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Another Noose Set Loose at Columbia!
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John Del Signore
Published Apr 2, 2009
Modified Apr 2, 2009
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Did Morningside Heights relocate below the Mason-Dixon line or something? Yet another noose has surfaced at Columbia Teachers College, where a black teacher previously found one hanging on her classroom door in 2007. This time the perpetrator went sent the hate two-dimensionally, in the form of a noose drawing. It was sent to the same professor, Madonna Constantine, but she isn't even at Columbia anymore, having been fired last year amid unrelated allegations of plagiarism. But the hate doesn't stop there! Three other 8x12-inch envelopes containing drawings of swastikas were sent to Jewish professors, so they wouldn't feel left out. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has assigned the investigation to the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force, and Teachers College President Susan Fuhrman sent an e-mail to students and faculty urging everyone to cooperate in the probe. Columbia's student-run blog has that e-mail, and notes that the 2007 noose culprit is still at large.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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