Cornell University Professor Emails Class to Help Identify Unmasked Students So He Can Fail Them

Dr. Bruce Monger, a university professor at Cornell, threatened to fail two students who did not wear masks during his class. Monger is a senior lecturer at the director of undergraduate studies for Earth and atmospheric sciences. He sent an email out to his entire Introductory Oceanography class to seek help identifying the two maskless students.

Monger gave graphic detail of the student’s physical features.

“One student is a male with red hair and a fairly prominent hooked nose…The other student is a male who was sitting to the left of the redhead. He has short brown hair maybe 1 – 1/2 to 2 inches in length and small a nose…He spent the whole lecture with his mask down around his chin.”

Referring to someone having a “hooked” nose is a known anti-semitic trope. It became popularized during 1930’s Nazi Germany with photos circulating as propaganda. A student who spoke to The Daily Wire admitted that they found Monger’s comments offensive.

Monger concluded his email by threatening their grades. He wrote, “If/when I find the identity of these two students, I will be failing them both for the semester as [I] promised I would in class last Wednesday.”

Cornell responded to the professor’s email by reiterating the school’s policies.

At Cornell, they require all faculty, students, and staff to wear masks inside. This is in addition to requiring all students to be vaccinated against Covid-19.

Cornell has mandated that all university employees be vaccinated by December 8 unless they’ve received a university-approved medical or religious exemption. The school reported that 97% of the on-campus study body is vaccinated.

In its statement, Cornell said Monger “regularly advised his students of the mask requirement, noting potential consequences for failing to comply.”

The school added,  “[Monger] described the students’ physical characteristics in ways that do not reflect Cornell values. Dr. Monger has since acknowledged that his approach in dealing with unmasked students in class was not handled in an appropriate manner.”

Cornell has published guidance for how to handle students refusing to wear masks. Failing students for this offense is not listed as part of the allowed consequences. Instead, faculty are instructed to “report egregious or repetitive non-compliant behavior through the school’s proper channels.”

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