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In recent years, Hamilton College has done little that would have pleased its namesake. It's hard to imagine that any of the founding generation's leaders—perhaps excepting Paine—could find much to their liking in the college's fawning treatment of radical icons or its fervent multiculturalism. It was Hamilton that sought to bring former weather underground member and convicted terrorist, Susan Rosenberg, to campus as an instructor and "artist-in-residence", as it was Hamilton that launched Ward Churchill into world class notoriety by inviting him to speak. But it's good to discover that Hamilton is capable of learning something from its repeated embarrassments....

University of Colorado Professor Ward Churchill has drawn widespread public attention before for brash statements he made about 9/11 victims in an essay he wrote following the terrorist attacks in 2001, when he compared those who died in that attack to the Nazi Adolf Eichmann. The controversial essay went fairly unnoticed until January 2005, when it came up before a scheduled speech at Hamilton College. The investigation into allegations of research misconduct and plagiarism ensued shortly after the speech surfaced, in March 2005. The Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of...

Clinton, N.Y. - A professor at a small New York state college has stepped down as a program director after igniting a furor by inviting Ward Churchill, a University of Colorado professor who compared Sept. 11 victims to Nazis, to speak on campus. Nancy Rabinowitz of Hamilton College said she was resigning "under duress" as director of the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture. She will continue to teach comparative literature. Rabinowitz extended an invitation to speak to Churchill, whose essay written shortly after the 2001 attacks compared the World Trade Center victims to "little Eichmanns,"...

An emotionally charged dispute over a $3,500 honorarium has erupted between Hamilton College and a guest lecturer, whose Feb. 3 speech was cancelled after he received death threats for having criticized victims of the Sept. 11 attacks. The college, in Clinton, N.Y., has been rocked by a nationally publicized controversy surrounding the lecturer, Professor Ward L. Churchill of the University of Colorado. It began last summer when the head of a Hamilton academic program sent a speaking invitation to Professor Churchill, offering the $3,500 fee. He signed and returned an acceptance letter. Months later, Hamilton officials learned that Professor Churchill...

Just over a week after the cancellation of Ward Churchill's visit to Hamilton, The Margaret Bundy Scott Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz has announced that she is stepping down as director of the Kirkland Project, effective immediately. Rabinowitz announced her decision in a press release sent to The Spectator late Thursday evening. "Hamilton College finds itself in the midst of a crisis that is deeply rooted in the institution's history and set against a backdrop of increasing political and cultural tension. Much of the resulting media attack has been directed personally at me as Director of the Kirkland...

College Official Resigns Over Speaker Fri Feb 11, 4:42 PM ET U.S. National - AP CLINTON, N.Y. - The head of a gender studies program at Hamilton College has resigned after igniting a furor by inviting to the campus a professor who likened the Sept. 11 victims to Nazis. Nancy Rabinowitz said she was stepping down "under duress" as director of the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture. She will continue to teach comparative literature. Rabinowitz resigned in a telephone call Thursday to the college's president. On Feb. 3, she extended a speaking invitation to University...

As the sordid controversy of University of Colorado (UC) professor Ward Churchill plays itself out, what is perhaps the most damaging aspect of it has largely escaped notice, campuses' double standard in First Amendment matters. Churchill, as widely reported, compared the World Trade Center victims on 9/11 to Nazis and praised their murderers as "gallant…combat teams." In the ensuing national uproar, Hamilton College in New York, which had invited Churchill to speak, decided to cancel the event, stating it had received threats of violence against Churchill and college officers. The college's president, Joan Hinde Stewart, covered her back with bogus...

Hours after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Ward Churchill compared the victims to the Nazis. A professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he wrote in an essay that those killed at the World Trade Center were not innocent civilians but "little Eichmanns." The analogy is so outrageous, one thinks, that surely he immediately got into trouble. Surely it prompted angry letters and calls for him to be fired. But it didn't. Instead, for years the comparison just sat there quietly. Mr. Churchill, by contrast, rarely stays still. He has spoken on more than...

You know a professor has run into trouble at your local university when lefty protestors are marching around campus with duct tape covering their mouths, emblazoned with the words “free speech.” Such is the scene at the University of Colorado, where flowing-tressed ethnic studies prof Ward Churchill, who claims to be some kind of Native American (dubiously, it increasingly seems), is up to his neck in controversy. Churchill’s invitation to speak on a panel devoted to “prisons and Native American rights” at tiny Hamilton College in upstate New York occasioned the hullabaloo. In the run-up to the event, students, staff,...

I listened to the endless chatter about it on talk radio. I read the news stories, along with the editorials condemning Ward Churchill's essay. I have just gotten around to reading what the professor actually wrote. The University of Colorado professor could have used a good editor. That's the first thing I noticed. And certainly, he holds back not at all in casting blame for Sept. 11. What struck me the most, though, is how familiar it all was. The Eichmann reference clearly was stupid and was designed to be incendiary. A fair reader of the essay will not, though,...

Ward Churchill was scheduled to speak at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York on February 3, 2005. His appearance was canceled by the college after he caused a public furor over his loathsome remarks about the 9-11 tragedy in New York. AIM's Grand Governing Council has been dealing with Churchill's hateful attitude and rip-off of Indian people for years. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council representing the National and International leadership of the American Indian Movement once again is vehemently and emphatically repudiating and condemning the outrageous statements made by academic literary and Indian fraud, Ward Churchill in...

