Posted on 01/27/2005 5:59:47 AM PST by Former Dodger
CLINTON, N.Y. (AP) - An upstate college is being criticized for scheduling a speaker who has compared victims of the September Eleventh terrorist attacks to one of the Nazi architects of the Holocaust. Ward Churchill will take part in a panel discussion at Hamilton College, near Utica, on February third.
Churchill, who's an American Indian, is head of the ethnic studies program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The day after September Eleventh, 2001, Churchill wrote an essay in which he said the victims of the terrorist attacks weren't innocent bystanders and he compared them to Nazi Adolf Eichmann, a key figure in carrying out the Holocaust.
Churchill's scheduled appearance at Hamilton has outraged some students and faculty. One professor says it's "morally outrageous" to invite Churchill to the college. Organizers of the lecture series says allowing diverse viewpoints to be presented on campus is what academic institutions are supposed to do.
"If there was a better, more effective way of visiting some penalty...upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting...the Twin Towers, I'd be interested in hearing about it....They were civilians of a sort,...But innocent? Gimme a break."
His appearance is being funded by "The Kirkland Project", a college-funded program that was harshly criticized last fall for its role in hiring 1960's radical Susan Rosenberg. Rosenbereg was linked to a deadly 1981 armored-car robbery and served 16 years in prison for possessing 600 pounds of explosives. She quit before she started teaching in December.
Sanctimonious pig....
LOONY LEFT PING!!!
Other links:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68205
http://www.speakersandartists.org/People/WardChurchill.html
http://www.satyamag.com/apr04/churchill.html
His home page: http://www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=62
enough said.
Like to see him confronted by Elie Weissel...
From the University of Colorado web site:
Ward L Churchill
Ethnic Studies
University of Colorado at Boulder
339 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0339
Ward.Churchill@Colorado.EDU
Office: 303-492-8852
Faculty Information
Official Title: Professor, Chair
Department: Ethnic Studies
Office Address
Mailing Address: 339 UCB
Thanks for the ping.
The Peoples' Republic of Boulder has turned out some real gems.
Don't even get me started!
You mean Ted Kacsynzki (sp) is INNOCENT? Or that he had a partner...?
Hmmmm?
Let me know when this college invites Ann Coulter, Ward Connerly, Ted Nugent, or any other outspoken conservative.
Really? Wonder how many conservative viewpoints have been featured lately?
Naaah.
Just that if Big Chief there can make an over-the-top comparison, so can I.
Mission Statement
THE KIRKLAND PROJECT for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture is an on-campus organization committed to social justice, focusing on issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, as well as other facets of human diversity. By sponsoring a lecture series, curricular initiatives, student research and community work, and faculty development seminars, the Kirkland Project seeks to provide the integrated, complex, rigorous intellectual analysis and engagement with ideas that is characteristic of a liberal arts education and necessary for social justice movements.
Our Goals are to:
The Kirkland Project is named in honor of Kirkland College, from 1968-78 a college for women coordinate with Hamilton. The Project builds on Kirkland's twin legacies of women's education and innovative pedagogy, expanding on them to meet the global challenges that face contemporary male and female students, faculty and staff.
INFORMATION Robin A. Vanderwall Kirkland Project Assistant Hamilton College . 198 College Hill Road . Clinton, NY 13323 phone: (315) 859-4288 email:rvanderw@hamilton.edu web site: http://academics.hamilton.edu/organizations/kirkland
Maybe they were separated at birth?
'Ethnic Studies' programs are just foxholes for the enemy.
Sick, sick, sick...I hope some kind of protest is planned. This is typical leftist thinking and anyone who thinks he is a lone nut needs to spend more time perusing left wing web sites..if you can stomach it.
You got that right.
I give PJ a lot of credit having to deal with those DU looneys, for his DUmmy FUnnies.
I can't believe what I'm hearing sometimes, and I was born and raise in NYC, where a lot of the DUmmies come from!
Just thought I'd update on Ward Churchill from a "local" perspective.
The press and talk radio have gone crazy here in the Denver/Boulder area demanding this professor be fired.
The fact that this monster has been exposed because of the invitation to speak at this college, shows me that from bad situations, great things can happen.
Let's keep the pressure on!
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