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: "What has Dr. Cobbs done to deserve all this? First, she is a conservative Republican who has been active in the Republican party. She put Republican signs in her front yard. She refused to donate $1,000 to L. Douglas Wilder's campaign, as she was asked to do so by a left-wing colleague. When department chair, she turned down an extremely militant social work faculty member for tenure, based upon unsatisfactory work performance and a failure to complete the doctorate within an expected time frame. And when serving as chair of the search committee for a new provost in 1992, she voted against another extremely militant faculty member who had applied. In this latter case the applicant confronted Dr. Cobbs and called her a 'nigger'. "