Huffington Post considered the possibility of the noose being a hoax back when it happened, although obviously without the context of possible plagiarism:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/hanging-nooses-hate-or-h_b_68198.html

The chances of a Columbia student or faculty member, the only ones with access to the building, risking so much (their future, their career) to place such a grotesque symbol of racism and hatred on a relatively unknown professor’s door are very, very, very small, and the act itself makes little sense from the standpoint of the perpetrator, even when considered from the dull, blunt viewpoint one might expect a crazed noose-loving racist to have. He/she/they would have nothing to gain from something like this, especially if they could never claim responsibility or tell anybody—something nobody has apparently done—and I doubt very much that Columbia has rabid noose-loving racists running around in its student body. For Constantine, the noose was boon and a convenient distraction from career troubles. She only benefited from the ordeal.
This smacks of the Abscombe Affair. IvyGate was right to suspect the ridiculousness of Nava’s claim, and they led the charge to expose him. They are now presented with an opportunity to do the same against the opposite end of the political spectrum. The same psychology is likely in play: an underconfident person hungry for attention and recognition who has shown little hesitation to abuse or fabricate truth for his/her gain (previous “scandals” in Nava’s case, demonstrated plagiarism in Constantine’s). I hope IvyGate makes the right decision.

Yeah, half of the douchebag right-wingers in the u.s. posted on Spec’s site claiming the same thing. God, I’d hate it if they were right for once.

Can’t we just fire her and be done with it?

From the Spec article:

“Is this where our tuition dollars are going? Toward the investigation of a woman whose words of insight and provocative thoughts have progressed the academic battle toward social justice?” said Amanda Luterman, a TC student in counseling and clinical psychology. “I honestly don’t understand the priorities here anymore when I see the good guys under siege.”

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I guess that’s all you need to know about the prevalent mindset at the politicized Teacher’s College. Not a pretty sight.

You are unbearably self-righteous.

I have no idea if she was actually behind the noose-hanging incident, but either way I think making fun of it is a bit premature, IvyGate.

If she had, then you (and I) can and will make all the puns we can muster. However, if it was an unrelated incident, we’d look like pretty much the biggest assholes in the world.

It’s not like there haven’t been hate crimes faked before. There was the Anscombe one, the Duke Lax one, and the stupid one involving a fireman putting a noose up to prevent himself from getting fired.

The Spectator disabled comments for their whole website because too many people were talking about how she faked the noose thing. Great show of your liberal bias spec.

Um, haven’t comments been disabled for a while?

Apparently a totally non-inflammatory comment I submitted didn’t cut the mustard w IG. I said TC has a poor history of minority hiring and has warned faculty and administrators that they don’t like open discussion of the issue. I also said that careful review of student and faculty work might demonstrate that plagiarism is a wide problem and one person’s (alleged) misbehavior should not be used to invalidate real problems, or even the noose until we know otherwise. I also opined the noose at TC IMHO is suspicious b/c that sort of racism is rare in that atmosphere.

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