John Gechter, 22, a molecular biology senior, is suspended from Grove City College, about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh, for one year.

Gechter said he now intends to transfer to another school to complete the number of credits he needs to graduate. He said he hopes to use the credits to return to Grove City College and graduate next year.

A spokesperson for the college would confirm only that Gechter has withdrawn. 

He has not indicated where he intends to complete his studies and says he is still considering a lawsuit against the college.

Gechter earlier this week said he appeared in the online porn because he needed the money to pay his tuition and that he was suspended because of “my occupation. I was not doing anything illegal.”

The college said he was suspended because he “exhibited behavior contrary to the values” of the college.

He began is outside career when he was a sophomore, appearing in about 15 gay porn scenes under the screen name Vincent DeSalvo.

In an interview with The Allied News, he said his secret was discovered by another student who had been surfing the internet.  That student, according to Gechter, then emailed photos of a naked Gechter to other students.

Within hours, almost everyone on the campus had received the email. The following day the pictures came to the attention of college officials.

The non-denominational college says on its website “The ethical absolutes of the Ten Commandments and Christ’s moral teachings guide the effort to develop intellect and character in the classroom, chapel, and cocurricular activities.”

In 2003, the Princeton Review listing of colleges across the country listed Grove City College as the least gay-friendly campus in the country.

The Review polls students yearly on a variety of issues from professors to food to financial aid. This year 120,000 students across the country took part in the survey.

Founded in 1880, Emerson College is the only institution of higher learning in America that only specializes in the communication arts, offering majors in areas such as journalism, acting and speech therapy.

It has over 3,000 students on its campus in downtown Boston and is building a satellite campus in Hollywood.

Its graduates include Max Muchnick, the openly gay creator and executive producer of Will & Grace, whose grant built a college campus center,  and Rob Sands, the creator and former executive editor of 365gay.com, who established a scholarship for LGBT students at the school.

The Princeton Review rated Middlebury College in Vermont as having the best professors.  The tastiest campus food is at Wheaton College in Illinois, and the best dorms are at Loyola College in Maryland.  The students happiest with their financial aid attend Princeton University, which also tops the list for the most beautiful campus.

“In our opinion, each school in this book is first-rate academically,” said Robert Franek, the author at The Princeton Review in a statement.  “But their campus cultures and offerings differ greatly.”

The survey also found that the most conservative students are at Texas A&M University and the most liberal are at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

The 62 ranking lists are based on surveys of 120,000 students – an average of 325 per campus at the 368 schools in the book. The 80-question survey asked students about their school’s academics, administration, campus life, student body and themselves. 

The Princeton Review is not affiliated with Princeton University.

The complaint alleges that San Diego Mesa College fired Lorri Sulpizio, the former Head Coach of the women’s basketball team, and Cathy Bass, the former Director of Basketball Operations, despite their demonstrated track record of success.

Mesa officials fired both coaches at the end of the 2007 academic year after they spoke out publicly against  unequal treatment in a local paper which identified them as domestic partners.

“While at Mesa, we put the welfare of student-athletes first. We coached outstanding student-athletes to success on the courts and in the classrooms,” said Sulpizio.

“We should have been able to advocate for equal treatment of women athletes and faculty without retaliation. Instead, Mesa fired us both for raising issues of unequal treatment,” she said.

The complaint alleges that Mesa officials retaliated against Sulpizio and Bass for repeatedly raising concerns about unequal treatment of female athletes and faculty, as well as discriminating against them and ultimately firing them based on their gender and sexual orientation. The NCLR says that the school violated numerous federal and state laws, as well as the California constitution.

Sulpizio and Bass are seeking mandatory training for all athletic department faculty on the prevention of gender and sexual orientation discrimination. They also want Mesa’s Athletic Department to comply with Title IX, as well as compensatory and punitive damages.

“Coach Sulpizio and Coach Bass should have been able to continue coaching and running an excellent college basketball program at Mesa,” said NCLR sports project Director Helen Carroll.

“By firing these two coaches, Mesa is depriving their student-athletes of dedicated coaches who serve as outstanding role models in a sports world with fewer and fewer female coaches,” she said.

Sulpizio served as head coach of the Mesa women’s basketball team from 2002-2007, after spending four years in other coaching positions. She regularly led the team to championship play at tournaments, and secured high-level finishes in Pacific Coast Conference Championship tournaments in several seasons.

The Mesa women’s basketball team won first place in the 2001-2002 season and third place in both the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons.

Bass began working at Mesa as assistant coach to the women’s basketball team in 1999, and was appointed as an adjunct faculty member and made Director of Basketball Operations for the team in 2006.

Sulpizio and Bass are registered domestic partners in the State of California, and together they have three children.