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Bergen Community College students react to professor’s suspension

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Bergen Community College students react to professor’s suspension

APRIL 18, 2014, 4:44 PM    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2014, 10:54 PM
BY JOHN C. ENSSLIN
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD

Students at Bergen Community College expressed surprise, puzzlement, dismay and astonishment on Friday to media reports that tenured Professor Francis Schmidt had been suspended for eight days after posting on social media sites a photograph of his 7-year-old daughter wearing a “Game of Thrones” T-shirt.His daughter had been wearing the yellow shirt that included a quote from one of the characters in the darkly violent but hugely popular fantasy television series on HBO that read: “I will take what is mine with fire & blood.”“It’s a book,” said Paul Mendoza, a 28-year-old computer science major from Nutley who described himself as a fan of both the show and the fantasy series of books by Bayonne-born author George R.R. Martin, upon which the hit TV series is based.

“I like the book. I like the series.” Mendoza said. “It’s fiction. I don’t understand why people were making a big deal about it.”

“It’s his personal life,” Mendoza said of Schmidt. “I don’t find that offensive. I’m sure there are many people who wear the same shirt or wear worse. It’s just a shirt.”

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