MISSOURI — The former adviser of the Muleskinnerat Central Missouri State University settled a lawsuit July 3that she filed against the school for the failure to renew hercontract in response to stories in the campus newspaper.
Barbara Lach-Smith and her attorney, Arthur Benson, declined to disclosethe conditions of the settlement.
Lach-Smith, who advised the paper for six years, said her contractwas not renewed in June 2000 because of stories that uncoveredunusual provisions in outgoing university President Ed Elliott’scontract.
After the article ran, university President Bobby Patton orderedthe reclassification of the adviser position from a nontenuretrack to a tenure-track position. Lach-Smith applied for the positionbut was never interviewed.
Read our previous coverage.
- Tough Calls Report, Winter 2001-02
- Judge allows adviser’s First Amendment lawsuit against universityto go forward News Flash, 5/24/2001
- Adviser sues school for ending contract Report, Fall 2000
- Former adviser sues university for terminating contract News Flash, 6/30/2000