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KC CURRENTS 7-30-06

By Delores Jones and Sylvia Maria Gross

Kansas City, MO – Staff and students at UMKC mourn the shooting death of classmate Nathan Buie, Jr. last weekend (vigil pictured at left). Hear from students, and Minority Student Affairs Director Catherine Kironde and Assistant Director Keishanda Dees-Burnett. And painter Maria Vasquez Boyd talks about Full Deck - La Loteria, opening next weekend at Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery. For the show, local and national artists reinvent a deck of cards for the Loteria, a traditional Mexican bingo game.

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