YOU LEARNED ABOUT THE PLIGHT OF MACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROFESSOR JOHN BONNELL FROM NEWS ACCOUNTS, BUT BONNELL GOT INTO THE TROUBLE HE'S IN BY WORD OF MOUTH. AN ENGLISH PROFESSOR FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS AT MACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE, BONNELL IS KNOWN TO USE PROFANITY WHILE TEACHING. HE CALLS IT VERNACULAR, WHICH IT CERTAINLY IS. HE ALSO CALLS IT THE LANGUAGE OF HIS STUDENTS, WHICH IN MANY CASES IT NO DOUBT IS. HE WILL BEGIN A THREE-DAY
SUSPENSION MONDAY, LOSE $1,000 IN PAY AND, HE SUSPECTS, MAY LOSE HIS JOB BECAUSE A MARRIED FEMALE STUDENT OF HIS
COMPLAINED ABOUT HIS LANGUAGE. PRESUMABLY, THAT MARRIED STUDENT, WHO HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIED, IS AN ADULT. SHE IS ATTENDING COLLEGE, A PLACE WHERE IDEAS AND LANGUAGE ARE SUPPOSED TO CHALLENGE, EXCITE, INFORM AND EVEN OFFEND,
ALL IN THE INTEREST OF IMPARTING AND INCREASING KNOWLEDGE. PUNISHING THIS PROFESSOR FOR VULGARITY IS OUTRAGEOUS.
IF THE COMPLAINING STUDENT, AND OFFICIALS AT MACOMB COMMUNITY COLLEGE, DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT, WE THINK THEY DON'T BELONG IN COLLEGE.

Allan Frank, WDIV welcomes your response.