June 8, 2001

Iowa Reprimands Professor for Comments About 2 Colleagues

By SCOTT SMALLWOOD

The University of Iowa has reprimanded a longtime astronomy professor for violating the university's ethics policy after he criticized two of his colleagues in a local newspaper. In addition to a letter of reprimand, Louis A. Frank, an astronomy professor at Iowa since 1964, will lose a year's worth of the extra money he gets for holding an endowed chair -- about $13,500.

Mary Sue Coleman, president of the university, upheld the recommendation of the Faculty Judicial Commission, which