After learning that their student fees were used to pay $250,000 of the $600,000 retaliation settlement to former provost Lisa Vollendorf, who relayed sexual harassment complaints about President Judy Sakaki’s husband, the campus community flew into action last week with angry campus protests.

Sonoma State University sent out an email to the campus community on April, 25 announcing that $250,000 of SSU funds would be used to pay the insurance deductible for former provost Lisa Vollendorf’s $600,000 retaliation settlement.