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Public College Student Fined For F-Bomb Dropped After Class

By John Mesirow

Can you just imagine how much money a college could take in if it could collect $25 from students for public cursing (and $50 for a second offense)? My guess is ... a lot. And yes, there really is a college that has such a policy on the books. That school is Hinds Community College in Mississippi. The fines can be doled out for "public profanity, cursing and vulgarity" as reported at www.insidehighered.com. Here's the skinny on the alleged f-bomber:

And the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has taken up the case of a student who faced charges following an incident in which -- after class, but in the presence of an instructor -- he said that a grade he had just received was "going to fuck up my entire G.P.A." The instructor first threatened to place the student in detention and when the student pointed out (correctly) that the college doesn't have detention, the "flagrant disrespect" charges were made.

Detention? Hilarious. Why not a "time out" for the young man? Regular Juice readers know that this policy is going down. See, there's this document out there called the Constitution (note to school: See Amendment 1). You can read more - a lot - here.

Full post as published by Legal Juice on May 21, 2010 (boomark / email).