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May 11, 2010

Marietta Daily Journal: Around Town - ‘No Mas!’: KSU’s Papp clams up on illegals case

Posted by D.A. King at 9:57 am

Around Town: ‘No Mas!’: KSU’s Papp clams up on illegals case
by Otis Brumby, Bill Kinney, Joe KirbyAround Town columnists

May 11, 2010

NO HABLA INGLES? In further efforts to get to the bottom of the Jessica Colotl story, AT on Monday requested a sit-down interview with Dr. Dan Papp, president of Kennesaw State University, and Colotl herself. Colotl, 21, is an illegal immigrant who has apparently lived in the U.S. since she was a child and was a senior at Kennesaw State, before a traffic stop on campus - and her inability to provide a valid driver’s license - landed her in jail.

AT asked the university to help coordinate the interview with Ms. Colotl, because the address and phone she had given to KSU police and Cobb sheriff’s deputies at the time of her citation and arrest were found - surprise! - to be false.

But after multiple phone and e-mail messages throughout the day with Papp’s staff, we received a copy of the same statement they issued on Friday and this note from Frances Harrison, a university spokeswoman: “Please accept this document as our last and final communications regarding the issue.â€