August 3, 2001

Australian Scholar Causes Furor With Web Site on Political Dispute

By GEOFFREY MASLEN

A lecturer at La Trobe University, near Melbourne, faces misconduct charges for establishing a Web page that the university says defamed a federal government minister. La Trobe administrators shut down the site, which was on the university's server.

Ken Harvey, a lecturer in La Trobe's School of Public Health, set up the site with academics from other institutions. It was intended to draw attention to claims that international pharmaceutical drug companies were exerting improper

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