Art history sheds light on professor’s reference to student’s hooked nose
The buck stops at the educational failure of museums.
Much ink has already spilt on an email that Cornell University earth and atmospheric science professor Bruce Monger sent his class, in which he described a student’s allegedly “fairly prominent hooked nose.” The Ithaca, N.Y. school’s statement noted in part that the professor described “unmasked students’ physical characteristics in ways that do not ref…