By Elizabeth Ladzinski
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
CHELSEA — A Spanish teacher at Princeton University committed suicide in his Chelsea apartment after losing his job at the Ivy League institution, several news outlets reported.
Antonio Calvo, 45, who's a native of Spain, was found with self-inflicted slash wounds to his neck and arm inside his 12th-floor apartment on West 26th Street on April 12, the New York Post reported.
According to Calvo's friend, Marco Aponte, he had been told four days earlier that he would not be brought back as a lecturer and director of the Spanish department, even though the department had recommended renewing his contract.
The university ultimately overruled the Department's recommendation.
"This news came after a long campaign was launched against him by a group of graduate students and a lecturer from the department," Aponte told the Post, adding that the attack on Calvo involved "political correctness."
The New York Times reported that several graduate students and a colleague of Calvo had mounted a campaign against him.
Because Calvo's visa was sponsored by the university, he would have been forced to leave the U.S., Aponte said.
A school spokeswoman declined comment. The university held a memorial service for Calvo on Thursday.
A notice about the service on Princeton's website said Calvo "was on leave from Princeton at the time of his death."
