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Subpoenas Issued, "Post" Makes Awful Pun

Relatively unreliable paper The New York Post is reporting that a grand jury has subpoenaed all Columbia's records on Madonna Constantine, citing financial records and personnel records of particular importance.

The investigation into last year's noose-hanging incident has yet to pinpoint any possible suspects, while the plagiarism investigation remains tightly under wraps, with both Constantine's lawyer and the University's PR firm declining to comment.

The Post also refers to sources who explain that the subpoena could signal "that the investigation is broadening to examine possible links between the teacher, her closest friends and the racially charged incident."



Posted by spelling nazi: #1 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 3:43 PM (from campus)
spelling mistake: "Madonnna"
Posted by ...: #2 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 3:44 PM (from campus)
[external link to www.wikicu.com]
Posted by I sincerely hope: #3 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 4:08 PM (from campus)
she gets to serve some jail time.
Posted by She'd: #4 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 4:28 PM
probably hang a noose on her cell door and demand to be set free due to the inherent racism of our penal system.
Posted by .......: #5 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 5:35 PM (from campus)
what's going on outside by the gates?
Posted by oh no: #6 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 5:51 PM (from campus)
Madonna, I hope your credit card receipts don't have any rope purchases on em.

i just dunno what to think...
Posted by haha: #7 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 6:24 PM (from campus)
I like that Bwog parroted that JuicyCampus story from Gothamist and the Post the without fact-checking first but, when it turned out to be false, proceeded to knock both sources for not fact-checking. Nice.
Posted by eek: #8 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 6:47 PM (from campus)
and continues to cite the post, too.
Posted by what the fuck: #9 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 7:59 PM (from campus)
is this? the antebellum south? can we relax with the vitriol..... or do ppl really think such attacks would be the same if she hadn't previously been the subject of racism-exposing attacks....
Posted by The Kerouac: #10 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 8:14 PM (from campus)
I saw her face in the soil and I knew it was the same soil they tilled two hundred years ago with bloody hands digging in the dirt as they breathed the hot, wet Savannah air and thought of freedom and you don't just forget that over night, no sir, and you don't leave that behind even two hundred years later and at night when you see the bright, bright stars you don't think those are the same stars they looked at south of the Potomac when they waited for that sweet chariot to swing low?
Posted by Racism exposing : #11 (in reply to #9) · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 8:44 PM
attacks? What racism? Oh wait you mean that the majority of the campus called bullshit on the Hunger Strike temper-tantrum? You mean that immediately assuming that a noose on a door was the result of an inherently racist university? You foolish intellectual pygmy.
Posted by fdsas: #12 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 10:39 PM (from campus)
"pygmy" refers to a group of people and using it as a denigrating tag presumes some group-wide deffiency of those people. Thus you are racist. QED.
Posted by EAL: #13 (in reply to #9) · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 11:19 PM (from campus)
Hi Anthony Kelley! What obnoxious, racist pile of tripe will you be publishing in the Spec this week?
Posted by nopers: #14 (in reply to #12) · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 11:24 PM (from campus)
The term pygmy is itself a western word. Not sure it's really accurate to say that it's LITERAL use (i.e. to describe something small) is racist.
Posted by if you're interested: #15 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 11:24 PM (from campus)
here's a comparison between Constantine's work and one of her students:

[external link to www.nypost.com]
Posted by Marilyn: #16 · reply · track
March 31, 2008 at 11:59 PM (from campus)
Anthony Kelley's column, "Strength to Love," runs alternate Tuesdays. His column will be running next Tuesday, not this week. Enjoy!
Posted by are you trying: #17 (in reply to #14) · reply · track
April 1, 2008 at 1:04 AM
to say 'pygmy' doesn't create an oppressive power structure? What type of discriminatory constructs will you protect next? Racist!
Posted by anonymous: #18 (in reply to #17) · reply · track
April 1, 2008 at 1:29 AM
OMG I know right, I mean, just the fact that these people are here speaking a WESTERN language presupposes the dominance of a particular culture and thereby the virtual enslavement of individuals of "lesser" cultures.
Posted by lolz: #19 (in reply to #9) · reply · track
April 1, 2008 at 1:59 AM (from campus)
Attacks? Yeah, of course, she couldn't ACTUALLY have plagiarized anything. All the big meanies are just out to get her!
Posted by phew: #20 (in reply to #15) · reply · track
April 1, 2008 at 2:03 AM
Finally, some damn samples! Those are much more relevant to this problem than shrieking and finger-pointing... and pretty convincing in a case against Prof. C. Oh well, off we go.
Posted by i know: #21 (in reply to #20) · reply · track
April 1, 2008 at 12:25 PM (from campus)
i was just browsing on the new york post website and stumbled on this. I wish I had seen this sooner. REALLY damning, i say.
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