Thumbs Down: To the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for a frustrating â?? and expensive â??end to the fiasco involving a former administrator who had an affair with a student and was accused of sexual harassment. As part of a settlement of racial discrimination claims that the administrator, Paul Barrows, made against UW-Madison, the school will pay him $135,000. In a dispute that lasted more than two years, Barrows was removed from his job as a vice-chancellor, given a leave of absence and then a lower-paying job before he left the university. Along the way, it shined a light on the university system’s sick leave policies and its practice of providing “backup jobs” to administrators who failed at their previous jobs. At least, let’s hope this ends the whole unfortunate saga.
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