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It’s time for another chapter in the sorry tale of Madonna Constantine, the TC psychology professor who found a noose on her door and later found herself the subject of a plagiarism investigation.
Anyway, she’s back, and she’s suing Columbia for wrongful termination. She had planned to appeal her termination, but that having apparently not turned out in her favor, she’s now looking to the State Supreme Court to reverse her firing. She’s arguing that her being let-go was “arbitrary, irrational and unauthorized.”
Columbia’s not commenting.
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@Alum Constantine probably sued only TC, not Columbia. She is/was a TC prof, and TC is a legally separate entity. She was fired by TC after a TC investigation found she had plagiarized. CU had little if any role in her dismissal.
@factfinder Yes, Graciela Chichilnisky, but what was because she was a woman.
http://www.chichilnisky.com/
@wasn't there some crazy white economics (or math) professor who tried suing Columbia bc of some stupid shit. ugh… white people!
@totally racism doesn’t come into play here at all. she’d be crazy and pathetic as a member of any other race!
affirmative action doesn’t solve anything. it tries, though. maybe in 20 years we’ll see something good come of it and then it can be put behind us.
@... YES
@...... if she was white, she’d still be a crazy bitch.
@nostalgia Does “arbitrary, irrational and unauthorized” remind anyone else of Jackie Chiles from Seinfeld?
@wait after all of this drama, why would she actually want to come back and teach here?
@What a pathetic bitch
@two words affirmative action… this is why we shouldn’t allow it
@two words: fallacious reasoning.
@In fact... I heard that black people invented plagiarism. Is that true? Oh, it’s not?…Damn, I guess I’ll go back to trying to ruin David Blaine’s career.
@... are you referring to jayson blair?
@umm go die. KTHXBYE.
@... um, shut the fuck up. giving people with a fucked up background a chance to advance in this ridiculous world has nothing to do with this crazy bitch.
@...... the problem is not that the people with fucked up backgrounds get to advance in this ridiculous world, as you put it, but other qualified people, who did not participate in the discrimination/etc. of said people, are not allowed to advance because affirmative action makes us feeeeel better about ourselves. Unfortunately it doesn’t make up for anything that happened.
@umd can someone please explain what this case has to do with affirmative action? Is the assumption here that all minorities who occupy positions such as Constantine are there as the result of affirmative action (aa) and that aa favors unqualified minorities over qualified whites?
@truth affirmative action doesn’t give advantages to people with “fucked up backgrounds” it benefits people solely on the basis of skin color