A noose was found at Columbia University’s Teachers College on Tuesday morning, police said.
A black professor found the symbol of hate dangling from her office door in a campus building on 120th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam.
Teachers College would not release the professor’s name, but students said she teaches a class on social justice and is a vocal proponent of racial equality.
Student Mary Owens said it was “really, really disturbing” to learn that an advocate of tolerance was the target of such an act.
If this actually happened, it is ridiculous and the person responsible deserves prosecution for vandalism. That having been said, this sounds similar to so many hoaxed “hate crimes”1 on college campus that I’m more inclined to believe it’s another hoax.
Note
1. Here is a link on this same subject by Michelle Malkin; she has her own list of hate-crime hoaxes at the bottom.
