{"id":1167,"date":"2019-11-09T20:15:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2019-11-09T20:24:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T20:24:27","slug":"columbia-professor-who-fled-communism-resigns-says-university-is-becoming-communist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthedays.com\/?p=1167","title":{"rendered":"COLUMBIA PROFESSOR WHO FLED COMMUNISM RESIGNS, SAYS UNIVERSITY IS BECOMING COMMUNIST"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Article Source:<\/strong> The College Fix<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Submitted By: Juliann\u200b<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A Romania-born academic says he recently left his tenured position at Columbia University because the Ivy League school is \u201con its way toward full blown communism,\u201d according to a\u00a0Romanian TV interview translated<\/a>\u00a0by a Romanian-American immigrant.<\/p>\n\n

Prof. Andrei Serban, an award-winning director, complained about the increasing social justice demands he faced in the theater department in the interview, which aired on\u00a0Romania\u2019s TVR1 Oct. 26.<\/a>\u00a0One prominent example he gave: pressure to admit a transgender applicant who auditioned as Juliet from \u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Andy Ionescu, a native Romianian speaker who immigrated to the United States in 1999, told\u00a0The College Fix<\/em>\u00a0in a Twitter message that he translated the interview.<\/p>\n\n

He said it was likely the first time that Serban made his resignation publicly known. Columbia\u00a0still lists Serban<\/a>\u00a0as an active professor. Media relations did not respond to an email from\u00a0The Fix<\/em>, and Serban\u2019s department did not return a voicemail. Serban did not respond to an email.<\/p>\n\n

The TV host expresses incredulity at multiple points in the interview, seemingly shocked that the American higher education system is headed toward communism. Serban fled from the ideology, which ruled Romania for much of the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n

Serban says in the interview that after a faculty member retired, the remaining professors in the department were called in to a meeting to discuss a replacement.<\/p>\n\n

It was at this meeting that the dean of the art school told them that there were \u201ctoo many white professors, too many heterosexual men,\u201d and that it would be best to hire a minority or a woman, or a gay man.<\/p>\n\n

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 \u201cmarried, a heterosexual man who has children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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. \u201cI felt like I was living under communism again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n

A second incident involving a male-to-female transgender student was the final impetus for Serban to resign, according to the translated video.<\/p>\n\n

While reviewing applicants to the theater school, the transgender student prepared Juliet\u2019s monologue from \u201cRomeo and Juliet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

Serban says that he could not believe that this person could become Juliet. After his colleagues expressed displeasure with him for stating as much, Serban resigned, saying that he could not violate his principles.<\/p>\n\n

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