Iowa Jury Awards $3-Million to Former Student for Harassment

A state jury has awarded $3-million to a former Iowa State University graduate student who says that she was sexually harassed by a professor during a research trip and that the institution failed to properly handle her complaint.

Julie DeVall McElroy said that Lynn Glass, an education professor, made numerous sexual advances and insisted that she share a hotel room with him during a monthlong research trip to observe Americans studying in Moscow in 1995. A university investigation

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