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BOULDER, Colo. — A woman who was shown in a video making racist comments toward University of Colorado Boulder students was arrested Friday, according to police. The CU Boulder Police Department says 33-year-old Rebekah Krajacic was booked into the Boulder County Jail on a misdemeanor harassment charge. Police were notified that Krajacic was in the library in the Benson Earth Sciences building Friday. Officers responded and arrested her. According to police, Krajacic made the racist comments in the Engineering Center on Sunday. “She was using racial slurs against a person of color,” said Scott Pribble, spokesman for CU Boulder police....

Phil Mitchell wants his job back. For 17 years, the University of Colorado graduate taught courses in U.S. history and Western Civilization at his alma mater in Boulder, earning some of the highest student evaluation scores in the school's history. But earlier this year, university officials began nitpicking Mitchell's teaching methods and questioning his pedagogical ability. In June, the star instructor received official notice that CU was terminating his employment. Why? Mitchell calls the move "an outrageous injustice clearly motivated by religious bigotry." Unlike the overwhelming majority of his colleagues, he is a politically and theologically conservative Christian—and an outspoken...

DENVER (AP) A public relations consultant who helped Indiana University during a seven-month controversy over former basketball coach Bob Knight is now working for the University of Colorado Board of Regents. Christopher Simpson of Williamsburg, Virginia, will initially be paid 24-thousand dollars, plus 350-dollars an hour for any follow-up work. Simpson will help the Regents cope with the fallout from a football recruiting scandal, and the controversy surrounding ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill. Simpson says he hopes to shift the focus of C-U's image away from controversy. Simpson is a former Washington Times reporter and was vice president of communications...

The course was taught by Assistant Professor Robert Dunkley, who is still with UNC as an Assistant Professor in the newly-formed Criminal Justice Department. The course is now offered through the Criminal Justice Department, as opposed to Sociology, which may explain why some members of the media failed to find it listed among the current course offerings in the Sociology Department at UNC. Taken from the 2002-2003 UNC Course Catalog, the course description is as follows: "SOC 346 - Criminology. Prerequisite: SOC 100 or equivalent. Survey criminal behavior generally, including theories of causation, types of crime, extent of crime, law...

The governor of Colorado yesterday called for the resignation of the University of Colorado professor under fire for comparing the victims of the 9-11 World Trade Center terror attacks to Nazis while praising the suicide hijackers for their "gallant sacrifices." Gov. Bill Owens sent the letter to the president of the University of Colorado College Republicans, Isaiah Lechowit, who was scheduled to read it at a rally in opposition to professor Ward Churchill. "All decent people, whether Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, should denounce the views of Ward Churchill," wrote Owens. "Not only are his writings outrageous and insupportable,...

BOULDER, Colo. -- Suspended Colorado coach Gary Barnett called the investigation of alleged sexual assaults by recruits a test of the football team's resolve, a "bump in the road." n letters sent to recruits and team supporters, Barnett also wrote that the situation would help define the team's legacy, the Daily Camera reported Monday. The 11 letters dated Feb. 11 were among the more than 10,000 pages of documents made public by the university last week in response to media requests for correspondence involving the team. The school omitted the names of the recipients, saying rules do not allow universities...

A woman who reported being raped by a University of Colorado football player says an athletic department official offered her a letter of apology from the player after a meeting at which she was discouraged from pressing charges by coach Gary Barnett. The woman said through her lawyer that although she later received a letter from the player, the real reason she did not continue the criminal case was because of "intimidation" by Barnett. That included, the woman said, the coach telling her he would not punish the player and would support him if she pursued criminal charges. "I'm not...

<p>The problem with the tawdry course of events at the University of Colorado is this: Taking Gary Barnett out of the equation is not a victory. It's a sacrifice. The problem does not magically disappear once Colorado's football coach goes away.</p>

don't believe we learn from the past. I used to, but I don't anymore. I've seen the past re-enacted enough times now to know that if we were going to learn anything from the stupidities of yore, for one thing, we sure wouldn't still have canned peas. Or take the University of Colorado. By now, you most certainly are aware of the sexual abuse, violence, drinking issues and general immorality attached to the Colorado football program. As I write this, six women have come forward with accusations of rape or near-rape by Buffaloes players, recruiting parties at the school are...

OULDER, Colo., Feb. 19 — The University of Colorado football program has long been a world apart in this famously idiosyncratic city nestled against the Rocky Mountains. The Buffaloes could be worshiped or reviled, but both in their triumphs and failures, residents say, the team was a distinct and separate subculture behind the well-guarded walls of its sports kingdom on the hill. In the last few weeks, however, as accusations of rape and alcohol-laced misconduct within the football recruiting program have rippled across the campus and beyond, those walls have begun to crumble, students, faculty members and residents say. On...

