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No title (id: 13941)
Westword investigates several major sexual harassment complaints at Colorado's largest university. The story reveals a pattern of inaction and cover-up by top university officials, as well as questionable expenditures from a six-figure "discretionary fund" by the official chiefly responsible for investigating harassment claims. (June 6, 1996)
Tags: Prendergast Fear and groping in Boulder Contest entry Conflict of interest 13 pgs.
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The Stand
Lingua Franca investigates the dangers involved in using academics as expert witnesses and allowing them to testify, possibly compromising their scholarship for modern-day political causes. The article focuses on a Colorado case that outraged many homosexuals by making it illegal for any state agency to designate homosexual, lesbian or bisexual "orientation, conduct, practices, or relationships" as the basis for protected legal status. During the trial, University of Chicago classicist, Martha Nussbaum, testified on Plato's views of anal intercourse, swaying the outcome of the trial and causing some of her colleagues to accuse her of perjury. (Sept. - Oct. 1996)
Tags: Mendelsohn The Stand Judges Lawyers Academic honesty Translation 13 pgs.
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No title (id: 8414)
Boulder Daily Camera discovers that the University of Colorado's top executives and the coach of the football team received large financial bonuses and housing allowances, which ranged from $5,000 to $75,000, May - November 1991.
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Therft probe clouds hiring of CSU alumni chief.
Rocky Mountain News (Denver) investigates a former University of New Mexico official who left under allegations of fraud but who was hired by Colorado State University as its alumni director; official later declined the job offer, Nov. 3, 1986.
Tags: Wright Waller CSU
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No title (id: 6570)
Westword (Denver) reports on rape and other criminal behavior by members of the University of Colorado's football team: a female track star claimed she was raped by a football player, and was forced out of school; two other team members were charged with rape; coach Bill McCartney's daughter was pregnant by the team's star quarterback, August - November 1989.
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