3 E. Michigan Administrators Forced Out

Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents Chairman Thomas Sidlik, left, and regent James Stapleton leave a news conference after a special board meeting in Ypsilanti, Mich., Monday, July 16, 2007. Three Eastern Michigan University administrators, including President John Fallon, have been forced out of their jobs, months after top school officials were accused of covering up the rape and slaying of a student by publicly ruling out foul play. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) (Paul Sancya - AP)

Fallon has 60 days to leave the property, board members said.

Fallon's salary was $225,000 a year. His contract was to run until July 2010, according to university spokesman Ward Mullens. According to the terms of Fallon's contract, he would be paid the equivalent of one year's base salary if the board fired him.

Vick, who has been on paid administrative leave since March, told the News: "My first choice was to come back. But you don't always get your first choice."

The board appointed Provost Donald Loppnow as executive vice president. In that dual role, Loppnow will serve as the school's chief executive until an interim president is selected.

Robert Dickinson, the slain woman's father, said anybody implicated in the federal report "should probably expect the same" fate as Fallon.

"I fire my baristas if they do wrong," said Dickinson, who owns a coffee house in the western Michigan community of Hastings. "The board of this school should do whatever they need to do."

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Associated Press writers David Runk in Detroit and Tim Martin in Lansing contributed to this report.

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