This story comes to us via 7 Action News in Rochester, Michigan.
An Oakland University writing student was recently suspended from the college for writing an essay titled "Hot For Teacher." The essay was deemed inappropriate by his professor, who was neither flattered nor amused by the student's assignment.
Oh, and did I mention the student was 56 and married?
“The fact is she’s an attractive woman. I see lots of attractive women that I don’t hit on, but I wrote about it,” said Joseph Corlett, the Advanced Critical Writing student in question, who insists his wife was even okay with the wording of the essay.
Corlett plans to appeal his year-long suspension, and will presumably not be writing the follow-up essay titled "Drop Dead Legs" anytime soon.
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Josh Hart is a former web producer and staff writer for Guitar World and Guitar Aficionado magazines (2010–2012). He has since pursued writing fiction under various pseudonyms while exploring the technical underpinnings of journalism, now serving as a senior software engineer for The Seattle Times.
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