N.J. history professor defends treatment of stutterer

(CBS/AP) 

RANDOLPH, N.J. - The New Jersey college professor who asked a stuttering student to pose his questions outside of class time said she has become a victim of "character assassination," and that she didn't mean to silence him.

Elizabeth Snyder told The New York Times she's received "the most hateful, vile, vicious e-mails" since the story came out earlier this week.

Snyder said she had asked Philip Garber Jr. - who suffers from a severe stutter - to pose his questions after class, in order to put him at ease and not to take up too much class time.

Snyder told the paper Garber, a 16-year-old taking courses at the County College of Morris, "seemed to want to answer every question" in Snyder's history class....