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Professor Resigns Over Columbia University’s Trend Toward Communism

Professor Resigns Over Columbia University’s Trend Toward Communism
People walk past the Alma Mater statue on the Columbia University campus in New York City on July 1, 2013. Mario Tama/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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A Romanian-born professor who fled communism in his homeland said he recently abandoned his tenured post at Columbia University because various incidents convinced him the prestigious school is “on its way toward full-blown communism.”

Andrei Serban, an award-winning film director with an extensive list of credits on the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), complained about the growing pressure to conform to social-justice ideals he experienced in the theater department of the Ivy League school, in an interview that aired Oct. 26 on Romania’s TVR1.