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In a May 19 letter to <a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Cheap-Gucci-Outlet-Necklaces-Consignment-Men-Shirts.html>Gucci Consignment</a>  the association鈥檚 board of directors, Baylor President and Chancellor Ken Starr wrote that the university is 鈥減reparing the appropriate course鈥?to bar the BAA from continuing to act as an official alumni organization for Baylor.
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LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peruvian police investigators and a deputy minister met Tuesday with widows of four slain indigenous leaders who had resisted a steady onslaught by illegal loggers in their remote Amazon jungle homeland.The Ashaninka community's slain leader, Edwin Chota, had for years led efforts to obtain titles to its traditional lands near Brazil's border. He constantly confronted the loggers who strip the region's river basins of prized hardwoods, especially mahogany and cedar.Tribal authorities say they suspected illegal loggers in the killings, and described an intensified climate of fear.Pervasive corruption lets the illegal loggers operate unhindered in the region, and environmentalists said they only hope the death of Chota and the three others will be a catalyst for reform."We'll see what we can do to change this horrible tragedy into hopefully a small victory for indigenous rights and environmental justice," said David Salisbury, a professor at the University of Richmond who was advising Chota on the title quest and had known him for a decade.Peru's deputy minister of intercultural affairs, Patricia Balbuena, told The Associated Press from Pucallpa, the <a href=http://www.alportico.net/gosoc.php> true religion sale</a> Ucayali state regional capital, after meeting with the widows that she was organizing helicopter transport to the region on Wednesday so police could investigate and retrieve the bodies.The four men were killed Sept. 1 after leaving Saweto, their village on the Upper Tamaya river, to hike to the sister Brazilian Ashaninka community of Apiwtxa, said the village schoolteacher, Maria Elena Paredes.When the men did not show at Apiwtxa, worried comrades who had traveled ahead of them returned and found the bodies <a href=http://www.alportico.net/prodotti/christianlouboutin-sale.jkmsw.php>Cheap Christian Louboutin</a>  -- apparently killed by shotgun blasts -- near some shacks on the Putaya river, Paredes said.She said by phone that vultures had begun to feed on the bodies, which were found a six-hour walk from the 45-inhabitant village.Paredes said no villagers had seen the killers.Chota's campaigning for title to his community territory had emboldened other settlements along the Tamaya to similar seek legal claim to traditional lands, said Reyder Sebastian, a regional Ashaninka leader.Now, he said, people in those settlements fear for their lives."The community has always and continues to be threatened by the big loggers," said Paredes, who arrived in Pucallpa on Monday night with the widows and children of the slain men after a three-day boat journey."When you see your strongest leaders murdered I can only imagine the feeling of impotence," said Julia Urrunaga, country director for the nonprofit Environmental Investigations Agency, which has researched Peru's troubled forest concession system.Balbuena said she would propose putting a police post in the region. Communities in Peru's vast jungles are essentially lawless, the nearest police stationed often days away.After receiving death threats, Chota would sometimes flee to Apiwtxa for refuge.The country's main indigenous federation, AIDESEP, issued a statement Monday expressing outrage at police and the judiciary for "doing absolutely nothing despite repeated complaints" to protect the slain men -- who it said had joined "the long list of martyrs who fell in defense of their ancestral lands."The Ashaninkas are Peru's leading Amazon ethnic group and Sebastian said violence against them has risen since they began agitating for titles to their territories.Chota, who was in his early 50s, had written more than 100 letters to state institutions about illegal logging and titling efforts in Ucayali, said Salisbury, "and he was an incredibly dynamic and charismatic leader who gave hope to not just his community but many others by his courage and convictions."The wood from a single old-growth mahogany tree can fetch more than $11,000 on the U.S. lumber market, the Environmental Investigation Agency said in a <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/guccioutlet.onlinesalecc.php>Gucci Shoes</a>  2012 report.___Frank Bajak on Twitter: Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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The action stems from a lengthy battle between Baylor and the BAA over the alumni group鈥檚 independent status. The relationship was further severed after the association did not approve a transition agreement last fall that would have dissolved the organization鈥檚 independent charter and allowed Baylor to assume all alumni outreach and communications.
