Dispute at New Mexico State Worsens Amid New Claims

Two professors whose contracts were not renewed by New Mexico State University, in what they say was a case of discrimination and retaliation, now say they are also the victims of baseless allegations of plagiarism by the university's president.

Administrators at New Mexico State, who have been dogged by bad press over the incidents, are looking closely at the professors' 2004 master's theses. A senior public-health professor at the university says that President Michael V. Martin, who

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