THE NEW AMERICAN, by Selwyn Duke — November 9, 2019
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After fleeing communism in his native Romania, Andrei Serban likely never thought he’d have to flee it a second time — in the United States. That is, until oppressive identity politics demands forced the award-winning theater director to resign his tenured position at Columbia University, which Serban said is “on its way toward full blown communism.”
Professor Serban told his story in a Romanian television interview, which was translated into English by a Romanian immigrant, reports the College Fix. In it, Serban speaks of how he was forbidden to hire a white, male, heterosexual professor and was pressured to let a “transgender” man play Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.
Broadcast on Romania’s TVR1 October 26, the TV host, Eugenia Voda, expressed “incredulity at multiple points in the interview , seemingly shocked that the American higher education system is headed toward communism,” writes the Fix. “Serban fled from the ideology, which ruled Romania for much of the 20th century.”
One incident the professor described involved the hiring of a replacement for an academic who’d retired at the Acting School, which Serban headed. Administration asked Serban and other school professors to gather, so there were about five or six teachers, he said. (The following was auto-translated from Tribuna Românească, the Romanian Tribune, and edited for grammar and style.)
An administrator “told us the art school buzz is that there are too many white teachers, too many heterosexual male teachers,” Serban related. “So the new teacher should preferably be a black woman, and if gay, that’s better still. If a man, he preferably should be Puerto Rican or of color.”
“‘Surely there cannot be someone like you, Andrei,’ I was told. ‘You’re a man who has been married, you are heterosexual and you have children.’”
Serban then asked: What if the candidate “by far the most prepared to train these students who spend a lot of money to come to learn,” is a married, straight, white man? He was told he wouldn’t be allowed to hire the person.
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