Student's Suspension Could Cost College

Gov. Ernie Fletcher, of Kentucky, has asked a state court to rule on the constitutionality of spending $11-million in state funds to build a pharmacy school at a private university that has come under attack for suspending a gay student.

The University of the Cumberlands, a Baptist institution in Williamsburg, Ky., suspended Jason Johnson in April after he posted on a personal Web page a statement that he was gay. The institution's critics say that because Cumberlands has shown that it

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