March 28, 2003

Citrus College Suspends Instructor Accused of Giving Credit for Antiwar Letters

By LAWRENCE BIEMILLER

Citrus College has put a part-time instructor on administrative leave after students said she had offered them extra credit for writing and sending letters to President Bush that opposed going to war with Iraq.

Officials of the community college, near Los Angeles, said a dean had met with students in the class, who said they "were clear in their understanding that they would only receive credit if they wrote 'protest' letters."

But the instructor, Rosalyn Kahn, said in a

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