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鈥淥ver many months, we have clearly and repeatedly communicated the possibility of the exercise of the university鈥檚 legal rights in the absence of an appropriate plan of action from the association,鈥?Starr wrote in the letter. 鈥淏ecause we cannot shrink from doing our duty to serve all Baylor alumni; to guard against demonstrable confusion about the university鈥檚 alumni program; and to protect the integrity of Baylor鈥檚 good name, we have determined, with great sadness, that the time has come for us to move forward.鈥?
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In a written response to Starr dated May 30, former alumni association President George Cowden III charged that Baylor repeatedly has impeded the BAA鈥檚 efforts to continue its operations, including demolishing the Hughes-Dillard Alumni Center, which had been the BAA鈥檚 on-campus headquarters since 1978; locking the association鈥檚 staff out of offices they were using at Baylor鈥檚 Clifton Robinson Administrative Tower in December; and previous legal notices announcing Baylor鈥檚 intent to sever licensing agreements with the association.
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鈥淒espite these and a raft of other obstacles to our continued operation, our all-volunteer group of dedicated Baylor alumni continues to press forward with a steadfast hope for an inclusive, transparent exchange of ideas,鈥?Cowden wrote in the letter.
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The letter from Starr was written days after the BAA printed , a name Baylor also purports to hold trademark rights over.
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  That issue was themed 鈥淭he Real Story鈥?and gives the BAA鈥檚 account of the origins of its contentious relationship with the university.
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Baylor spokeswoman Lori Fogleman said the letter was not in response to the issue, but instead stemmed from ongoing frustration at the BAA鈥檚 slow progress toward redefining for themselves a role that鈥檚 consistent with its historic charitable purpose and with its own governing documents.
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Fogleman said about 50 percent of members surveyed after the Sept. 7 vote on the transition agreement were in favor of reorganizing into a foundation that primarily raises scholarships for students, for example.
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鈥淲e allowed time for the development of a plan that, unfortunately, nine months later, we鈥檝e received no such proposal from the association, nor does the association seem any closer to bringing forward such a proposal,鈥?Fogleman said. 鈥淭he university remains profoundly saddened and disappointed that the association鈥檚 been unable to agree to a constructive course of action going forward.鈥?
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The university previously ordered the group to cease using its name by Dec. 8, a notice issued in response to the failure of the transition agreement.
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The agreement was negotiated between members of Baylor鈥檚 board of regents and a small group of association leaders over 10 months, though the full details of the document were only revealed to the alumni group鈥檚 full board of directors and membership in May 2013, when it was announced publicly.
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The agreement garnered 55 percent of the <a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Gucci-Belts-Sale-Gowns-Shoes-Kids-Polos.html>Gucci Polos</a>  votes cast by the 1,499 members who participated in the vote, which had to be conducted in person at Waco Hall on Sept. 7, in accordance with the group鈥檚 bylaws.
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But the BAA鈥檚 bylaws required a two-thirds majority for any measure to pass.
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Baylor subsequently notified the group that it was terminating licensing agreements with the BAA that allowed the group to act as the university鈥檚 official alumni association and to use 鈥淏aylor鈥?in its name and activities.
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The BAA has argued that those agreements are granted to the association 鈥渋n perpetuity鈥?and that Baylor does not have the right to void them.
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Newly elected BAA President Keith Starr, who is no relation to Ken Starr, said the organization still plans to continue operating as the Baylor Alumni Association, and that the group is hopeful Baylor will honor the original licensing agreements.
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鈥淣obody that I know of from the alumni association is looking for a fight with Baylor,鈥?Keith Starr said. 鈥淲e love the university. Nobody would serve on the alumni association board or assume a position of leadership within the alumni association if they weren鈥檛 committed to the university.鈥?
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The BAA elected new officers and board members this weekend at its membership meeting.
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The group also is soliciting online input from members this summer on three options for the organization鈥檚 mission: solely raising money for <a href=http://www.aec-ist.com/css/Cheap-Gucci-Outlet-Shoulder-Bags-Continental-Wallet-Watchs.html>Gucci Shoulder Bags</a>  scholarships to Baylor students, focusing only on alumni communications and outreach, or being equally dedicated to both functions.
