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Swastika found on Columbia professor's door
By Karyn Chenoweth Nov 1, 2007, 14:47 GMT
The use of Nazi symbols is a crime in Germany. EPA/Uli Deck
CNN is reporting that a second professor of psychology and education at a Columbia University school has been targeted with a hateful symbol of repression, police said
Elizabeth Midlarsky, who is Jewish, discovered a painted swastika on her office door yesterday morning.
Like her peer Madonna Constantine, who discovered a noose on her office door Oct. 9, Midlarsky is a professor of psychology and education.
The New York City Police Department's hate crime unit is investigating both incidents. No arrests have been made, police said.
Midlarsky's research has studied heroic rescues during the Holocaust.
Only a few days after the noose incident on Constatine's door, a scrawled yarmulke-wearing man and a Swastika was found on a university bathroom stall door. Police at the time said there was no reason to believe the two incidents were linked.
CNN reports that more nooses have been discovered, one outside a post office near Ground Zero and in at least four locations on Long Island.
Police attribute the actions to copycats who may be responsible.
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