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comer TCU waiting in Week 3.
• "Your ideal is that you go play a solid game in all three facets. You win the game and you play solid in all three facets," Weis said. "I would like to see the students, the alumni, the fan base and the football team start to have a positive connection. Part of that is us playing well."
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Activist probes street harassment of Indian women
KRISTI EATON,Associated Press
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Gender-based street harassment such as catcalling and other unwanted attention can be especially jarring for Native American woman who experience higher rates of sexual assault than their counterparts who are not American Indians, the founder of an organization to stop street harassment said.
• Holly Kearl, founder of the Washington-based nonprofit organization Stop Street Harassment, traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and Rapid City this week to talk with Native American women about their experiences with street harassment. Kearl hopes to use the information from the two small focus groups as part of a proposed national study looking at street harassment across the nation.
• "They won't walk certain places or go running certain places. One of the young women who is a runner won't go running certain places because of the harassment. ... They know the escalation of what some of these behaviors can turn into," Kearl said in a phone interview following the focus groups.
• One out of every three Native American women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
• The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, spanning more than 3,000 square miles in southwest South Dakota, is home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. About 40,000 people (Continued on page 23)
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