The University of Southern Maine has paid an undisclosed sum to settle a grievance filed by a professor who said the university injured his reputation by the way it handled an accusation that he made racist remarks in a lecture. In addition, USM Provost Joseph Wood sent John Broida, a tenured psychology professor, a written apology for denigrating remarks Wood made publicly last spring about Broida's statements regarding the differing IQ's of blacks and whites. "I apologize if my opinion about the statements drawn from your videotaped lecture offended you personally," Wood wrote to Broida. "It was not my intention...
