CA: Controversial professor to speak at Cal ('Hot Wadd' Churchill and the little eichmanns tour)

SFgate.com ^ | 3/26/05 | Charles Burress

[NormsRevenge]

Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who provoked a national tempest by referring to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as "little Eichmanns," has been invited to speak at UC Berkeley on Monday.

Churchill will be featured speaker at a noon public forum on academic freedom and the furor ignited by his views.

"I am pleased to invite Professor Churchill to the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in higher education," said panel organizer Ling-chi Wang, an associate professor of ethnic studies at Cal. "He will present his case for the first time to the Berkeley community."

Churchill, an ethnic studies professor who sees recent decades of U.S. policy in the Middle East as responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, compared the civilian employees of the World Trade Center to the "good Germans" who supported and benefited from Hitler's brutal regime. His "little Eichmanns" comment referred to Adolf Eichmann, who organized the rounding up of Jews for Nazi death camps.

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Roiled by the ensuing uproar, the University of Colorado at Boulder announced Thursday that Churchill's views are protected by the First Amendment but that it will conduct a formal investigation of charges against him of "research misconduct" including plagiarism and fabrication and of misrepresenting himself as a Native American.

Among those calling for him to be fired is Colorado Gov. Bill Owens.

UC Berkeley's dean of arts and humanities, Ralph Hexter, who will be on the Monday panel, said, "My position is to go extremely far in hearing what people have to say even if I disagree with it quite passionately. If there is any place possible for this to occur, it should be on a university campus."

[NormsRevenge]

RFK Jr. environmental czar spoke a few week ago, now Wadd..

Yup, Ya get a 'real' education in the UC system.

[bilhosty]

Getting all of this publicity was the best thing that could of happened to this idiot. He is making the most of it.

[starfish923]

Ralph Hexter
Ralphie Boy! Big mistake.

[llevrok]

So Wadd and RFK-Jr (with his whiney, drug dead voice) are OK but military recruiters are not.

So much for a "balanced" education.

[ColdWarNavyVet_dirsup]

"If there is any place possible for this to occur, it should be on a university campus"

which is why our education has slipped so far down compared to other countries... we allow totally whacked out social "scientists" a viable forum for their crap.

[Maceman]

The littlest Eichmann

4-year old Juliana McCourt and her mother Ruth. Both died on flight 175 on Septemeber 11.

[Lelu]

He is exercising his right to free speech. Should we not embrace pluralism and receive ALL views including those that are controversial especially in an educational environment? Isn't that the point of getting a higher education? Being informed and educated on ideas and knowledge that we have never heard? What happens when we listen and learn from others? Empathy and compassion...awareness...the greatest knowledge.

[506trooper]

Welcome to FR

Lelu
Since Mar 26, 2005

[Condor51]

Your stay here will be short TROLL. It's..

ZOT Time!

[LS]

As a professor, I am extremely sensitive to anyone wanting to limit "free speech," especially in a genuine classroom setting.

However, there are limits as to what can be regurgitated out as "facts." For instance, does anyone really want a geography prof on ANY U.S. campus espousing "flat earth" theories?

Is there really room for any pre-Newtonian/pre-Galileo view of the earth as the center of the universe? Of course not, because these are ideas demonstrably proven to be false.

On those grounds, Churchill should be given the heave-ho: he is esposing as fact views demonstrably proven to be looney.

Indeed, I anger my colleagues by arguing that Marxism should NEVER be taught on exactly such grounds---that it is as wrong as "flat earth," and that teaching it is a lie.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

Sure. We should always be aware of who and where the nuts are. I just don't agree that a university has to pay his salary for voicing his views. This guy hates America and Americans, so I wonder how you would feel about a KKK grand wizard being on the university payroll to spout his hatred of certain sections of the American populace.

Signed up today just to say that, eh? I smell troll!

[cardinal4]

UC Berkeley's dean of arts and humanities, Ralph Hexter, who will be on the Monday panel, said, "My position is to go extremely far in hearing what people have to say even if I disagree with it quite passionately. If there is any place possible for this to occur, it should be on a university campus."

I guess Rush Limbaugh's invite will be forthcoming, right?

[Drango]

Ping list please...

Anyone wanna join me for a counter FReep?

[NormsRevenge]

lol.. Welcome to FR (probably again)

Is there no limit to the blind adoration that some have for FR? They seem drawn like moths to the flame.

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Re: your multitude of questions, you're full of 'em, btw. ;-)

While you sing Kumbaya with the elitists and esteemed products of a perverted higher education system,, , your enemies will be looting your wares and raping yur kinfolk and stealing your livestock, kind of like what Wadd says we did to the Native Americans.

