Margaret Mary Vojtko was a longtime adjunct professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Earlier this month, she died penniless. She may have an even greater effect in death than in life. Yesterday, Daniel Kovalik, a union official and friend of Vojtko, wrote an op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette relating the circumstances of the end of Vojtko’s life. In short: she was afflicted with cancer, and living in poverty, in a crumbling home, in conditions so poor that a neighbor had called Adult Protective Services to help her. As a “proud professional,” she didn’t want help, and asked Kovalik to help get APS off her back. That same day, she fell dead of a heart attack.

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by Hamilton Nolan, Gawker.

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