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The Columbia Teachers College professor who was in the news last year when a noose was found on her office door angrily denied she plagiarized others' work. Madonna Constantine, who the Teachers College sanctioned after a year-and-a-half investigation, will appeal the charges.
Constantine, who remains a tenured professor, issued a statement, calling the memo (released to TC faculty) discussing sanctions "premature, vindictive, and mean-spirited," lacking "sensitivity and due process." She wondered "whether a White faculty member would have been treated in such a publicly disrespectful and disparaging manner." You can read the full statement, but here's an excerpt:
Evidence regarding my case will be presented to the Faculty Advisory Committee at Teachers College as soon as my attorneys and I can coordinate my appeal. It is my opinion that this investigation, along with other incidents that have happened to me at Teachers College in recent months, point to a conspiracy and witch-hunt by certain current and former members of the Teachers College community. I believe that nothing that has happened to me this year is coincidental, particularly when I reflect upon the hate crime I experienced last semester involving a noose on my office door. As one of only two tenured Black women full professors at Teachers College, it pains me to conclude that I have been specifically and systematically targeted.Constantine's lawyer added that the investigation was "extremely underhanded" and suggested his client was the one who had been plagiarized. Additionally, he said the noose incident and plagiarism charges were TC's way to force her to leave. Paul Giacomo told Bloomberg News, "There have been attempts from the very top of the administration of Teachers College to intimidate and blackmail Madonna Constantine into leaving the college."
In late 2005, a former TC professor and students brought their complaints to the counseling and clinical psychology department, which was then chaired by Suniya Luthar. Luthar told the Columbia Spectator she informed the dean and handed over documents to TC attorneys in 2006, and in 2007 Constantine "allegedly presented her with a summons threatening legal action for defamation, slander, and libel" (see this Post story) but never followed up and eventually withdrew the complaint after the hate crime.
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why is teachers college acting like some sort of lynch mob?
HOLY SHIT IT'S KEENAN THOMPSON!
Constantine's lawyer ... suggested his client was the one who had been plagiarized.
lol
it's a conspiracy. a C-O-N-spiracy.
Aaaaaahhhhh! It's Gene Parmesan!
Do black people ever actually do anything wrong?
this is boring. let's go back and kick the 5 year old with emotional problems some more whaddyasay !?!
ah great reference, chunk!
and that's why you don't hand noose's in professors' offices!
great idea chuzzlewit, i'm on it!
in the meantime, you can make up more excuses for this professor's behavior.
man, she looks a LOT different than she did when that other photo was taken. Maybe she plagarized that too?
Columbia is racist. The furnace at Manhattanville will be powered by black babies. Columbia developed AIDS in a laboratory to keep the Black man down. Columbia is responsible for the fact that 70% of Black mothers are unwed.
she's cooked.
more excuses? i don't get it.
looks like she ATE keenan thompson
Maybe we should feed her the fat little girl who got handcuffed.
the initial accusations came out in 2005: that is not "premature".
I'm starting to think that she had to plagiarize because doesn't understand what words mean after yesterday's "rush to judgement" pronouncement after a year-long investigation.
Wait, so Columbia's racist against Hutts?
wow, took her all of a day (at most) to play the race card.
Hmmmm...."force her to leave"...hmmmm. That's a good idea!
If she put that noose on her door, I hope they find out. She should never teach anything again.
She is being framed. She threatened to sue McDonalds because they offered double super sized items for the last twenty years without telling her she might get fat.
McDonalds and that company in Florida, I forgot their name, that promised her they were growing diet watermelons.
Sure looks like she tied her own noose.
OK, seriously, the fat-baiting is bullshit. I dislike this woman as much as anyone, but y'all are morons.
"Aaaaaahhhhh! It's Gene Parmesan!"
hahahahahaha my sides hurt
I believe her original papers read something like this before she came up with the idea of ripping off her students:
"Ah, Madonna Constantine, belivesd dat Amerika and all its peoples showld stop beins so damn ignerant. Ah means, dont we all loved Gawd, believed in Gawd and be prayin to his son, Jaysus (who be realy from Africa, not no Italy like the Catholic Church don sayin). Dam Catholic Church! You don see no black priests touchin on dem little boys and feelin aroun dey tiny milk biskits, ya know wha I'm sayin?
Dis is wuh I tell my girlfrends Tickles (Queen Latifah) and JuJiFruit (Starr Jones). My click needs to be edumacated cause I be teachin in Columbia. Werd ups. Ah gets paid every Fryday. Not none of dis first of the month federal sh*t. My paycheck be weeklee bitches. And I gets my afirmitive ackshun, equal opotunity benefits in dere to boot. Die-reck-de-pawsit. Mama likes dem Jimmy Chews."
NEWS UPDATE
*It's been reported that the noose found on Constantine's office door was actually used by Constantine herself every afternoon at an upstate farm where she would lasso a sizable cow to eat back in her office.