Hate mail to Columbia faculty probed
NEW YORK - The New York Police Department is investigating apparent hate mail sent to faculty at Columbia University's Teachers College that contained drawings of swastikas and a noose.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the department's Hate Crimes Task Force is leading the investigation into the letters placed in faculty mailboxes.
Teachers College's president, Susan Fuhrman, sent an e-mail to students and faculty urging recipients to cooperate in the probe. Spokeswoman Marcia Horowitz told the college's newspaper that there would be no further comment.
Faculty were also targeted in 2007, when someone hung a noose on a black professor's office door. In a separate case, a Jewish professor found a swastika painted on her office door. 