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Ex-student sues Vanderbilt, professor/boss.(NEWSWATCH)

Women in Higher Education

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In August a former Vanderbilt University TN graduate student filed a $3 million suit against the school and a professor for sexual harassment and breach of contract.

Brigitte Kovacevich earned a doctorate in 2006 with a "low pass" grade and worked under anthropology professor Arthur Demarest at the Cancuen archeological project in Guatemala. Demarest, whose work was mentioned in August's National Geographic magazine, holds a named chair in the anthropology department.

According to the suit, Demarest hit Kovacevich and called her a "stupid [expletive]." Another time he told her "women are not good for anything but sex" and "women are only receptacles for semen," she claimed.

The suit also alleges that Demarest demanded Kovacevich help him procure Guatemalan women to sleep with, ...

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