April Hixson filed suit against Eastern Illinois University, claiming $364.33 in tuition because much of the material covered in an ethnomusicology class she completed bore little resemblance to its course description. While the course was supposed to expose students to Asian, African and South American music, Hixson says professor Doug DiBianco devoted much of the class time to examples of "controversial artistic expression," including images of two men drinking enemas, a man who had supposedly amputated his penis, and Annie Sprinkle's performance art featuring her inserting a tube to display the inside of her vagina. "They're part of my discussion of aesthetics," responded DiBianco. "What are the boundaries of art? Does it always have to be pretty, or can it be raunchy, ugly and disgusting?"

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