I was reading the Lawrence Journal-World paper this morning, front page, the feature story reads, “ While purple isn’t exactly a welcome hue in Lawrence , the Washington Creek Lavender farm is filled with almost 5,000 plants just that color.” Isn’t exactly a welcome hue, that color. Do they not know purple is the color of Royalty, and “that color” just happens to be Haskell Indian Nations University. Sometimes I wonder if Lawrence knows we are here or if they care. I guess I can understand, after all we have only been here for 125 years, let me spell it out ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE YEARS. We have not change the color, it has always been purple. Maybe I am just sensitive, perhaps they were referring to that other Kansas school. Maybe we are considered a non-Kansas school. Once again I echo, “We are alive and well”