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Not everyone was satisfied with University of Iowa President Sally Mason’s firing of former vice president of general counsel Marcus Mills, including Political Science Professor Michael Lewis-Beck, who will meet with Mason today and deliver nearly 200 signatures, which includes several distinguished faculty members, the Iowa City Press-Citizen reported.
Mills will joined by Catherine Ringen, a professor and Linguistics Department chairwoman, and Tom Southard, a professor and head of the Orthodontics Department, as they make the case for Mills.
“We hope we have a free and frank discussion of the issue,” Lewis-Beck, who spearheaded the petition, told the Press-Citizen. “We want to make her more aware of how important this decision is and how important it is for it to be reconsidered and ultimately he be reinstated.”
Lewis-Beck began circulating the petition among UI faculty last month a few days after Mills’ termination Sept. 23 following the release of the Stolar report, an independent investigation which implicated Mills for his role in the handling an on-campus sexual assault case involving two former UI football players in Oct. 2007.
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