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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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by Dr. John Doe and Nurse E. Tal and that on February 9, 1979, while she was in labor, the mother was seen and examined at the out-patient clinic by Dr. Richard Roe. It is alleged that these members of the University staff were negligent in their evaluation of the nature and stage of the mother's pregnancy, and in their failure to perform or order proper tests and treatment, including admission to the University's hospital to facilitate delivery, as a result of which Baby Girl Stovall was not delivered until February 10, 1979 and died on February 11, 1979 of post-maturity syndrome. T h e university counsel has recommended that he be authorized to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to protect the interests of the University in this matter, to defend the action and to provide representation for those members of the University staff who request the same, all in accordance with the University's risk management and selfinsurance program. I concur.

Litigation Initiated by Paul Yakin

(27) A complaint has been filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Case No. 79 C 4070) by Paul Yakin, a former candidate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology at the Chicago Circle campus. The named defendants are the University and certain University personnel at the Chicago Circle campus, including Vice Chancellor Richard Johnson, former Dean Jan Rocek and Professors Roger Dominowski, I. E. Farber, Leonard Eron (misnamed in the complaint as "Dr. Leonard F r o n " ) , Michael Levine, Phillip Ash, Benjamin Kleinmuntz, Judith Torney and Merwyn Garbarino. Budd H. Bowen, an investigator of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, is also named as a defendant. The complaint is in four counts and seeks reinstatement of the plaintiff as a candidate in good standing in the Ph.D. program, damages in an unspecified amount, and the costs of suit including reasonable attorney's fees. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff was discriminated against by the defendants on the basis of his national origin (Mexican-American) in a series of academic decisions leading to his termination as a candidate for the Ph.D. degree in Psychology at the Chicago Circle campus, to which program he had been admitted through the Department's Graduate Educational Opportunity program in 1974. In addition, it is alleged that the plaintiff was denied due process in connection with a grievance he had filed, and that the defendants violated an implied contract created by the Graduate Educational Opportunity program statement in that he was not given special academic support and other services promised by that affirmative action program. The university counsel has recommended that he be authorized to take such steps as are necessary or appropriate, including the employment of special counsel, to protect the interests of the University in this matter and to provide representation for those University employees who request the same, all in accordance with the University's risk management and self-insurance program. I concur.

Litigation Relating to the Reopening of Paulina Street, Medical Center Campus

(28) On March 21, 1979 the Board of Trustees authorized the initiation of legal action against Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, the City of Chicago, the Medical Center Commission, and the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board to cause the rescission of an ordinance previously adopted by the City of Chicago vacating and closing a one-block segment of Paulina Street between West Harri-