November 2, 2001
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal of Professor Suspended for Crude Language
The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand a federal appeals-court decision that allowed Macomb Community College to suspend an English professor who used crude language in the classroom. The professor, John C. Bonnell, called the court's action a defeat for free speech, but the Michigan college said it was a triumph for efforts to maintain an environment conducive to learning.
Mr. Bonnell was suspended for three days in February 1999 after a student complained that his frequent use of
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