University of Colorado football coach Gary Barnett could save his job if he proves that his program is not hostile to women, CU president Betsy Hoffman said Thursday. Barnett "could be on the sidelines this fall," Hoffman said, pending a report by an independent committee investigating allegations that the school used sex and alcohol to lure recruits. The university is defending itself against lawsuits filed by three women who say they were sexually assaulted during or after a party attended by CU recruits and football players in December 2001. In addition, former CU place-kicker Katie Hnida says she was raped...

<p>Police said Thursday they are investigating whether a woman was raped by a University of Colorado football player after leaving a bar in 2002 -- the seventh allegation of its kind to surface since 1997.</p> <p>"This was a particularly brutal case," Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner said. The alleged victim said she was sodomized.</p>

What exactly does it take to get fired at Colorado? The count is now five women who allege Colorado football players have sexually assaulted them over the past four years, four in the past 28 months. Three have filed civil suits against the school. One is so scared of repercussions that she refuses to name her assailant or file charges. At a lot of other schools, Gary Barnett might already have been fired by now.(AP) What began with titters (Colorado is the Princeton Review's No. 1 party school) is now a horror with seemingly no end. The whole mess began...

Two more women, including former University of Colorado placekicker Katie Hnida, have alleged they were sexually assaulted by CU football players. Hnida's rape allegations were detailed in a magazine column published Tuesday. The other woman complained to police more than a year ago, Boulder District Attorney Mary Keenan told The Denver Post. Neither woman has pursued charges, Keenan said. Without formal charges, she cannot investigate their claims, she said. Previously, two women have said in federal lawsuits against CU that they were sexually assaulted during a December 2001 party attended by football players and recruits. A third has said in...

<p>If you thought Colorado football recruiting parties were jailbreaks, brace yourself for the allegations made by the only woman ever to play on the team.</p> <p>As a CU placekicker in 1999, Katie Hnida says she endured a kind of sexual hell you can't imagine. After being verbally abused and molested by teammates, Hnida says, she was raped by one of them.</p>

Someone or some people are going to have to go at Colorado. It seems inevitable. A scandal of this magnitude does not pass without a head on a stick being paraded through the village. He/she/they have wronged us. Here is the result of his/her/their impudence. Attila the Hun, meet Gary the Barnett. This is not to say that Colorado's football coach should or will get fired in the still-evolving recruiting scandal at CU (Flatirongate?). But let's just say that it doesn't pay to be a lightning rod these days in the foothills. Barnett and his boss, athletic director Dick Tharp,...

The task force that NCAA president Myles Brand formed Thursday to review recruiting rules may recommend new standards by late April. But can a task force do what common sense, decency and accountability apparently can't? “There are moments when an organization discovers that behavior has overwhelmed value-based policy,” Brand said. “When that happens, the organization must be nimble enough to respond quickly and get back on the right path.” All this, of course, is in response to the ongoing revelations about Colorado's football recruiting “tactics.” Last week, coach Gary Barnett suspended four Colorado players for infractions involving the admitted use...

A former University of Colorado football recruiting employee admits he hired a prostitute and called adult chat lines but says he did it only for himself, not for CU athletes or high school recruits. Former administrative assistant Nathan Maxcey, 28, made the admission Friday after CU announced it had uncovered proof that Maxcey used a cellphone assigned to him to make an undisclosed number of the calls between June 2002 and July 2003. One of the calls occurred just days before a handful of recruits was to arrive for a campus visit, according to head football coach Gary Barnett. The...

Calling allegations arising from recent college sports recruiting scandals "morally reprehensible," NCAA president Myles Brand on Thursday announced the formation of a task force to establish tougher standards. "Given the information that is coming to light on some recruiting practices, I am taking immediate action to address the issue," Brand said. The NCAA leader said he is responding because of allegations at Colorado and other universities. Colorado has been accused by Boulder County District Attorney Mary Keenan of using sex and alcohol to recruit athletes. CU head football coach Gary Barnett, athletic director Dick Tharp and president Betsy Hoffman have...

The University of Colorado is willing to consider changes to its athletic recruiting policies to resolve three lawsuits brought by former students alleging they were raped during or after a 2001 party attended by CU football players and recruits, university president Betsy Hoffman said Wednesday. "If all they want is change and they don't want any money involved ... if they were willing to drop their lawsuit, we would be willing to sit down and talk with them about change," Hoffman said. University officials have made such an offer "repeatedly," she said, but with no success. "They would have to...