro campus a sanctuary campus.  In a signed petition given to the Arkansas State University System, Dr. Michelle Merritt made the request in light of a recent executive order that would temporarily ban people from seven specified countries from entering the United States.  A federal judge issued an emergency stay allowing those who are already in the country from being deported.  Bills going through the Arkansas House and Senate would prevent cities and institutions of higher education from being sanctuary cities and campus.   View the letter sent to the System office here:

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Here is the response two-page response from Arkansas State University:

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Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.