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Professor Fired For Gossip Must Sign Gag Order To Get Job Back

Ashe Schow

Tenured music professor Ken Peterson was fired from Dixie State University (DSU) for telling a colleague that the chair of the theater department and the president of the university allegedly conspired to fire another professor.

The College Fix reports that Peterson’s termination notice claimed he had an “unauthorized conversation” with a colleague that others “overheard,” and that he “slandered” DSU president Richard Williams and theater department chair Mark House by “loudly saying in a public place” that they had “conspired” to fire a professor.

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