November 6, 1998

To whom it may concern; (Rose Bellanca);

This is a letter of formal complaint against Professor John Bonnell. I am
currently a student in Mr. Bonnell's class, English (deleted). My complaint
against Mr. Bonnell is sexual harassment. Due to the fact that this is a
very serious charge, I will substantiate this charge in an oral interview.

Beginning in middle to late September the atmosphere of the class started to
change from comfortable to extremely offensive. Mr. Bonnell began using lude
and obscene comments. These comments stemmed from English stories that we
were reading in class, and he decided to add his own personal comments.
These comments were dehumanizing, degrading, and sexually explicit. Some of
the stories that were required reading revealed sexual innuendoes and
implications. This should have been dealt with in a professional and
appropriate manner, yet Mr. Bonnell displayed a lack of maturity,
sensitivity and responsibility, by taking advantage of the conversations to
express his own previous sexual experiences. If this class had been a
psychology or human sexuality class, I might have understood more of why sex
was the major content of our class. This was supposed to be an English class
and I feel cheated out of my money because I paid tuition to learn English.
I did not pay to hear about Mr. Bonnell's sexual escapades. I feel that he
also used his teacher position as a platform for authority to intimidate his
students not to complain about him. Mr. Bonnell repeatedly made fun of
students who had expressed offense or disgust and he also laughed at them.
This is one of the reasons why I did not come forward sooner. I feel
compelled to speak up now so as to save further embarrassment to Macomb
Community College. I, as a student, and as a wife have been strongly
affected mentally and emotionally due to the sexual harassment from Mr.
Bonnell. My husband and I are fully prepared to take this sexual harassment
complaint to the highest level of authority it can go.

My goals of filing this complaint is to, at the very least, receive credit
for English (delete) and a written apology from Mr. Bonnell. I would also
like Mr. Bonnell to be dismissed from the college immediately. Mr. Bonnell
also needs to go to a counselor to discuss his sexual problems. I would also
like Mr. Bonnell to be denied all access to my and my husbands social
security numbers, student accounts, address, and telephone numbers. I expect
and demand that this sexual harassment be taken seriously and given top
priority. Thank you for acting immediately and swiftly in this matter.

Sincerely,
(deleted)

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