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By Jebbica | February 21, 2008

Madonna G. Constantine, a professor at Columbia University’s Teachers’ College, was in the news last year for finding a noose draped around the handle of her office door after being accused of plagiarism.

The university’s Teachers College announced Wednesday it had imposed “serious sanctions” against Madonna G. Constantine. The college said a lengthy investigation uncovered numerous instances in which she used others’ work without attribution in papers she published in academic journals over the past five years.

Her lawyer said she had been targeted because of her race and hinted the sanctions and noose incident were linked, claims Teachers College spokeswoman Marcia Horowitz denied.

Teachers’ College has now settled a case against Constantine. Not that she hung the noose around the door knob herself, “although that they may well turn out to be the case,” suggests The New Republic.  However, police at the time ruled out any possibility that Constantine had hung the rope herself, and a few weeks later, a swastika was discovered on the door of a Jewish professor at Teachers College. As of Thursday, the investigation was ongoing and there had been no arrests made in either incident, police said.

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