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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1976
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588 BOARD OF TRUSTEES campus. After extended hearings the FEPG dismissed the complaint as not well founded. The University Counsel reported that, during the recess preceding the Executive Session, President Corbally and Chancellor Riddle had been served with a summons and complaint in connection with litigation initiated by Willie Nell Love in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Case No. 76 C 954). The complaint alleges substantially the same matters claimed by the plaintiff in the FEPC proceedings. The defendants include the University, the members of the Board of Trustees, President Corbally, Chancellor Riddle, former Chancellor Cheston, Dean Hadley, Professor Levine, Superintendent of Education Cronin, and Etta J. Cole, the hearing officer of the FEPC. The complaint alleges that actions of the University, its Trustees, and employees have violated Title VII of the Federal Civil Rights Act, the plaintiff's constitutional rights, the Thirteenth Amendment, the Federal Equal Pay Act, and also constitute age discrimination. The complaint seeks injunctive relief, damages, costs, and attorneys' fees. It is anticipated that the University employees who are named as defendants will request the University to provide representation for them in the defense of the suit, on the ground that all actions alleged to have been taken by them in the matter were taken in their respective capacities as University employees. The University Counsel 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 and to provide representation of the individual Trustees and University employees who so request. I concur. The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Conlon, Mr. Summers, Mr. Szegho; no, none. On motion of Mr. Howard, this recommendation was approved by the following vote: Aye, Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Howard, Mr. Lenz, Mr. Livingston, Mr. Neal, Mrs. Rader, Mrs. Shepherd, Mr. Velasquez; no, none; absent, Governor Walker.
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