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Professor Resigns as Department Chair Amid Furor Over 9/11 Remarks
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| 1/31/05
| The Associated Press
Posted on 01/31/2005 4:22:22 PM PST by Jean S
DENVER (AP) - A University of Colorado professor who provoked a furor when he compared victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks to Nazis resigned as a department chairman Monday but will retain his teaching job, the university said.
In an essay written after the Sept. 11 attacks, Ward Churchill said the World Trade Center victims were "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who organized Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews. Churchill also spoke of the "gallant sacrifices" of the "combat teams" that struck America.
The essay attracted little attention until Churchill was invited recently to speak at Hamilton College, about 40 miles east of Syracuse, N.Y. Hundreds of relatives of Sept. 11 victims have protested the appearance. Hamilton College President Joan Hinde has said that "however repugnant one might find Mr. Churchill's remarks," the college was committed to his right of free speech and would not rescind its invitation.
Administrators have moved Churchill's appearance to a building that can seat 2,000, instead of the originally planned 300.
Churchill resigned as chairman of Colorado's Ethnic Studies Department, telling university officials in a letter that "the present political climate has rendered me a liability in terms of representing either my department, the college, or the university."
University officials welcomed the move.
"While Professor Churchill has the constitutional right to express his political views, his essay on 9/11 has outraged and appalled us and the general public," interim CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano said.
AP-ES-01-31-05 1903EST
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: academia; americahaters; hamiltoncollege; radicalleftists; resignation; ucolorado; wardchurchill
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To: Tamar1973
actually, you're pretty close to the mark.
churchill is an indian activist, and he and russell means of south dakota, went to meet gaddafi in libya to form a political alliance between libya and the sioux nation.
about 1990.
this was before gaddafi's recent turn towards the west.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:37:25 PM PST
by
ken21
(baba boxer + ted kennedy = nuf 2 make u wanna puke)
To: popdonnelly
By not firing him outright (or at least demoting him to "perpetual sabbatical"), the university is agreeing with his tripe. There's no other way to look at it.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:38:13 PM PST
by
Rutles4Ever
(This is my tagline.)
To: popdonnelly
It takes incredible intellectual arrogance to call all of them "little Eichmanns". All because they were "capitalists" too. .....as if Eichmann and capitalism are even remotely related.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:39:02 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: JesseJane
A University of Colorado professor who provoked a furor when he compared victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks to Nazis resigned as a department chairman Monday but will retain his teaching job The University should have fired him, as he doesn't deserve a teaching job
To: maine-iac7
AIM??? Doesn't that stand for A--holes In Moccassins?
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:40:20 PM PST
by
E.Allen
To: Marguerite; JeanS
The University should have fired him, as he doesn't deserve a teaching job He doesn't even deserve a job as a janitor.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:41:07 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Andrew Heyward's got to go!)
To: drt1
Thanks. I hope I can be excused for my error. I just jumped to conclusions because they didn't teach ethnics when I went to school. We'd never even heard of it. We taught civics.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:41:14 PM PST
by
Cornpone
(Aging Warrior -- Aim High -- Who Dares Wins)
To: JeanS
......"the present political climate has rendered me a liability in terms of representing either my department, the college, or the university"..... Don't forget about as a member of the Human Race.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:42:00 PM PST
by
DoctorMichael
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: E.Allen
AIM??? Doesn't that stand for A--holes In Moccassins? Association of Injuns and Marxists
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:42:20 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: JeanS
This nutjob is responsible for teaching young minds?
Disturbing.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:43:10 PM PST
by
Tempest
(Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
To: JeanS
Administrators have moved Churchill's appearance to a building that can seat 2,000, instead of the originally planned 300. So they think MORE people are going to see this guy? I guess maybe the leftists will turn out for him. Does anyone have a link to his original essay?
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:44:40 PM PST
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: Marguerite
No doubt in my mind the ONLY reason he is *ehhhh* retiring is MONEY. Whether the school is privately funded or not, MONEY/CASHOLA/HAMILTONS/SMACKAROONIES/ would be the ONLY reason a liberal coven would shoo out one of it's own.. but I'll add this... I'm betting he's getting a BIG under the table payoff to leave. (Noooooooooo, I''m not wearing tinfoil...hehe)
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:44:54 PM PST
by
JesseJane
(KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders, yes, recently.That's not your business, it's mine.)
To: JeanS
As disgusting as this academic is, I still support him to make an @$$ of himself wit his lamebrain remarks.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:45:53 PM PST
by
Maigrey
("... I will stand in front of the box to put my heart in it." - Mohammed from Iraq the Blog)
To: Cornpone
Yeah, I understand the error. You, like everyone here, actually thought this college would be teaching something of value rather than engaging in baby sitting a bunch of adolescents during the times between parties. A common mistake made by us older people.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:46:37 PM PST
by
drt1
To: Cornpone
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:47:05 PM PST
by
jackbill
To: Mr. Mojo
Here's hoping the alumni express their disapproval of Hamilton College's invitation, by withholding their pledges.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:50:07 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
(I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie)
To: Maigrey
Subversion during a time of war is a punishable offense. His comments were intended to incite hatred of Americans, and promote actions against our government. It may fall within the Federal Anti-Sabotage act, especially if he was disseminating materials to promote his friggin point of view. He of course can hold that opinion as a private individual, but to promote it to incite is aiding and abetting our enemies. Sorry.. no dice.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:53:24 PM PST
by
JesseJane
(KERRY: I have had conversations with leaders, yes, recently.That's not your business, it's mine.)
To: Rodney King
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:55:08 PM PST
by
sassbox
To: Patton@Bastogne
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:55:13 PM PST
by
Faraday
To: Cosmo
good point. this resignation is no punishment at all for Prof Churchill. He'll now have more time to teach (ie, indoctrinate), more time to write traitorous essays, and will probably get more speaking engagements too. UC should've fired him, but it's hard to do that to a tenured prof. Not to mention that most of the liberals at UC probably agreed with Churchill silently.
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posted on
01/31/2005 4:58:17 PM PST
by
sassbox
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