Missouri Southern to resume intern program at state Capitol

(AP) — Missouri Southern State University plans to resume sending legislative interns to the state Capitol after withdrawing them during the 2015 session amid allegations that some interns were being sexually harassed.

University officials have never said exactly why they withdrew the school's four interns.

[...] House Speaker John Diehl resigned for exchanging sexually explicit texts with an intern and Sen. Paul LeVota resigned amid allegations that he sexually harassed interns, one of whom was from Central Missouri State, which he denied.

Richard Miller, dean of MSSU's School of Arts & Sciences, said the university always intended to reinstate the intern program but wanted to emphasize to its interns that they were there to learn.