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Such an instance lead to a libel lawsuit at Virginia Tech in 1996 when the student paper left "director of butt licking" as the title for an administrator in a pulled quote.

Article from '96 on the filing: http://www.splc.org/news/report_detail.asp?id=41&edition=16

Article from '97 when the judge dismissed the case as it was "not defamatory": http://www.splc.org/news/report_detail.asp?id=136&edition=14



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