A student from Oakland University was suspended from the institution for penning an essay, which was titled Hot For Teacher, is now in the process of suing the college for over $2.2 million, saying that it violated his rights to freedom of speech and expression.

According to the Clarion Ledger, 57-year-old Joseph Corlett, who now lives in Sarasota, Fla., after moving there from Orion Township, filed a lawsuit on Friday in U.S. District Court in Detroit against Oakland University's Board of Trustees, President Gary Russi and Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Mary Beth Snyder.

"In the end, he just ended up getting suspended from school for completing a homework assignment," his lawyer Alari Adams said shortly after filing the respective lawsuit.

Corlett claims he was unjustifiably kicked out of the school after writing the essay in September 2011 while enrolled in English 380: Advanced Critical Writing, which was taught by Pamela Mitzelfeld.

He says the essay, which was named after the 1984 hit Van Halen song Hot For Teacher, was just a "whimsical exaggeration" of his attraction toward Mitzelfeld.

The site stated that Corlett allegedly had some of the following cursive in the now highly controversial paper:

"Are you kidding me? I should drop right now. There is no way I'll concentrate in class especially with that sexy little mole on her upper lip beckoning with every accented word. And that smile."

"Previous essays he had submitted to her were sexually themed. And in his previous essays, she had given him A's, so he didn't think him writing about his attraction to her warranted him being suspended from school," Adams added.

Corlett said he penned the essay after Mitzelfeld assured him that no topics were off limits and claimed that she wanted "the raw stuff," according to the lawsuit.

As of Friday, Mitzelfeld was listed on the Oakland University website as a special lecturer and associate director of the institution's writing center.

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