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Question: King was hired by the University of Minnesota as a full, tenured professor in 1990. He was appointed to the Afro-American Studies Department and later became chairman. Four years later, he was asked to step down as chairman. The university alleged it had received many complaints from King's students and colleagues concerning poor teaching, absence from class, low enrollment, and undocumented research. Consequently, the university repeatedly denied King salary increases and ultimately approved a 9-2 vote in his department to fire him, pursuant to the complex procedures in the school's tenure code. Assuming that King was guilty as charged, what arguments, if any, remain available to him if he tries to challenge his dismissal on the basis of race discrimination? See King v. University of Minnesota [774 F.2d. 224 (8th Cir. 1985), cert. denied, 475 U.S. 1095 (1986)].