The fired president of Eastern Michigan University and his wife unloaded in a lengthy interview published this weekend as a series of articles in The Ann Arbor News.

John A. Fallon III, who was ousted last month after an outcry over the university’s bungled response to a student’s murder, seemed to pick up where his recent appearance on Larry King Live left off. Among the assertions he and his wife, Sidney, made to the newspaper:

The couple was uneasy about Eastern Michigan from the very beginning, when the university sent a draft contract stipulating that if Ms. Fallon decided to work, her job would have to be part time and not at the university. That language was ultimately removed, but the “big, black cloud” remained, Mr. Fallon said.

To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, the university recently returned more than $161,000 to a foundation with ties to Sallie Mae after New York State’s attorney general announced his investigation of scandals in the student-loan industry. Mr. Fallon said the university had received the money before he became president.

At a 2005 dinner with Howard Bunsis, president of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, Mr. Bunsis warned him that professors would go on strike the next year when their contracts expired. Mr. Bunsis strongly denied having issued such a warning, the newspaper reported.

Mr. Fallon told the newspaper that he did not intend to disparage the university with his public comments but hoped that speaking frankly would help Eastern Michigan resolve its problems. —Don Troop