UGA fights sexual harassment court order

The University of Georgia is fighting a federal judge's recommendation that a former journalism dean be cleared of sexual harassment charges. UGA attorneys said in a court filing this week that John Soloski violated the university's anti-harassment policy in 2005. Soloski has admitted he made comments at two off-campus events about the appearance of a subordinate employee, Janet Jones Kendall. U.S. Magistrate C. Christopher Hagy issued a Nov. 26 opinion that UGA's probe into the harassment allegations against Soloski were "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable." Soloski resigned from the deanship at the College of Journalism in 2005 after Kendall alleged he harassed her. He sued the university in 2006, saying UGA President Michael Adams used the harassment allegation to settle a long-standing grudge and force him to resign.

(Associated Press)