The Nation - News from Feb. 24, 1985

A university president who is an authority on racial discrimination is being sued for sexual harassment by two women employees of Minnesota’s Human Rights Department. Robert L. Green, president of the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, was named in a suit filed in St. Paul, Minn., by Colleen Broten, a clerk in the department, and Karron Holmes, a staff aide. The department had hired Green, a former aide to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to give a speech on Dec. 5. Broten and Holmes said they were sent separately to Green’s hotel room to escort him to various functions. The suit charges that he “sexually harassed” both women. A spokesman for the university denied the allegations.