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Evergreen College Settles With Professor Bret Weinstein Over Campus Protests

Emily Zanotti

Evergreen State College will pay Professo Bret Weinstein $500,000 for failing to protect him from rampaging student protesters, according to a settlement agreement reached on Friday.

Weinstein and his wife, anthropology professor Heather Heying, who also works for the school, filed the suit over the summer, alleging that Evergreen failed to protect the couple “from repeated provocative and corrosive verbal and written hostility based on race, as well as threats of physical violence,” after Weinstein refused to participate in a planned “Day of Absence” on campus.

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