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    200 professors demand USC president step down; trustees express 'full confidence' in him

    by WRITETHRU (EDITORS: Updates, adds Nikias reaction.), Los Angeles Times May 22, 2018 5 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Two hundred University of Southern California professors on Tuesday demanded the resignation of university President C.L. Max Nikias, saying he had "lost the moral authority to lead" in the wake of revelations that a campus gynecologist was kept on staff for decades despite repeated complaints of misconduct.

    In a letter to USC's Board of Trustees, the faculty members wrote that they had come together to "express our outrage and disappointment over the mounting evidence of President Nikias' failure to protect our students, our staff, and our colleagues from repeated and pervasive sexual harassment and misconduct."

    "We call upon President Nikias to step aside, and upon the Board of Trustees to restore moral leadership to the university," they wrote.

    About an hour after the faculty members sent the letter, board Chairman John Mork released a statement saying

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