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In the days following the slaughter of 3,000 human beings on Sept. 11 by followers of Osama bin Laden, after a huge hole was ripped in the fabric of all that is considered humane and decent, University of Hawaii Hawaiian Studies Professor Haunani-Kay Trask ignored the grief of an entire nation and coldly parroted the comment of Malcolm X after President John F. Kennedy was killed: “Chickens have come home to roost.” This week, Trask was the lead cheerleader for University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill, a man she introduced at a press conference as a “comrade” whom she has...

2005 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION 15 Relating to: condemning the anti-American hate speech promoted by Professor Ward L. Churchill. Whereas, the United States of America was attacked on September 11, 2001, a day that will be remembered as one of the darkest in American history; and Whereas, the terrorists that attacked America that day murdered more than 3,000 innocent people who were doing nothing more than enjoying the inalienable rights of a free people; and Whereas, the families of those who were lost on September 11, 2001, are still in the agonizing process of grieving and recovery, enduring immeasurable pain from...

Throughout 2003 and into 2004, a surge of protests roiled American campuses. You probably think the kids were agitating against war in Iraq, right? Well, no. Students at the University of California-Los Angeles, Michigan and many other schools were sponsoring bake sales to protest ... affirmative action. For white students and faculty, a cookie cost (depending on the school) $1; blacks and Latinos could buy one for a lot less. The principle, the protesters observed, was the same one governing university admission practices: treating people differently based on race. The protests shocked the mainstream media, but to close observers of...

On Thursday, Ward Churchill, the chairman of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will come to speak at Hamilton College in upstate New York. The invitation has ruffled more than a few feathers because of an essay penned by Churchill in the days after the attacks of September 11.... [T]he rant applauds the attacks and viciously attacks the victims. I have rarely come across such a barrage of unhinged hateful psychosis masquerading as an academic treatise. I'll share the lowlights with you - but prepare to be outraged by this caricature of far-left ideological insanity....

Hamilton College believes that open-ended and free inquiry is essential to educational growth. As our Faculty Handbook says, “The right to search for truth, to express both popular and unpopular opinions, and to criticize existing beliefs and institutions, is the foundation of intellectual life in a democratic society.” Last summer, Ward Churchill, Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, was invited to campus by the Kirkland Project to give a lecture on February 3 about prisons and Native American rights. After the invitation was extended by the Kirkland Project and accepted by Churchill, statements he had made about...

BOULDER, Colo. -- The University of Colorado said Thursday a professor who compared the victims of the World Trade Center attacks to Nazis doesn't reflect the views of the school but that he has a right to express his opinion. Also Thursday, a Colorado congressman called the comments "outrageous" and urged the professor, Ward Churchill, to resign while the brother of a man who died at the World Trade Center called Churchill a "nut case." Churchill, chairman of the ethnic studies program at CU, has been invited to speak next month at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., where news of...

Hysteria -- A functional disturbance of the nervous system, characterized by such disorders as anaesthesia, hyperaesthesia, convulsions, etc., and usually attended with emotional disturbances and enfeeblement or perversion of the moral and intellectual faculties. -- Oxford English Dictionary Forgive Larry Summers. He did not know where he was. Addressing a conference on the supposedly insufficient numbers of women in tenured positions in university science departments, he suggested that perhaps part of the explanation might be innate -- genetically based -- gender differences in cognition. He thought he was speaking in a place that encourages uncircumscribed intellectual explorations. He was not....

CLINTON, N.Y. -- An outspoken professor who's drawn widespread criticism for comparing the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center to Nazis has ignited protests on a college campus where he's been invited to speak. Ward Churchill, an expert on indigenous issues and chairman of the ethnic studies program at the University of Colorado-Boulder, will take part in a panel discussion Feb. 3 at Hamilton College, a liberal arts school in upstate New York that's been a lightning rod for controversy in recent years. In a treatise titled, "Some People Push Back," written after the attacks,...

President Bush will be going to three college commencements in coming weeks — but not those of his twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna. Mr. Bush and his wife, Laura, said they did not want to subject other families to the disruptions of a presidential visit when Barbara Bush graduates from Yale University on May 24 in New Haven and Jenna Bush graduates from the University of Texas on May 22 in Austin. Mr. Bush turned down an invitation to speak at the Texas ceremony. But he will give a commencement address at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, at...

One thing is for sure in the 2004 presidential election-the Bush team should not count on too many votes from Bowdoin College faculty. Recently the conservative Center for Popular Culture did a study on the political bias in the administrations and faculties of 32 elite colleges and universities and found that Bowdoin has 23 Democrats to every one Republican. Republican professor Christian Potholm of the Government department said, "I believe there are only four Republican professors on campus, and I personally think it needs the attention of the administration and the Faculty Affairs Committee. Ideological diversity is as important as...

Ten years ago, the scattered members of the classics department -- all four of us, dispersed in the departments of history, English, and modern languages -- were finally given a distinct physical locus on campus. After eighteen years in the English department, I moved two buildings away to my new office. Of course, the student pickings these days are slim for specialists in Greek and Latin, so the classics faculty justify their existence by making their department unobtrusive, inexpensive, and useful. In addition to the Latin and Greek and ancient studies, each of us teaches "core" classes of relatively high...

Academics Flee From Diversity Debate By Peter WoodFrontPageMagazine.com | March 11, 2003 In early February, the debate club at Colby College in Waterville, Maine invited me to debate the role of "diversity" in higher education with, they hoped, the president of the College, William Adams, who likes to be called "Bro."  President Adams declined.  So did his vice president, Arnie Yasinski, the “Associate Dean for Intercultural Affairs,” Jeri Roseboro, and the “Coordinator of Multicultural Student Programs and Support,” Bernadette Buchanan.  In all the debate club invited 13 members of the administration and the faculty to debate me.  They all declined. ...