February 26, 1999

College to Change Mental-Illness Policies Following Bias Case

Snow College has hired an ombudsman and changed staff-training procedures in the wake of charges by a former student that campus officials discriminated against her because she was mentally ill.

Snow made the changes as part of an agreement with the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights, which investigated the complaint by Michelle Larson. Ms. Larson says officials discriminated against her after December 1996, when she was