Columbia noose update: Professor’s files subpoenaed
The NYPost’s Murray Weiss has the scoop and it won’t surprise you if you’ve been following my coverage (hat tip - reader Danny):
A Manhattan grand jury has subpoenaed the university records of the controversial black Columbia Teachers College professor who found a noose hanging from her office door - signaling that the investigation is broadening to examine possible links between the teacher, her closest friends and the racially charged incident, The Post has learned.
According to sources, the subpoenas obtained recently by the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force and prosecutors demanded the college hand over a laundry list of records pertaining to embattled professor Madonna Constantine, whose colleague found a 4-foot hangman’s noose on her office doorknob last October.
The incident happened at the height of the school’s probe of plagiarism charges against her.
Last month, Teachers College announced that Constantine was responsible for two dozen incidents of stealing the work of a faculty member and two students under her tutelage, including lifting passages from their dissertations and hijacking their ideas. Constantine has denied the charge.
In addition to the plagiarism report, investigators want to examine all the information gleaned during the university’s probe and by a law firm and private investigator hired by the school to investigate the plagiarism allegations.
They also want Constantine’s financial contract with the school - which would include her salary, benefits and pension - and any other administrative personnel and academic records.
Sources said the records would provide investigators with a timeline on the tightly guarded 18-month plagiarism probe and what Constantine - one of only two tenured black Teachers College professors - stood to possibly lose if she were found guilty and her job were threatened.
The revelation that Constantine had been under university review provides a possible motive for a sympathetic friend to consider placing a noose on her door - thinking it could whip up support for her, sources said.
You don’t say.
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Ah, duhversity come home to roost. Again.
Sounds like typical black people
Weren’t there cameras involved in this hoax or was that another “noose”
incidenthoax?ditto: typical black people
Live by the sword you die by sword.
If yu live by being a fraud and cheat, well, it’s looks as if that will be her downfall.
Thank goodness for security cameras if she did this to herself. But you know whites are racists anyway and it was just a matter of time before old whitey would have put a noose on her door so she was just helping old cracker out./sarc off
What’s good for the noose, is good for the gander.
Are these types this stupid to think nobody will catch on ? Or do they think we’re too stupid ?
How can you tell if a Columbia professor’s not tellling the trueth ? Her lips are moving.
Isn’t it strange…how if a Student was found to have plagerized just once..that student would have been Immediately expelled or at least would have been Failed that course and reprimanded harshly.
University Faculty seem have a different standard and are exempt from their own rules, and the basic rules of decorum. (See “Insane-Ward” Churchill).
Looks like somebody’s chickens are finally coming home to roost. When in doubt use the race/victim card.
Where does a southern white boy get one of them?
People, People — She is OWED!
Of course - it’s called tenure.
Sounds like the type of bigotry that blacks attribute to “typical white people”.
OJ was caught litteraly with blood on his socks and is innocent.
How can we expect this scum to be guilty of anything? Afterall, the “typical white people” have kept her in bondage since her first breath of American air.
Ahh the “chickens have come home to roost” hattip to Rev. Wright….hehehe!
They could have video of Constantine sneaking in at night and hanging th enoose, smiling for the camera — and she would STILL DENY DOING IT! Such is the Tawana Brawley-esque brazenness of certain people entrusted with an unswerving belief in their own enttilement…..
LOL. unreal. this fool teaches others…that’s the true crime.
not only teaches, but was sanctioned by her ‘peers’ and granted tenure.
is Columbia not embarrassed?
Last month, Teachers College announced that Constantine was responsible for two dozen incidents of stealing the work of a faculty member and two students under her tutelage, including lifting passages from their dissertations and hijacking their ideas….
“Highjacking” is very strong verbage, I don’t see anyone being able to twist it into something racial. Are people conditioned today to a knee jerk behavior? Does someone teach this if your a minority, you can always play victim? It isn’t a genious move at the best it buys the person time.
There was an old book called the Peter Principle, seems to me it fits the situation better, What happens when a person rises -gets promoted, past the point of their competency? I speaking of Merit.
