Constantine is a crazy person, and the noose was a fake.

why corrupt the old saying? “Fat lady” works for this example too.

(and as to avoid being called shallow, I would also like to say [as a black woman] that she’s an prize idiot)

Ahh, you beat me to it. “Fat lady” would have been perfect. I guess it would be too much to expect some original defense from her, given that she’s a plagiarist… the racism card was inevitable. How classy.

Clearly she is pathological, stealing from her colleagues, pretty much the only people who might actually read her work.

Maaaybe the noose on your door is a result of your systematic theft of others’ intellectual property? Hmm? Just maybe? No? Damn the man!

Truth you are out of line. Why would you assume she is crazy and the noose was fake.

I put the noose on her door, not becaue I’m racist, but because I felt left out. She was stealing everyone else’s work and I just wanted her to acknowledge my own contribution, “Beginner’s Guide to Knots & Splices,” so I put a knot on her door as a subtle hint. In retrospect, the noose may have been a poor choice.

Seems like a no-brainer to me that she put the noose on her own door, knowing her career was doomed, so she could cry “racism!” I don’t buy for a minute that Jena-style rednecks are roaming the halls of Teachers College, and she seems pathological and crazy enough to do it. Hope this race-baiting waste of space gets fired.

Help! I’m being held accountable for my plagiarism because I’m black!

light, why would you assume otherwise?

Fire her already. She’s a complete and utter lair.

Dear Sir Self-Righteous,

Imagine you lied. Imagine it was a big lie. (Many of us are guilty of the occasional Big Lie.) Now imagine that someone used that as a reason to automatically mistrust everything you said. Wouldn’t you take umbrage, or at least be unhappy about it? Your position, which explicitly assumes guilt until innocence is proven, is one which I suspect you would rather not have applied to you. After all, what if no evidence that this woman hung the noose herself is forthcoming? Will you still believe her to be guilty? Imagine that she is innocent–is there a conceivable way for her to clear herself in your eyes, short of the true culprit coming forward? Does one lie–even a big one–condemn you to never be believed again?

For someone who goes by ‘truth,’ you have some funny ideas about it.

what’s the difference? she should be fired whether or not she hung her own noose.

Why does Columbia have a teachers’ college?

why not? it is the top graduate school of education in the country.

Because its the best in the nation?

because the vast majority of teachers are underqualified, PC-spouting drones that are unfireable thanks to tenure and unions, and it appears that Columbia isn’t helping matters by employing this underqualified PC-spouting drone.

“Big Lie?” You can imagine yourself guilty of systematic plagiarism? This isn’t telling your mom you brushed your teeth when you didn’t. This isn’t telling your grandmother you didn’t take the cookie when you did. Everybody lies; everybody says and does things they wish they didn’t do. Of course I can understand that, but what this woman did was not a single, isolated action made in a moment of weakness. This is not “one lie.” It lasted for years! You call me self-righteous, fine, but if I’m too harsh, then you’re far too lenient. You’re putting yourself in her shoes as if you could possibly do something like this, and I think you forget the scope of her deceit. As a professor, she should hold herself to the highest standards of academic integrity, or how could she respond if a student like you or me slipped and told a “Big Lie?” You say it’s possible, and I agree: I would not be “self-righteous” if it was one stupid mistake that somebody made—and then asked for forgiveness. But this was not a single slip on her part. I don’t know if she takes “umbrage” to the accusations being made, but if it is true that the noose isn’t a hoax, that Columbia has crazy-ass racists running around its campus, then it’s nobody’s fault but her own if we don’t believe her. She has lied for years, and she’s never (never!) asked for forgiveness, even when caught. Instead she claims she is the victim. Self-righteous? Fine, but I would hope that most of us, imperfect as we are, can differentiate between one “big lie” regretfully told and consistent, self-serving dishonesty.

you are a student at TC to know this i take it?

because otherwise given she is one of only 2 black tenured professors it is a pretty big leap in logic to assume who among the faculty are PC-spouting drones

@10:52 right on broheim.

Wasting one breath of indigination of the vast racist conspiracy at Columbia is an insult to intelligence and the real racist issues that do exist in this country. At the most charitable and credulous, someone isolated lunatic hung a noose on her door. This does not excuse nor mitigate years of systematic plagarism. Unless, of course, the noose was a veiled warning from the Columbia administration to make her keep quiet and continue to plagarize so they oculd fire her. The sad thing is that you could get a few idiots at Columbia to scream about how that could happen, and they couldn’t find Jena, Louisiana on a map.

Her playing the race card devalues the race card where it should be used in many other arenas, and is an insult to her supporters and friends.

… Especially since Columbia is a hotbed of liberal radicalism and PC nonsense. Seriously these are the people that brought you equal airtime for holocaust deniers and genocidists. The LAST thing going on is a racist conspiracy against blacks. Maybe against Jews or white men I would believe.

Oh no, another black professor who sees racists behind every corner, every door and every mirror(actually that really is a racist in the mirror “professor”). Shame on her, shame on columbia for not firing her IMMEDIATLY. Another Ivy league university down the hopper.

Madonna Constantine. 14 minutes 58 seconds, 14 minutes 59 seconds.

Before she got caught, she got tenure and she got promoted to full professor. Teachers College needs to take another look at its promotion criteria. Here’s an idea: they should systematically subject faculty articles to plagiarism software, just like they do for students.

Just for the record, Teacher’s College is not part of Columbia University. It is across the street and part of the “Columbia community”, which effectively means they have borrowing privileges at our library.

Just for the record, Teacher’s College is not part of Columbia University. It is across the street and part of the “Columbia community”, which effectively means they have borrowing privileges at our library.