Professor to sue class

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HANOVER, N.H. (UPI) — An angry former professor at Dartmouth College announced plans to sue her students because, she claims, they were rude to her during a lesson.

Priya Venkatesan said she is "horrified" with the way her class behaved and plans to sue her ex-students for harassment and discrimination, the New York Post reported.

"I was facing intolerance of ideas and intolerance of freedom of expression. It was almost an incessant barrage of hostility, nastiness and anti-intellectualism," she said of the Feb. 1 incident.

Miss Venkatesan sent an e-mail Saturday informing her former students she plans to take them to court in response to their behavior.

"The feeling that I am getting from the outside world is that Dartmouth is considered a bigoted place, so this may not be news and I may be successful in this lawsuit," the 1990 Dartmouth grad said in the e-mail.

Miss Venkatesan resigned from Dartmouth in March and has begun instructing at Pasadena City College in California, the report said.

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