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Students decry treatment on Ghana trip
Seattle | May 09, 2008 12:01:13 AM IST
Seventeen students from the University of Washington received insufficient nourishment and housing while on a school visit to Ghana, an investigator said. Linda Iltis, the university employee in charge of the visit, allegedly did not appropriately handle reasonable complaints from students regarding undernourishment, sickness, unnecessary lectures given by a non-governmental group and bullying executed by a university professor, a report released Tuesday said. Complaints regarding the trip, which took place last summer, have prompted an overview of the school's policies for overseas studies programs, spokesman Norm Arkans said. In January, the university awarded the students $2,500 each as compensation for their losses on the trip and covered the medical costs of ill students who received treatment at the school's health center, the Seattle Post-Intelligence reported. Iltis and her husband, Ter Ellingson, claimed the report is seriously flawed, incomplete and full of factual inaccuracies and have initiated a process through the university by which we intend to provide the full story and to clear our names. (UPI)
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