(NAME-MCE) Swastika Painted on Columbia Professor’s Door

[Anselmo Villanueva]

A swastika was found spray-painted on a Jewish professor's office door
Wednesday at Teachers College of Columbia University, *The New York
Times*<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/education/01swastika.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>reported.
The professor said that she had last month reported to officials
that she had received anti-Semitic fliers in her mailbox at the college.
Also last month, a noose was found on the door of a black professor at the
college.

Complete story below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/education/01swastika.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin


Swastika Painted on Columbia Professor's Door By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Published: November 1, 2007

A swastika was found spray-painted on a Jewish professor's office door
yesterday morning at Teachers College at Columbia
University<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/columbia_university/index.html?inline=nyt-org>,
the second time in less than a month that one of the college's professors
has been the target of bias.

The professor, Elizabeth Midlarsky, a clinical psychologist who has done
studies on the Holocaust, said the college's associate provost called to
notify her of the swastika. Ms. Midlarsky said it was actually the third
time in recent weeks that she had been the target of bias.

On Oct. 17, she said, she found an anti-Semitic flier in her mailbox at
work. She said she found two more copies of the same flier in her mailbox on
Oct. 24. She said she reported those incidents to Columbia officials.

"I see this as an attack of extreme hate and extreme cowardice by someone
trying to make a point," Dr. Midlarsky said yesterday. The police said they
had no suspects.

On Oct. 10, a noose was found on the office door of Madonna G. Constantine,
a black professor at the college. A string of similar acts in the region
have occurred in recent weeks, including one in which a Brooklyn principal
received a noose along with a racially charged letter in the mail.