Joel Gardner is a pretty average college student. He's majoring in philosophy at American University in D.C., and he likes to travel. One day he hopes to have a "service job," perhaps advocating on behalf of liberal political issues.

Last April, as you might have heard, he decided to moon Karl 'Turd Blossom' Rove during a College Republican-sponsored event at American. Immediately after the incident, he found himself in trouble with his school and was forced to perform 40 hours of community service.

Not such a bad punishment for baring one's derrière to one of the most notorious members of the Bush Administration, Gardner thought, but then in September he was informed that the Secret Service had issued a warrant for his arrest. On Labor Day, Gardner turned himself in, waited 8 hours in a D.C. jail, and posted a $100 bond before being released.

His fleshy free speech ordeal might be behind him, but Gardner tells Radar that for people closest to him, it's still a pain in the butt.

"A mom is always worried about a record—my hope is that since this is not a conviction but an arrest we can move forward," Marilyn Gardner, Joel's mother, tells Radar. "My hope is that Joel's brilliant mind—he really is bright—will serve him well and that a decent employer will see past this ... or be Web illiterate."

Despite plenty of hard feelings toward Republicans, Marilyn also hopes desperately that Joel never pulls this sort of stunt again. She'd like him to always "use his mind and not his bottom."

But Brian Ko, a former high school classmate of Joel's, is not so sure his mom will get her wish. He says he would suspects such an incident involving Joel will happen again, and talking to Joel definitely confirms those suspicions. "I have not mooned any public official since Rove," Gardner told Radar. "I would like to moon [French President Nicolas] Sarkozy, though."