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The association鈥檚 board of directors will evaluate the feedback and bring a formal recommendation for the full membership to vote on later this fall.
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Keith Starr said the BAA has remained open to continuing to work with the university on a compromise.
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鈥淭he best result would be a truly negotiated resolution of the differences between the organizations,鈥?he said. 鈥淚 can鈥檛 control what the university does, all I can do is be sensitive to what the members of the alumni association want to do with our organization, in accordance with the agreements that we have with Baylor.鈥?
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@@@ LIMA, Peru (AP) -- Peruvian police investigators and a deputy minister met Tuesday with widows of four slain indigenous leaders who had resisted a steady onslaught by illegal loggers in their remote Amazon jungle homeland.The Ashaninka community's slain leader, Edwin Chota, had for years led efforts to obtain titles to its traditional lands near Brazil's border. He constantly confronted the loggers who strip the region's river basins of prized hardwoods, especially mahogany and cedar.Tribal authorities say they suspected illegal loggers in the killings, and described an intensified climate of fear.Pervasive corruption lets the illegal loggers operate unhindered in the region, and environmentalists said they only hope the death of Chota and the three others will be a catalyst for reform."We'll see what we can do to change this horrible tragedy into hopefully a small victory for indigenous rights and environmental justice," said David Salisbury, a professor at the University of Richmond who was advising Chota on the title quest and had known him for a decade.Peru's deputy minister of intercultural affairs, Patricia Balbuena, told The Associated Press from Pucallpa, the <a href=http://www.alportico.net/gosoc.php> true religion sale</a> Ucayali state regional capital, after meeting with the widows that she was organizing helicopter transport to the region on Wednesday so police could investigate and retrieve the bodies.The four men were killed Sept. 1 after leaving Saweto, their village on the Upper Tamaya river, to hike to the sister Brazilian Ashaninka community of Apiwtxa, said the village schoolteacher, Maria Elena Paredes.When the men did not show at Apiwtxa, worried comrades who had traveled ahead of them returned and found the bodies <a href=http://www.alportico.net/prodotti/christianlouboutin-sale.jkmsw.php>Cheap Christian Louboutin</a> -- apparently killed by shotgun blasts -- near some shacks on the Putaya river, Paredes said.She said by phone that vultures had begun to feed on the bodies, which were found a six-hour walk from the 45-inhabitant village.Paredes said no villagers had seen the killers.Chota's campaigning for title to his community territory had emboldened other settlements along the Tamaya to similar seek legal claim to traditional lands, said Reyder Sebastian, a regional Ashaninka leader.Now, he said, people in those settlements fear for their lives."The community has always and continues to be threatened by the big loggers," said Paredes, who arrived in Pucallpa on Monday night with the widows and children of the slain men after a three-day boat journey."When you see your strongest leaders murdered I can only imagine the feeling of impotence," said Julia Urrunaga, country director for the nonprofit Environmental Investigations Agency, which has researched Peru's troubled forest concession system.Balbuena said she would propose putting a police post in the region. Communities in Peru's vast jungles are essentially lawless, the nearest police stationed often days away.After receiving death threats, Chota would sometimes flee to Apiwtxa for refuge.The country's main indigenous federation, AIDESEP, issued a statement Monday expressing outrage at police and the judiciary for "doing absolutely nothing despite repeated complaints" to protect the slain men -- who it said had joined "the long list of martyrs who fell in defense of their ancestral lands."The Ashaninkas are Peru's leading Amazon ethnic group and Sebastian said violence against them has risen since they began agitating for titles to their territories.Chota, who was in his early 50s, had written more than 100 letters to state institutions about illegal logging and titling efforts in Ucayali, said Salisbury, "and he was an incredibly dynamic and charismatic leader who gave hope to not just his community but many others by his courage and convictions."The wood from a single old-growth mahogany tree can fetch more than $11,000 on the U.S. lumber market, the Environmental Investigation Agency said in a <a href=http://capstone.edu.sg/images/guccioutlet.onlinesalecc.php>Gucci Shoes</a> 2012 report.___Frank Bajak on Twitter: Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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