No White, married men
Nov 09, 2019
The state of higher education in America:
A Romania-born academic says he recently left his tenured position at Columbia University because the Ivy League school is “on its way toward full blown communism,” according to a Romanian TV interview translated by a Romanian-American immigrant.
When a faculty member retired, the other professors had a meeting to talk about the replacement. Here's how that went down:
Serban, who was the director of the hiring committee, says that he was told that it could not be someone like him because he is a man that has been “married, a heterosexual man who has children.”
The professor says that he then asked if they could choose a straight white male if the most qualified candidate happened to be so, and was promptly told that they could not. “I felt like I was living under communism again,” he said.
The final blow:
A second incident involving a male-to-female transgender student was the final impetus for Serban to resign, according to the translated video. While reviewing applicants to the theater school, the transgender student prepared Juliet’s monologue from “Romeo and Juliet.”
Good on Serban for resigning. He understands the cost of lies.