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- Gregory F. Sullivan, a tenured humanities professor at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, could lose his job over a joke he made about the Aurora shootings.
- 12 people were killed and 58 were injured at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado last month.
- While the joke was widely considered to be distasteful, the decision on whether to fire Sullivan is garnering controversy.
From the article:
The joke may have been stupid and callous. But was it a firing offense?
That is a key question underlying a controversy at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, where Gregory F. Sullivan could lose his tenured position as an assistant professor of humanities because of a joking reference to the mass shooting in a Colorado movie theater last month, in which 12 people died and 58 were injured. ...