Professors on leave after racist photos surface – but some students say that’s not enough
MOBILE, Alabama (WALA) Responding to a growing controversy over 7-year-old Halloween photos the recently resurfaced, the University of South Alabama on Friday put three professors on leave and launched an internal investigation.
But several dozen angry students who gathered outside a board of trustees meeting said the moves were insufficient.
“As educators and leaders in our community at the University of South Alabama, to have that type of influence over students and to post pictures with a noose around your neck and dressed as Confederates dressed up and laughing, that’s ultimately disrespect to students here at South Alabama,” said senior Basheer Addar, who is among those calling for the professors to be fired.
3 university professors placed on leave after photos surface of them at campus event wearing and holding racist symbols
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3 Alabama professors are under investigation over racially insensitive Halloween photos of a Confederate uniform, whip, and noose
INSIDER 3/7/2021
University faculty members were placed on leave after racially offensive photos of them resurfaced.
The three Alabama professors were captured at an on-campus costume party in 2014, WKRG-TV reported.
One professor posed in a Confederate uniform, while the other two posed with a noose and whip.
Faculty members of a university in Mobile, Alabama, are under investigation after racially offensive images of them from a costume party a few years ago recently resurfaced.
According to WKRG-TV, the three professors at the University of South Alabama took the photos at an on-campus Halloween party in 2014. The report said that professors Teresa Weldy and Alex Sharland were posing with a whip and noose. Bob Wood, who was the dean of the Mitchell College of Business back then, was captured in a Confederate soldier uniform.