Professor races to address race in plagiarism flap

by E Wayne Ross on February 25, 2008

Newsday: Professor races to address race in plagiarism flap

Sheryl McCarthy

Madonna Constantine must be the most aggrieved person on earth.

In October, the black Columbia University Teachers College professor reported finding a noose on her office door. She immediately called a news conference to denounce it as an “unbelievably vile” and “blatant act of racism.”

The incident provoked student protests, not to mention considerable hand-wringing about whether this, along with several other noose sightings by African-Americans around the country, was part of an upsurge in hate crimes directed at blacks.

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