For weeks, officials at Spring Arbor University have hoped the story about a fired transgender professor who filed a discrimination claim would go away.

Last month, the administration took matters into their own hands, removing from racks about 500 copies of the Crusader, a university-funded student newspaper. The issue included a story about the university's settlement with Julie Nemecek.

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Five days later, administrators gave the student editor-in-chief the option of getting the papers back -- but only if the Nemecek article was cut out. Rebecca Eve Schweitzer complied, taking the scissors to 75 copies for redistribution. The rest were thrown out voluntarily.

LANSING, Michigan.: A transgender professor who was fired by a Christian university in Michigan has reached a settlement in her discrimination complaint.

Julie Nemecek and Spring Arbor University agreed to the deal Monday after mediation talks with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Terms of the settlement were not released, but Nemecek said Tuesday she will no longer be employed by the school outside Jackson, about 75 miles (121 kilometers) west of Detroit.

"It was a lengthy process and both sides are happy," said Nemecek, a man who recently changed her name from John. "I'm looking for other employment. I may do some consulting work. I'm definitely going to do advocacy for transgender issues. I won't give up that fight."