Madonna G. Constantine
Posted on 02/21/2008 5:12:20 AM PST by reaganaut1
A professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College who was propelled into the national spotlight when a noose was found on her office door last fall has been found to have plagiarized the work of a former colleague and two former students, the college has announced.
The college, in statements to the faculty and the news media, said an 18-month investigation into charges against the professor, Madonna G. Constantine, had determined there were “numerous instances in which she used others’ work without attribution in papers she published in academic journals over the past five years.”
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Dr. Constantine, in an e-mail message to faculty and students on Wednesday, called the investigation “biased and flawed,” and said it was part of a “conspiracy and witch hunt by certain current and former members of the Teachers College community.”
“I am left to wonder whether a white faculty member would have been treated in such a publicly disrespectful and disparaging manner,” she wrote.
She added, “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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Universities have sown racial discord and are now reaping the consequences.
When all else fails, Play the race card............
She better hang another noose on her door to deflect the news coverage.
That tactic is going to be used extensively in this coming 08 campaign...
You don’t agree with Hussein Obama on an issue you are a Muslim hating, racist, bigot.
My reaction exactly. I would love to see the NYPD come out and say what they must have known from the start: this joke of a professor hung the noose herself to deflect attention from the investigation of her work.
I wonder if the university already has the "uncomfortable" answer to the noose incident and needs to just "make the problem go away."
Madonna G. Constantine
How convenient that the noose appeared on her door barely two months after she was confronted by the university with details of her alleged plagiarism...
Of course the noose was not coincidental - she arranged for it to be put there (or put it there by herself) in order to make her appear to be a victim, and thereby to deflect punishment for her theft of others' work... I was surprised to see that the NYT actually published a statement by the chairman of her department throwing cold water on Dr. Constantine's racial bias claims by noting that both she and the principal victim of the plagiarism are also 'women of color'.
The NYT article is not directly accusatory, but not really all that subtle either, in its reporting on the incident(s). While the article drew no overt conclusions, you would have to be a real doofus or a committed Democrat (but I repeat myself) to believe Dr. Constantine's stories (that in fact she is the victim of plagiarism rather than being the plagiarist herself, and the victim of racial discrimination, and the victim of nefarious conspiracies and plots and 'witch-hunts', and the victim of a 'hate crime')... The quality of Ph.Ds has really gone downhill since Einstein's era, hasn't it?
“I am left to wonder whether a white faculty member would have been treated in such a publicly disrespectful and disparaging manner,” she wrote.
Oh come on now - she was treated with kid gloves - there was no rush to judgment, in that there was an 18-month investigation before anything was done, and she was offered a confidential, face-saving exit had she chosen to accept her punishment. Would they have treated a white faculty member with such care? Perhaps, if that hypothetical white faculty member had been a member of some other 'victimized' or 'underrepresented' class. Perhaps even if the faculty member had been a white male. So she can wonder all that she wants, but it isn't going to change a thing about her own guilt...
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