Oh yeah,, Welcome Back. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

The price of living in a FRee society is always needing to be ready to confront evil and those who spread it thru vile acts and words in cahoots with a witting, and some might say, unwitting media and amidst masses of "high"er educated easily influenced folks.

Academia is fine, but be responsible. I agree.


Thanks!

[NormsRevenge]

fyi..

'Hot Wadd' Churchill is coming to BeZerkeley!

[NormsRevenge]

fyi.. (try that again) :)

'Hot Wadd' Churchill is coming to BeZerkeley!

[SpinyNorman]

More on Wang, who seems to be big on the "there are no Chinese spies in the American government labs" argument:

A flyer on a talk:

Please join us at a Brown-Bag Talk



The Society of Professional Scientists and Engineers (SPSE) invites all employees to a talk and discussion by



Professor L. Ling-chi Wang
Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies,
Director of Asian American Studies,
University of California, Berkeley.



Model Minority, High-tech Coolies, and Spies:
Asian Americans in Science & Technology with
Special Reference to the Case of Dr. Wen Ho Lee



Thursday, 27 April 2000
12:00 Noon - 1:00 P.M.
Building 361 (Bio-Med), 1140 Auditorium



Professor Wang recently authored the Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education (APAHE) resolution, calling upon all Asian American scientists and engineers not to apply for jobs at the national labs. With this call, APAHE protests against the treatment of Dr. Wen Ho Lee and against the use of racial profiling and discrimination at the labs.


Professor Wang insists on having an open discussion with Lab employees about the concerns of "racial profiling" raised by the Wen Ho Lee case. SPSE feels that Prof. Wang's visit will be an excellent contribution to our recent "diversity stand-down."

For additional information, contact: SPSE Office, 449-4846
Visit the SPSE web site at http://www.spse.org

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From the SanFran Chronicle:
For the full article, see http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/27/MN223045.DTL


"Wang has done plenty of that but in his own soft-spoken way. The 63-year- old coordinator of the Asian American studies program at the University of California at Berkeley has been called the "Asian Martin Luther King" for his four decades of activism.

Now he appears to be on the brink of winning his toughest challenge yet -- improving the lot of Asian American scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and the nation's other weapons research facilities.

Wang is no stranger to big causes. He successfully fought for bilingual education in San Francisco in the '70s, the establishment of an ethnic studies department at UC Berkeley in the early '90s and revised height requirements for San Francisco police and firefighters."

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From the Berkeley ethnic studies page:



L. Ling-chi Wang, born and raised in Xiamen, Fujian, China and Hong Kong. B.A. (Music), Hope College, Holland, Michigan; B.D. (Old Testament), Princeton Seminary; M.A. (Semitic Languages & Literature), UC Berkeley.

"Lau vs. Nichols: History of a Struggle for Equal and Quality Education," Counterpoint: Perspectives of Asian American, edited by Emma Gee. (Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1976). Also in Educational Experience of Asian Americans: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Students, edited by Don Nakanishi. (New York: Routledge, 1994).

"Meritocracy and Diversity in Higher Education: Discrimination against Asian Americans in the Post-Bakke Era," The Urban Review, March 1988.

Liang Tiao He di Yitu (The Statement of Two Rivers), co-editors, Henry Zhao and Sau-ling Wong. (Shanghai, 1990). A Chinese translation of Chinese American poetry.

Chinese American Poetry: An Anthology, co-editor, Henry Zhao. (Santa Barbara, 1991).

"Roots and Changing Identity of the Chinese in the United States," Daedalus, Vol. 120, No. 2 (1991); also in The Living Tree: The Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today, edited by TuWei-ming. (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1994).

"Racism and the Model Minority: Asian Americans in Higher Education," co-author Sucheng Chan in The Racial Crisis in American Higher Education, edited by Philip G. Altbach and Kofi Lomotey. (New York: SUNY Press, 1991).

Concise Bibliography of Overseas Chinese. (Berkeley: Asian American Studies, 1992).

"Politics of the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Laws," Proceedings of the 50th Anniversary of the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Laws, edited by Marlon Hom and Laureen Dong. (San Francisco: Chinese Historical Society and Asian American Studies, CSU-SF, 1994).

"Meiguo Huaren di Gen he Texing Bianhua," Huaren Yuekan, Feb., March & April 1994.

"Justice Is Stonewalled: The Murder of Henry Liu: A Taiwanese Hit: A Taiwanese Hit," Silenced: The Unsolved Murders of Immigrant Journalists in the U.S., edited by the Committee to Protect Journalists. (New York: Committee to Protect Journalists, 1994).

Research interests: Asian American history, Asian American civil rights issues; Overseas Chinese; U.S. foreign policies in Asia; bilingual education; and Asian Americans in higher education.