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Hey Colorado Freepers! Announcing a Freep at the CU campus around the Michelle Malkin Speech on March 1st. This event is being organized by the CU republicans GOPCollegeRepublicansThanks so much for your interest in the upcoming event, “The War on Terror.” Michelle Malkin and Dinesh D’Souza will visit the University of Colorado at Boulder on March 1st at 7pm. This event is free, but you do need a ticket to attend. This event is being sponsored by the Cultural Events Board, the University of Colorado Student Union and the College Republicans. For your free tickets, visit the CU Connection in...

Former University of Colorado President Betsy Hoffman "thought long and hard" before hiring a car last year to wait outside a donor dinner in Seattle for several hours, she said this week. The $534 charge criticized by state auditors Tuesday was an unusual circumstance, Hoffman said. The house was hard to find, it was dark and she didn't want to be late. But a Rocky Mountain News review of CU payments to limousine services shows hired drivers idled outside at least 10 events Hoffman attended, from a dinner at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science to the funeral of...

Hoffman has excuses, not answers By David Harsanyi Denver Post Columnist Evidently, Elizabeth Hoffman, former president of the University of Colorado, is unfamiliar with a well-known adage on leadership that goes something like this: "Anyone can steer the Enterprise when the Klingons aren't around." Last week, in a speech that was originally supposed to be titled "Why I Left the University of Colorado," Hoffman, attempted to shed any responsibility for her tenure at CU, rolling out a litany of inane excuses. Let's start with the most comical: Hoffman blamed her controversial "C-word" deposition - my personal favorite CU fiasco -...

A Guide to PirateBallerina Churchilliana Our library of Churchill prevarications, misdirections, and general arcania has grown very large, and, we're afraid, largely unread. As a public service, we offer a refresher course in our coverage of Ward Churchill: We noted back in February that academia would attempt to recast the debate over Churchill as a "freedom of speech" and "academic freedom" issue. And that's what's happened. We compiled a basic Churchill history as well as a chronology of life events to assist readers and researchers alike. We shed light on his scholarly pretentions back in March We were first to...

University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill fabricated historical facts, published the work of others as his own and repeatedly made false claims about two federal Indian laws, a Rocky Mountain News investigation has found. The two-month News investigation, carried out at the same time Churchill and his work are being carefully examined by the university, also unearthed fresh genealogical information that casts new doubts on the professor's long-held assertion that he is of American Indian ancestry. The findings come as Churchill is, essentially, on trial — in the court of public opinion and in the halls of academia. Prickly debates...

Attack of the Churchill Clones By Jacob Laksin and Steven Vincent FrontPageMagazine.com | March 17, 2005 Overwhelming public pressure may have compelled Ward Churchill to resign as chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the Colorado University at Boulder (CU), but the dustup whipped up by the Indian-impostor cum classroom-radical refuses to settle. Witness the antics of the new chair of the department, associate professor Emma Perez. No sooner had news of Churchill’s extremist record come to national attention, than Perez emerged as one of his earliest—and most fanatical—defenders. Writing in the radical leftist web magazine Counterpunch in February 2005,...

THE QUESTION: How someone like Churchill got hired, tenured, elevated. Should a serious research university consider hiring a fascist? This question doesn't have an easy answer. After all, prior to World War II, Europe produced several brilliant political theorists and philosophers who could be characterized as fascists, or proto-fascists, including Joseph de Maistre, Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger. Whether, post-Auschwitz, it's possible even in theory to advocate similar views in intellectually plausible ways is an interesting question. It is not, however, a question that has any relevance to the case of University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill, despite the obvious...

According to the daily independent newspaper of the University of Colorado, the Regents are wanting public input to determine whether to fire or keep Ward Churchill, the professor who said 9/11 was America's fault and compared the victims to Nazis. The Regents clearly want to gauge the level of public anger. Drop them an e-mail...let's fill their inboxes. Contact info for the Regents is directly below contact info for Churchill himself. Ward.Churchill@Colorado.EDU Office: 303-492-8852 REGENTS CONTACT INFO: Jerryrutledge@adelphia.net (the chair) Tommyjclay@aol.com Peter.Steinhauer@colorado.edu Regent.Carlisle@colorado.edu Regent.Hayes@colorado.edu Carrigan@colorado.edu Regent.Bosley@colorado.edu Regent.Schauer@colorado.edu Gail.Schwartz@colorado.edu University of Colorado Dept. of Ethnic Studies: Fax: 303-492-7799 Churchill said this...

The fate of a tenured University of Colorado professor – who compared victims of the 9-11 World Trade Center terror attacks to Nazis, while praising the suicide hijackers for their "gallant sacrifices" – will be decided at a special meeting of the school's board of regents Thursday night. In the meantime, Ward Churchill, who yesterday preemptively stepped down as chairman of the Ethnic Studies Department, remains a professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian Studies at the Colorado school. The controversy stems from an essay Churchill wrote titled "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,"...

In this NBC News interview, “Today” host Katie Couric talks with Katie Hnida, a star high-school athlete who went on to play football for the University of Colorado. But from the beginning, Hnida says, she silently endured a nightmare — some players asked her for sex, others exposed themselves. Worst of all, in the summer of 2000 she says she was raped by a teammate. Couric: When your story broke, Coach Barnett, as you well know, held a press conference in which he said, "She was awful..." Hnida: For me that was the Coach Barnett that I knew. That was...