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Harassment on campus brings big losses.(Western Oregon University)
* At Ohio University, the school and a former photography professor will pay $350,000 to a former student who claims the professor coerced her into posing topless. The agreement settles a $3 million civil rights suit against Larry Nighswander.
The agreement also requires Ohio University to change its procedures for handling harassment complaints and offer free graduate school tuition to the former student involved in the case if she chooses to return to the school. When Becky Humes first complained to the school in 2002 about Nighswander, they allegedly dismissed her allegations. While the school now admits her case "had merit," Nighswander maintains his innocence.
* The University of Colorado System will pay $1.5 million to a former psychiatry professor as part of a settlement of a lawsuit that claims Gordon Neligh was wrongly fired. He had worked there from 1987 to 1998, but the university did not renew his contract after he reported that university employees had harassed his assistant, a Muslim woman.
* At Western Oregon University, two former tenured professors said they left the school partly because its environment condoned sexual harassment of female students by male professors.
Dr. Dovie Trevino, formerly of the school's College of Education, said the administration treated cases of sexual harassment from students "very, very quietly, like nothing had happened." Discussing a case in which a tenured professor allegedly ...
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