Radical chic: Strike a pose.........VOGUE!
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
They've had several drinking deaths, unsurprising since the school has a reputation for being a party school.
And now this.
I cannot imagine a parent choosing a place such as this to entrust their child.
Radical chic: Strike a pose.........VOGUE!
There's probably very little the university president can do. If Churchill is (was) a department chair, he's almost certainly tenured, meaning that he could bring that AK-47 he posed with in that photo on his website into his classroom, gun down all the students, and still keep his job.
Three of them were Hamilton alumni. A fourth was the father of a current student.
It takes incredible intellectual arrogance to call all of them "little Eichmanns".
Absolutely. And even more to invite this lowlife and his wife (an activist of similar leanings) to present their hate-the-hand-that-feeds-you venom at Hamilton.
Churchill is nothing but raw sewage....
Come in My Home and exercise your free speech. It comes down to , Is America Our Home.
As long as he didn't say anything critical of Islam or homosexuals.
I am assuming that this peckerwood is protected by tenure. The university would have a hard time firing him if he was convicted of almost any felony.
The concept of tenure was put in place to protect the right of free speech for professor's who might say something in dissent of any given issue. It is a broad based and very powerful system, and guys like Churchill know it. That's why they're not afraid to make statements as asinine as the statement Churchill made.
What's the solution? Damned if I know. Someone suggested tar and feathers, rotten apples, etc. My own personal method would be to make sure that my child is not enrolled in any of his classes. If no students showed up for Churchill's lectures, he would have a hard time "learning" anyone anything.
I remember the scene but this joker ain't worth the trouble...
I thought Lefties like this traitor were opposed to 2nd Amendment rights.
Does he want to apologize for being part of a tribe that owned slaves and fought for the Confederacy? What's he got to say about that?
How trendy, a legal AK. What does this hoople think he is, CHE LITE?
Does this mean he'll be getting his pay cut? I doubt it. Plus does he even have a PhD, you usually need one to be a department chairman.
<< I thought lefties like this elitist traitor were opposed to 2nd Amendment rights. >>
Of course they are.
But only for you and me.
*LOL*
Naw. This is a Malcom X, "by any means necessary", "I'm a hard-core-dude, Dude", pose.
The basic problem is not this jackass. It is the completely intellectually and morally bankrupt administration that enables this psychopath.
Agree. What on Earth can this Sociopath have to teach anyone and what rationale does the College use to justify his continued presence other than the morally bankrupt 'Diversity of Views' argument?
His message is not only incoherent it appeals to the lowest regions of the Human Condition - Something I would think any serious Educator would do their best to keep out of the classroom, not exalt it with pay and a Chairmanship of a department. What next, Charles Manson teaching Modern American Mind(less) Control?
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