A Louisiana State University professor was removed from her position of chair of the Department of French Studies in the wake of a lawsuit alleging LSU did little to protect six plaintiffs from an employee arrested for rape.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) Louisiana State University has removed the chair of its Department of French Studies a week after six women with connections to the university filed a lawsuit accusing the university of doing too little to address allegations of sexual harassment and assault against a French graduate student, a newspaper reported Thursday. […]
Two plaintiffs say they were raped by a French graduate student; others say they were targeted with harassment, unwanted physical contact or retaliation.