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Academy: Kings Point professor keeps job

Vickery Gate is one of the first things

Photo credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas | Vickery Gate is one of the first things visitors see as they enter the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point. (Feb. 22, 2012)

The Merchant Marine Academy's decision to let a professor keep his job after making an off-color joke about the July Colorado movie shootings was the right one, said the mother of a cadet who attended the class and lost his father in the massacre.

Greg F. Sullivan was suspended for 45 days without pay Tuesday, weeks after the cadet, Weston Cowden and his mother, Melisa Cowden, had pleaded...

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