Regardless of motivation, punching out women in bars is normally considered bad form.

Too Bad for someone who is suppose to set a good example.I hope he is suspended from his job.

Stay classy, Columbia! I thought it was the students who were supposed to be drunk and brawling.

Kudos for actually mentioning the fact that he punched her for disagreeing with him over "white privilege" (something the Times and Columbia Spectator seemed to leave out entirely.) However, I find it pretty sad that because you don't have a way to excuse the professor's actions by pointing out ANY direct racial provocation, the first thing you do is start quoting idiot Post commenters as if their drivel somehow tacitly excuses the professor's rage.

Toast's website needs some work; their bar menu isn't displaying.

HATE CRIME!

@Abu

You may have been joking, but imagine how this whole situation would have gone down if he was white and she was black.

Another marvelous example of the VV jumping to the aid of a victim. Apparently, the victim in this case is Prof. McIntyre.
Look, if you want there to be racial equality in this country, you have to be on the side of racial equality.
We all know that the lede and story line would have been much different had a white man punched a black woman over a racial discussion.
MUCH different.
So, what is it you really want?

The Professor is the point man for CU's push to expand into Harlem at the expense of long-term black residents?
And he is arguing white privilege???
When will Black men learn that you can't attack white women when you realize that you haven't changed the hearts and minds of white men after doing their dirty work?

Ms. Davis was pressured not to file charges?
Wonder who did that? If you play race reversal
this is National News. Somehow the wacko liberals will find a way to blame Whitey. If Columbia doesn't fire this loser then that speakes volumes.

Hes an elitist who couln't help himself and plus, it was a soft target. He knew that he was correct so he wasn't going to take any crap from some 'privileged' white person.

what a racist!

And naturally you have no journalistic interest in the "whys" or "whos" pressuring the victim "not to make waves"? Give this writer a Pulitzer!

Imagine if the circumstances were reversed and a white man had punched a black woman in the face in a bar filled with intoxicated black men. All of those men ought to be ashamed of themselves.

It's not really clear from the article whom he punched.

It says McIntyre was having a drink with Davis "of the School of the Arts". But it's not clear that she's the same person identified as his victim as "a Columbia production manager". Better writing would have been welcome.