Ward Churchill Will Speak At New School [School President Bob Kerrey]

The New York Sun ^ | December 6, 2006 | By CHANNING JOSEPH,Staff Reporter of the Sun

[aculeus]

A professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Ward Churchill — who ignited a national furor with his description of some of the World Trade Center employees killed on September 11, 2001, as "little Eichmanns" — is scheduled to speak Monday in New York at the New School.

At the invitation of the New School's Women of Color student group, which is funding the event from the university's student fees, Mr. Churchill will give a talk titled "Sterilizing History: The Fabrication of ‘Innocent Americans,'" in which he will discuss ... the history of native cultures. Mr. Churchill is a self-described American Indian — though his ancestry has recently been called into question — and his academic work has largely focused on America's treatment of indigenous peoples and political dissidents.

Mr. Churchill's own political views have prompted condemnation from prominent public figures, including Governor Pataki, who has referred to Mr. Churchill as a "bigoted terrorist supporter," and Governor Owens of Colorado, who has said some of Mr. Churchill's statements are "treasonous."

The event's planners say they are not afraid of the criticism and are touting Mr. Churchill's speech as "a rare and historic appearance."

"Those of us students organizing this historic evening are not afraid of controversy as we stand firm in our support of academic freedom and Mr. Churchill's outstanding contributions and analyses," New School student Jeremy Syrop, 20, told The New York Sun in an e-mail.

The New School's president, Robert Kerrey, is a former senator from Nebraska who served on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Mr. Kerrey said he was initially unaware of the scheduled speech until he received a request to be interviewed for this article. He then had to look into it himself before he responded, he said.

[veronica]

This country has gone mad. It's beyond depressing.

[Long Island Pete]

I wonder if he will get shouted down and made to leave the stage because of rude and boarish behavior on the part of the audience. Oh, I forgot, conservatives wouldnt do that sort of thing.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The left is totally crazy.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

What's a degree from that august institution worth? and what's the tuition?

[YellowRoseofTx]

"Those of us students organizing this historic evening are not afraid of controversy as we stand firm in our support of academic freedom and Mr. Churchill's outstanding contributions and analyses,"

There are just too many things to say about this one sentence alone.............

[mad puppy]

U.S. Military forces are simply too good to allow any type of military take over. Imploding in upon ourselves was the only way and the progress being made recently is nothing short of stunning.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

At least he will be among friends....on the Loony Liberal Island of Manhattan. :0)

[Alas Babylon!]

Those of us students organizing this historic evening are not afraid of controversy as we stand firm in our support of academic freedom and Mr. Churchill's outstanding contributions and analyses," New School student Jeremy Syrop, 20, told The New York Sun in an e-mail.

So I can assume from your statement, Jeremey, that you'd support Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter coming to speak some evening?

[rabscuttle385]

"The New School is a legendary, progressive university comprising eight schools bound by a common, unusual intent: to prepare and inspire its 9,300 undergraduate and graduate students to bring actual, positive change to the world. From its Greenwich Village campus, The New School launches economists and actors, fashion designers and urban planners, dancers and anthropologists, orchestra conductors, filmmakers, political scientists, organizational experts, jazz musicians, scholars, psychologists, historians, journalists, and above all, world citizens-individuals whose ideas and innovations forge new paths of progress in the arts, design, humanities, public policy, and the social sciences. In addition to its 70 graduate and undergraduate degree-granting programs, the university offers certificate programs and more than 1,000 continuing education courses to 25,000 adult learners every year."

(www.newschool.edu)

Basically it's a "progressive" (liberal) school teaching such things as "social research," general studies, liberal arts, etc. It's in Greenwich Village, and it emphases citizenship of the world over America. Sounds like a moonbat indoctrination center. Believe me, nobody will boo; the folks there will all be cheering and clapping.

[rabscuttle385]

See Post 10. The New School is really just another campus of Moonbat University.

[yldstrk]

That ought to be real titillating.

[Long Island Pete]

Sounds like the perfect place for a smart bomb.

[Beth528]

This jerk shouldn't even be allowed to walk on our planet..Remember this..
Churchill blurtung out a joke regarding what he perceived as the hilarity over how passengers on the 9/11 flights were "easily" hijacked by terrorists and flown into the World Trade Center. "You do remember, the incident which the terrorists overpowered the stewardess on the aircraft and tweezed her eyebrows with his tweezers, until she screamingly submitted to fly the plane into a building remember that one?" Joked Churchill. "

[popdonnelly]

The New School gives Churchill left-wing life support. Next, they'll give him a full professorship. The political left at our colleges has always had a fondness for liars and charlatans. They like one of their own.

[freespirited]

The New School is really just another campus of Moonbat University.

It's not much of an exaggeration to say they're all Moonbat U these days.

[ConservativeDude]

There are no conservatives at New School, either. So that definitely won't happen.

[ConservativeDude]

It's depressing that north of 9K people attend this Maoist indoctrination center. And we wonder why the left is entrenched.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

I can think of one positive thing to say:

At least most of the students will never breed.