Miscellany

A sex-discrimination lawsuit by a male sportswriter who claimed he was unfairly passed over in favor of a woman for a columnist job at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was reinstated by a federal appeals court. In overruling a federal judge’s dismissal of the suit by Lawrence “Bud” Withers, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the newspaper’s editor and publisher, J.D. Alexander, had acknowledged that Laura Vecsey’s female voice and the “fact that she is female” were factors in the decision to hire her.

The Big Ten has given Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight and university officials until Monday to present their side of the events that led to three technicals and Knight’s ejection in a game against Illinois.