(Source: Texas Public Policy Foundation) Spellman's demise can be traced to two seemingly unrelated incidents, both tied to Gann's leftward tilt. In March 2004, a visiting professor of psychology, Kerri Dunn, spoke at a campus forum on racism, announcing that that very day, her car was vandalized, its windows smashed and tires slashed. Spray-painted slurs festooned her car: 'Kike Whore' (Dunn, a Catholic, was publically converting to Judaism), 'Bitch,' 'Shut Up' and 'N-- Lover,' rounded out by a mangled swastika. The campus was agog. College leaders condemned the hate crime and called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate a possible civil rights violation. A $10,000 reward...
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