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MALE SLUSH FUND. The California Supreme court denied to hear an appeal on a sex discrimination lawsuit, supporting the claim by former clinical psychiatry professor at UCLA. Janet Conney, who worked at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, was awarded nearly $3 million in 2004 for her allegations that male colleagues made disparaging comments about her appearance and the department discriminated against her for promotions and pay raises because of her gender. Additionally, court documents show that the department directly funded the salaries of men, but women were required to earn their salaries through seeing patients. This all happened as recently as 2001.
Conney left academia and maintains a private practice in LA. The American Association of University Women, who provided funding to help Conney's cause, maintain that herAncient human remains were found by two students on a river bank in Kennewick, Washington in 1996, leading to the skeleton’s nickname: Kennewick Man. The remains are roughly 9,000 years old, and it is one of the most complete skeletons ever recovered for its age. Kennewick Man is currently housed at the Burke Museum in Washington and access to the remains is controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Preliminary genetic analysis has revealed that he was likely a Native American, but the matter is far from settled.

Determining the ethnicity of Kennewick Man is extremely important, as ownership of the remains has been a fierce legal battle since its discovery. Regional Native American tribes view Kennewick Man as a revered ancestor. If he was, the Native American