Posted on 10/11/2007 12:59:57 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
Madonna Constantine, the Columbia University professor who found a noose on her office door Tuesday morning, said she felt not only angry but embarrassed when she saw the noose.
"I know I don't really have a reason to be embarrassed about it because this was the work of someone who, you know, is not a secure person at some level, but it felt as though it was directed toward me," Constantine said in an exclusive interview today on "Good Morning America."
"It felt very personal and very degrading," she said.
New York police are treating the incident as a hate crime. They are also investigating whether the noose, first discovered by one of Constantine's colleagues, may have been placed by an angry student or another faculty member as part of an ongoing dispute with Constantine.
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Maybe Imanutjob left it.
It’s as real as the black churches Clinton saw burned down.
Of course they are, was there any doubt?
” I’m thinking 3-1 in favor of hoax.”
6-1!!
“New York police are treating the incident as a hate crime.
Of course they are, was there any doubt?”
Area lawyers orgasm over the possibilities...
I’m betting she put it there herself. Columbia refuses to release the security tape which could identify the party responsible.
I’m betting she put it there herself. Columbia refuses to release the security tape which could identify the party responsible.
50-50. Either way this is gonna turn into a media circus then the culprit will either be part of a hoax or some un attackable person. Like a gay-hispanic student. Then just blame white people and call it a day.
I think its a hoax but the damage is already done and if proven a hoax the story will be buried.
Multiculturalism is enough to drive any sane person out the window....the lady protests too much and.....anything can and does happen at Columbia.
Probably. But hopefully any ambitious prosecutors will have learned something from the Duke fiasco, and think twice before trying to make something of it.
Given the lack of integrity and professionalism of both Columbia and their faculty, I vote with fraud. Quite simply, I don’t believe any of it, period.
I hate to say this, but the very first thing that came to mind was that, yes, this is a hoax. I’ve seen too many of them in the 51 years I’ve been granted life. Maybe it isn’t. But it’s a little too convenient for a noose to show up on the door of this Columbia prof following the issues in Jena, La., and the visit from Ahmadinajad. (Serial killers are like this, too - they sometimes strike when public attention is called away by a serious news event, like when the Boston Strangler killed someone the same weekend as Kennedy’s assassination.)
I’m with you - I say odds are 3-1 in favor of hoax.
Link to Columbia student newpaper articles and comments section. More info.
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/node/27358#comments
it felt as though it was directed toward me
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Ya think?
“Madonna Constantine”
Is that Italian?
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