Salah Hassan Quotations

Don was an outstanding and exemplary teacher. His commitment to teaching and to bridging his scholarship and practice in the classroom was clearly illuminated in the record of highly innovative courses that he taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Don also was known as a great storyteller, and students often left his classroom with smiles on their faces. Over the years Don had gained the reputation among his former students as a passionate, compelling teacher and a highly respected mentor.

It's clearly, in my view, a racially-motivated incident. In general, we as a Cornell community, and more specifically the black community, are very concerned - we condemn it.

You definitely feel disturbed by this. For now, I walk by myself, but it is alarming.