Brace yourselves. Bergen Community College is threatening faculty.

[Dr. Strange]

Remember the question about whether Game of Thrones had gone too far? Well, now it's screwing up the kingdom of Bergen Community College.

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‘Fire and Blood'

Francis Schmidt, a professor of art and animation, is one such case.

By all accounts, including his own, Schmidt is a bit of an eccentric. The longtime professor posts cat pictures to social media and loves fantasy stories, especially HBO’s popular “Game of Thrones.”

So it came as no surprise to many of his Google+ contacts that he enthusiastically posted a picture of his young daughter doing yoga in a T-shirt with the new “Game of Thrones” season tagline in January, upon release of the trailer. The T-shirt reads, “I will take what is mine in fire and blood,” and Schmidt’s cat lurks in the photo background.

But one contact -- a dean -- who was notified automatically via Google that the picture had been posted apparently took it as a threat. In an email, Jim Miller, the college’s executive director for human resources, told Schmidt to meet with him and two other administrators immediately in light of the “threatening email.”

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Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/04/16/bergen-community-college-faculty-and-president-conflict-over-many-issues

[enlightenment]

1. What a charming place.

Where are they finding all these moronic administrators? Is there a special breeding ground?