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Some people can't take a joke, and it cost Pikes Peak Community College dearly to learn to appreciate parody.
The story began when Luis Chavez, a member of the school's faculty association, created a mock proposal for a program called "Gringo American Studies." When the school disciplined and suspended him for his parody, Katherine S. Sturdevant testified that it was a legitimate political satire at his successful appeal in 1997.
She sued the school, its president and dean in federal court in May 1998 for direct retaliation against her for testifying. Her lawsuit claimed the school removed her as chair of the history department, transferred her office from the new to the old campus, removed her from committees, denied her merit increases and gave her a negative evaluation after 12 years of positive performance reviews.
Sturdevant also claimed the college was unhappy ...