You can’t really chalk it up to sticks and stones when someone in authority does something like this.
Bull crap. These are all adults here, it's a college. It may be the way things are now, but I don't care who you are, if you don't stand up for yourself against anyone who call you a name and have to make a federal case about it, you are a bedwetter. Although it's a sad statement on the state of society today.
adults or not
it’d be the same in a workplace