March 14, 2003

Seton Hall Adjunct Professor Lashes Out at Students in E-Mail Message

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

After discovering that some of her students had used a public Web site to criticize her teaching abilities, her wardrobe, and other aspects of her appearance, an adjunct professor at Seton Hall University last fall fired off an e-mail message to her students, calling them "brats" and "lying sacks of [excrement]."

University officials quickly sent an apology to students and said that the instructor, Mary Ann Swissler, would not be returning.

Ms. Swissler, a freelance writer and

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