July 15, 2005

N.C. State Ordered to Pay $300,000

By DEVIN VARSALONA

North Carolina State University must pay $300,000 to two former students who sued the university over their sexual harassment by a professor, a state panel has ruled.

North Carolina State failed to follow its own "zero tolerance" policy on sexual harassment and has a "pattern of ignoring complaints of sexual harassment and threatening behavior," said an order issued by the state Industrial Commission, which handles workers' compensation cases.

In 1997 Evelyn M. Gonzales, 32, and

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