The University of South Alabama has put on leave three professors who wore racist costumes to a school Halloween event seven years ago—but protesters are calling for them to be fired. Photos of finance professor Bob Wood in a Confederate soldier’s uniform and professors Alex Sharland and Teresa Weldy holding nooses were posted to the business school Facebook page after the 2014 party but have since been removed. In a statement, Wood said his rented costume was “ill-conceived” and apologized for “this error in judgment.” Sharland bizarrely called the noose “an attempt at humor that clearly failed.”
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