NYU pays major settlement in racial discrimination suit

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By Julie Cannold, CNN
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August 17, 2011 1:14 p.m. EDT

New York (CNN) -- New York University will pay $210,000 to settle a harassment lawsuit after an employee was subjected to racial slurs and insults, according to a statement from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
According to the EEOC, the supervisor of the mailroom at NYU's Bobst Library repeatedly referred to an African employee as a "monkey" and "gorilla," lodged insults such as "do you want a banana?" and "go back to your cage," and referred to the employees accented English as "gibberish."

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