May 16, 2003

Southern U. Settles Lawsuit

By PETER SCHMIDT

The Southern University System Board of Supervisors has agreed to give a new job to a congressman's wife who had complained of being unjustly removed from an administrative post for calling attention to alleged fiscal mismanagement.

As part of a settlement reached last month, the board offered Andrea G. Jefferson a newly created administrative post and $50,000 in exchange for her agreement to drop both a lawsuit challenging her previous dismissal and a separate whistle-blower

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