Romanian Theater Professor Explains Why He Quit Columbia University: ‘I Felt Like I Was Back in Communism’

Romanian Theater Professor Explains Why He Quit Columbia University: ‘I Felt Like I Was Back in Communism’
Columbia University campus in New York , on July 1, 2013. Mario Tama/Getty Images
Bill Pan
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After teaching at Columbia University’s School of the Arts for more than two decades, Romanian-born professor Andrei Șerban recently quit his tenured position.

On a TV show aired by Romania’s public television TVR, the famed opera and theater director revealed that he resigned because the school’s extravagant political correctness reminded him of living under communism.