Teachers College President Susan Fuhrman said in an email to all students and faculty that a series of meetings were scheduled this week to allow members of the Teachers College community to express their concerns.
“The Teachers College community and I deplore this hateful act, which violates every Teachers College and societal norm,” Fuhrman said.
“You would not think that something like this would happen at Columbia,” said Mikayla Graham, a graduate student at Teachers College “But it’s up to us to show the world that we will not stand for this kind of intolerance and prejudice.”
The incident at Columbia is the latest in a series of racially motivated situations across the country where a noose was apparently left for an African-American. A noose set off the racial incidents at Jena High School in Jena, La., last year, and one was displayed following the civil rights march supporters of the Jena Six held last month. Also last month, a noose was discovered hanging outside of the Black cultural affairs center at the University of Maryland, College Park.
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