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Breitbart News spoke with David Meany, the person in charge of media relations at Eastern Washington University (EWU), where Rachel Dolezal was listed as a professor of Africana Studies. He said Dolezal’s contract with EWU expired June 12th and she is “no longer an employee of Eastern Washington University.”

Boise State has its infamous "Smurf Turf," and Nebraska has what it likes to call the "Sea of Red" to describe the vast crowd inside Lincoln's Memorial Stadium. As of next fall, though, neither of them will have anything on I-AA Eastern Washington, which announced plans Wednesday to install an actual field of red: Taking a cue from Boise State's famous blue turf, Eastern Washington is planning to install an artificial red playing surface inside its football stadium. The Big Sky program's official school colors are red and white. Former EWU star Michael Roos, now in the NFL with the...

Hundreds of students and faculty rallied at Eastern Washington University Thursday, as they called on EWU President Steven Jordan to re-invite controversial speaker Ward Churchill to campus. They want Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado, to speak about Native American activism. In controversial remarks, Churchill has compared some 9/11 victims to nazi bureaucrats. EWU says the security concerns are too great to invite him. Critics say they do not like his message and they do not want their tax dollars spent to bring him to campus. Supporters say his remarks have been taken out of...

Churchill still set to speak, says Almeida By Thomas Coghlan, News Assistant March 01, 2005 University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill will be coming to speak during Native American Awareness Week April 5, said Deirdre Almeida, director of the American Indian Studies program, at the Feb. 28 Senate Faculty meeting. “As far as the Native American Student Association and the Native American Studies Program, he was still invited to come and be part of American Indian Awareness Week. And as far as the students go, they plan to pick him up April 4, because he speaks on April 5, at...