{"id":1732,"date":"1995-04-09T02:16:29","date_gmt":"1995-04-09T02:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2018-10-17T02:48:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T02:48:29","slug":"professor-itzkoffs-office-home-vandalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1995\/04\/09\/professor-itzkoffs-office-home-vandalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Itzkoff\u2019s office, home vandalized"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 9, 1995<\/p>\n

Professor Itzkoff\u2019s office, home vandalized<\/p>\n

Professor Seymour Itzkoff\u2019s Wright Hall office was vandalized sometime between 10 p.m. Sunday and 5 a.m. Monday. The incident came after the fall publication of Itzkoff\u2019s controversial book, The Decline of Intelligence in America: A Strategy for National Renewal, that linked intelligence and genetics. Both the hallway and the inside of Itzkoff\u2019s office were spray-painted, with \u201cRacist tenured\u201d and \u201cRacist scholar\u201d reportedly painted inside his office. Itzkoff\u2019s books were damaged as well. Itzkoff was informed of the vandalism by college officials early Monday morning. When he left to go to his office, he discovered that the outside of his house had also been spray-painted, reading \u201cBeware racist.\u201d Once the police had arrived to his Ashfield home and Itzkoff lowered the garage door, another message was discovered there reading \u201cYour words will follow you.\u201d The fluorescent color used to spray-paint the office was the same as the color used to paint Itzkoff\u2019s home.<\/i><\/p>\n

The full Sophian article on the vandalism can be found here (<\/i>1<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>2<\/i><\/a>).<\/i><\/p>\n

Sophian letters to the editor on the vandalism can be found <\/i>here<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

A Daily Hampshire Gazette (Northampton) article on the vandalism can be found here (<\/i>1<\/i><\/a>, <\/i>2<\/i><\/a>).<\/i><\/p>\n

A Union-News (Springfield) article on the vandalism can be found <\/i>here<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

[Last updated on October 16, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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