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7/22/13

The Dung Beetle Award goes to...

The Academy of Dung Beetles' Award is being rolled towards David Kutzler, nursing program director at Pima Community College where a student has filed a lawsuit claiming that she was illegally suspended after she complained that her classmates were speaking in Spanish and orally translating English to Spanish so excessively that she was failing to learn.  The student, Terri Bennett, formally requested a rule limiting classroom discussion to English. Nursing program director David Kutzler allegedly responded by called her a “bigot and a bitch.” Kutzler allegedly charged that Bennett was “discriminating against Mexican-Americans” and threatened to report her complaint as a violation of the school’s policies against discriminatory behavior and harassment.  [ECS]  Read more: