Incidents at Macomb Community College
Total: 1
Incident 7419
Status:
Resolved
Person:
John C. Bonnell
Role:
Faculty
Position:
Professor
Discipline:
Arts and Humanities
Specific Discipline:
English Writing Humanities
Outcome Year:
1998
Outcome Category:
Suspended / Leave / Restrictions, Official Warning / Reprimand
Quote:
"MacQueen issuing a warning to Plaintiff via a memorandum dated March 4, 1998, entitled “Obscene and vulgar speech,” which states in relevant part:
This memorandum will confirm my verbal warning to you concerning your use of obscene and vulgar language in the classroom․"
"Another meeting was held on December 18, 1998, which led to Demas issuing a memorandum to Plaintiff on January 5, 1999, entitled “Disciplinary suspension,” which informed Plaintiff that he was suspended for three days, commencing February 1, 1999 and ending February 3, 1999. (J.A. at 108.) The memorandum provides as follows:
This memorandum is submitted as a statement of my finding that you used vulgar and obscene language without reference to assigned readings in your English 122 KR class during the fall 1998 term. Specifically, I find:
1. You made it a practice (as announced to the class at the start of the term) to swear in the classroom, using such words as ‘shit,’ ‘damn,’ ‘fuck,’ and ‘ass.’
2. In relating a newspaper account of an act of necrophilia, you said that one doesn't expect to receive a serious ‘butt-fucking’ after being dead for two weeks.
3. In discussing President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky, you said that he received a ‘blow job’ from her. This term was used by you twice.
4. You remarked two or three times that “tits on a nun are as useful as balls on a priest.”"
This memorandum will confirm my verbal warning to you concerning your use of obscene and vulgar language in the classroom․"
"Another meeting was held on December 18, 1998, which led to Demas issuing a memorandum to Plaintiff on January 5, 1999, entitled “Disciplinary suspension,” which informed Plaintiff that he was suspended for three days, commencing February 1, 1999 and ending February 3, 1999. (J.A. at 108.) The memorandum provides as follows:
This memorandum is submitted as a statement of my finding that you used vulgar and obscene language without reference to assigned readings in your English 122 KR class during the fall 1998 term. Specifically, I find:
1. You made it a practice (as announced to the class at the start of the term) to swear in the classroom, using such words as ‘shit,’ ‘damn,’ ‘fuck,’ and ‘ass.’
2. In relating a newspaper account of an act of necrophilia, you said that one doesn't expect to receive a serious ‘butt-fucking’ after being dead for two weeks.
3. In discussing President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky, you said that he received a ‘blow job’ from her. This term was used by you twice.
4. You remarked two or three times that “tits on a nun are as useful as balls on a priest.”"
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