April 5, 2002

A Defendant's Lessons From a Harassment Suit

By MAURICE C. TAYLOR

I sat alone on a bench in the courtroom, directly behind the college's lawyers, preparing to testify before a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.

Two years earlier, in 1999, while I was senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Saint Augustine's College, in North Carolina, the vice president for technology, whom I supervised, had sued the institution and me for $7-million. She claimed that I had retaliated against her and had

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