She won’t get anything,the president of Texas Southern in Houston,Ms Slade,got 10 years probation last week.All she did was (use)$500,000 for a lavish lifestyle and home,with a (sleigh bed)whatever that is.A black female in a power position,no way is there going to be any real punishment.
The wheels of justice are turning slowly in this case. But at least they are turning.
How about they make her stand in front of the gate at Columbia wearing a sandwich board that says “I stole ideas from my students and fellow faculty members and plagiarized them for my own self-aggrandizement…(and all I got was this lousy sandwich borad)
WTH? Is there some sarcastic context I am missing? Some subtle irony?
I just read that according to US Govt. stats, on average there are 68 people injured or killed worldwide each day by terrorism. For that, we have a multi-billion-dollar War On Terror.
On average there are four people injured or killed in the Middle-East each day in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. For that, we pay over $ FIVE BILLION/ year just in foreign-aid to those two nations.
On average there are over 1100 white people injured in the USA alone, EACH DAY, by black people. Including OVER ONE HUNDRED RAPES of white women by black men EVERY SINGLE DAY! (thats 36,000/year).
I can’t help but notice that 68 victims of terror per day, worldwide justify a war. 4 Palestinians or Jews injured or killed per day is also “something to be addressed.” But 1100 whites, specifically targeted by blacks each day in America is NOT something to be concerned with!
But RACISM IS! ? ? ?
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She not only teaches others, look at where she teaches: Columbia Teachers College. She teaches the people entrusted with the education of the next generation.
Just another reason to homeschool…
I think they are taking a jab at Obama’s “typical white person” comment regarding his grandmother.
At least I hope.
I don’t disagree that the greatly disproportional violent crime rate among blacks, illegal immigrants and some other groups is of grave concern, and even more troubling because the farcical constraints of PC prevent an honest public discussion of the problem (if Barack were truly brave he would have opened this dialogue in his now (in)famous “race speech” instead of the babbling he did).
However, those disproportional violent crime statistics do not in any way support an argument that plagiarism, faked hate crimes or other things this women is being accused of or investigated for are the behaviors of a “typical black person”. This is not in any way an issue of the color of her skin, but rather the content of her character. And I say that as a strong, white man.
Ah, that would make sense. Context is often lost on the internet where sarcasm is difficult to convey. Now I feel dumb for having missed the meaning.
Perfect VP candidate for either Hill or Hussein.
Let me know if you find a source for them, Soap. I’ve been trying to find one for years, so I could have an easy out, if I needed one.
I’ll bet the Duke lacrosse team gets blamed for the noose.
Yes deepdiver it is ok to say “typical black person”. If B Hussein Obama can say it and not be pounded for it until he is out of the race, then it most certainly is ok to paint any black/white/hispanic/asian/other as a typical______ person.
No sarcasm needed, Barry wasn’t being sarcastic, he’s just an honest politician.
I still don’t understand how a NYPD spokesperson was able to claim that Madonna Constantine was “definitely a victim” just 2-3 days into the investigation.
I think we have all learned that an investigation can change too dramatically to be able to make such a certain statement just 2-3 days into the process.
Why should I have to explain what I mean when a man of such all knowing all fixing all loving doesn’t.
I missed the reference to his speech- didn’t click. Sorry.
…..Do you think the records being subpoenaed will be as difficult to find as those of Hillary at the Rose Law Firm?
Deepdiver, I’m glad you’re up to speed on the sarcasm now. I myself tend to be very sarcastic and don’t usually like to spell out that I am being sarcastic. That is one of the pleasures with that type of humor. Sometimes I fear the libs trolling this site will not get it and take out of context as they so well do. Using it as proof that we are the bigots after all. Oh well.
traveler49: I appreciate sarcasm and now that I am on the right page, your comment. Just didn’t click with me as I haven’t been much following politics lately due to other obligations. Once I was pointed in the correct direction I remembered his comment.
The libs trolling the site with take our comments our of context regardless and they need no proof that we are bigots as they just kkknnnoooowwww.
Michelle, are you up and about?
This woman got fired.
I didn’t think Columbia had it in them.