May 10, 2002

Former U. of Michigan Student Awarded $250,000 in Sexual-Harassment Case

By SHARON WALSH

A Michigan jury last week awarded a former music student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor $250,000 in damages after finding that she had been repeatedly sexually harassed by a professor there.

Maureen N. Johnson, an oboist and graduate student in the classical-music-performance program, complained in the fall of 1997 that she was being harassed by Pier Calabria, a professor from Italy who had a four-year appointment with the university's School of Music and was serving as

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