Free Republic

Hamilton College believes that open-ended and free inquiry is essential to educational growth. As our Faculty Handbook says, “The right to search for truth, to express both popular and unpopular opinions, and to criticize existing beliefs and institutions, is the foundation of intellectual life in a democratic society.” Last summer, Ward Churchill, Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, was invited to campus by the Kirkland Project to give a lecture on February 3 about prisons and Native American rights. After the invitation was extended by the Kirkland Project and accepted by Churchill, statements he had made about...

At Hamilton College... you can take... "Resistance Memoirs: Writing, Identity and Change."... Its teacher is Susan Rosenberg, formerly of the Weather Underground. ...Its self-described revolutionaries, mostly middle-class, dedicated themselves to supporting radical black causes and tearing apart American society in the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1970, they blew up a townhouse when a bomb detonated prematurely and killed a few of their troops. Kathy Boudin, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and other high-profile members of the group spent the next decade or so running from the police and, some of them, continuing to pursue careers in criminal violence.... So why...