June 18, 1999

Controversial Scholar Loses Race-Bias Suit Against Wellesley College

By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN

A federal judge ruled this month that Wellesley College did not discriminate against a black professor when it denied him a merit raise in 1994. The professor, Tony Martin, wrote a book accusing campus Jews of attacking his ideas, and sued the college, claiming racial bias, after other professors received raises and he did not.

U.S. District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro granted summary judgment to Wellesley,