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Prof. suspended over hit man Facebook posting

A professor at a northeastern Pennsylvania university says she's been suspended indefinitely for what she thought was a humorous posting on Facebook about hiring a hit man.
/ Source: The Associated Press

A professor at a northeastern Pennsylvania university says she's been suspended indefinitely for what she thought was a humorous posting on Facebook about hiring a hit man.

East Stroudsburg University sociology professor Gloria Gadsden says she was suspended Wednesday because administrators thought she was making threats.

Gadsden says she jokingly referred to looking for a "discrete" hit man in one post and removed another comment that said she didn't want to kill any students but "Friday was a different story."

Gadsden says officials referred to the shooting at the University of Alabama-Huntsville earlier this month during the meeting.

A university spokesman wouldn't comment on Gadsden's claims, calling it a personnel matter.

East Stroudsburg is a state university in the Pocono Mountains.