Professor who wrote nasty note sues

The note affixed to the office door handle of a Columbia College professor was short, simple and to the point. "Jack sucks donkey c---."

It was, school officials contend, the workings of another professor who was embroiled in a dispute with his colleague.

But after Reid Hyams was fired for placing the note on Jack Alexander's door, Hyams filed suit against Columbia, alleging the school wrongly fired him for what he calls "an impromptu joke."



Besides, Hyams said, the note he wrote had said "Jack sucks donkey d---" and that's just an industry slang term for a type of electro-voice microphone.

"Somebody intentionally changed the term from one that has an industry connotation to one that does not," said his attorney, Stuart Gimble.

Hyams confesses his "joke" was inappropriate, but hardly thinks it warranted losing his job.