N.C. State Univ. Successfully Sued Over Sexual Harrassment

It was only a matter of time before women would prevail against the administration of one of our fine universities for failing to do exactly what the Catholic Church failed to do for decades ... act to discipline and fire, if necessary, sexual predators among its faculty.

Two women have won a $300,000 judgment against N.C. State for failing to do anything about a faculty member who was a well known serial harasser of women.

University officials, including former Chancellor Larry Monteith, learned in 1987 that the professor, Shuaib Ahmad, had been accused of sexual harassment. But the university later promoted Ahmad to full professor and made him head of a research laboratory. Where he incidentally was in a position to move in on the two women who just won the judgment. They were research assistants who worked for Ahmad.

For failing to curb Ahmad's appetites, N.C. State is liable.

Top administrators at ASU, we trust, are taking notes. There are courageous women in more places than just Raleigh.