"Some prominent activists involved in earlier confrontations have devoted a great deal of energy to investigating his claim to be an American Indian himself and have found no evidence to support it... At various times, according to press reports, Churchill has described himself as Cherokee, Keetoowah Cherokee, Muskogee, Creek and most recently Meti. In a note in the online magazine Socialism and Democracy he wrote, ''Although I'm best known by my colonial name, Ward Churchill, the name I prefer is Kenis, an Ojibwe name bestowed by my wife's uncle.'' In biographical blurbs, he is identified as an enrolled member of...

AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT GRAND GOVERNING COUNCILMINISTRY FOR INFORMATION P.O. Box 13521 Minneapolis MN 55414 612/ 721-3914 . fax 612/ 721-7826 Email: aimggc@worldnet.att.net Web Address: www.aimovement.org    Ward Churchill was scheduled to speak at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York on February 3, 2005. His appearance was canceled by the college after he caused a public furor over his loathsome remarks about the 9-11 tragedy in New York. AIM's Grand Governing Council has been dealing with Churchill's hateful attitude and rip-off of Indian people for years.     The American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council representing the National and International...

CLINTON, N.Y., Feb. 1 - Over the last five days, tiny Hamilton College in upstate New York has been barraged with more than 6,000 e-mail messages full of fury, some threatening violence. Some donors have canceled pledges to an ambitious capital campaign. And prospective students have withdrawn applications or refused to enroll. Then, on Monday night, a caller to the college threatened to bring a gun to campus. Stunned and frightened, Hamilton leaders sought to end the turmoil on Tuesday by canceling the event that set it off: a planned speech by a Colorado professor who was invited to talk...

The New York state college whose invitation to CU professor Ward Churchill touched off a firestorm of controversy cancelled his talk this morning over security concerns. Hamilton College told the professor it is concerned that Clinton, N.Y., police might not be able to provide adequate security for the ethnic studies professor at the panel discussion scheduled Thursday because of the number of death threats made against him in response to his essay that argued the 9/11 attacks were justified and compared victims to Adolf Eichmann, the chief operative in Hitler's extermination of the Jews during World War II. "Considerable threats...

MIDI - RUNNING BEAR At C.U. is a professor...and Ward Churchill is the man's name This man molds mush-headed students...it's a real crying shame He spills bilge in ethnic studies...9-11's justified The folks who died, well, they were Nazis...that should come as no surprise Churchill, what is in your peacepipe...tell us what you've had to smoke Churchill, what is in your peacepipe...while you teach, you shouldn't toke Hamilton put out a welcome...it had not been received too well Your pals killed innocent people...there's no virgins in their hell In New York, if you try speaking...one man won't give you...

The fate of a tenured University of Colorado professor – who compared victims of the 9-11 World Trade Center terror attacks to Nazis, while praising the suicide hijackers for their "gallant sacrifices" – will be decided at a special meeting of the school's board of regents Thursday night. In the meantime, Ward Churchill, who yesterday preemptively stepped down as chairman of the Ethnic Studies Department, remains a professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian Studies at the Colorado school. The controversy stems from an essay Churchill wrote titled "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,"...

On Thursday, Ward Churchill, the chairman of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will come to speak at Hamilton College in upstate New York. The invitation has ruffled more than a few feathers because of an essay penned by Churchill in the days after the attacks of September 11.... [T]he rant applauds the attacks and viciously attacks the victims. I have rarely come across such a barrage of unhinged hateful psychosis masquerading as an academic treatise. I'll share the lowlights with you - but prepare to be outraged by this caricature of far-left ideological insanity....

Ward Churcill has attained sudden fame as the author of an essay claiming that the victims of 9/11 deserved their fate, because of their implication in America’s Evil System. His speaking dates on campuses like Hamilton College in upstate New York have aroused controversy and have caught the eye of Bill O’Reilly, the Big Foot of cable news programming. Bill, whose cable show is now available in Canada, where I live, has a tremendous opportunity with this story. While it is tempting to dismiss Ward Churchill, professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado, as a fanatical fringe...

Driven by concern about discimination by the Boy Scouts, Hamilton College faculty members are encouraging the college to stop giving institutional support to the United Way of Greater Utica. The faculty passed the motion unanimously at its Oct. 1 meeting. United Way funds the local Boy Scouts chapter, as well as about 70 other nonprofit organizations. "A lot of us have been concerned and very upset about the Boy Scouts' explicit discrimination against gay boys and men," said government professor Stephen Orvis, who presented the motion. No attendance was taken at the meeting, but Orvis said more than 100 faculty...

Embattled University of Colorado ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill today released a lengthy statement defending his controversial essay concerning the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Also, today, he resigned his post of chairman of the ethnic studies program but not his professorship — because he did not want the attention focused on him to reflect on fellow department members. Churchill has been in the eye of a media hurricane since last week when students and 9/11 victims' family members began to protest his scheduled Thursday appearance on a panel at Hamilton College, in Clinton, N.Y. Churchill had...

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 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...

[The following article was written by an alumnus of Hamilton College protesting the College’s recent decision to invite a radical Ward Churchill to speak on campus. Hamilton invited Churchill to speak in support of an essay he wrote saying that America needed more 9-11s, and comparing the people killed at the Trade Center to war criminal Adolph Eichmann.] “Ward and Nancy: Hamilton Goes Jerry Springer (Again),” by James Bohan First, Nancy Rabinowitz invited Susan Rosenberg to teach "Resistance Memoirs: Writing, Identity and Change," a month-long, seminar as part of the Kirkland Project's "artist- and activist-in-residence" program. Susan, formerly of the...

A University of Colorado professor has sparked controversy in New York over an essay he wrote that maintains that people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were not innocent victims. . . . Churchill's essay argues that the Sept. 11 attacks were in retaliation for the Iraqi children killed in a 1991 U.S. bombing raid and by economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations following the Persian Gulf War. The essay contends the hijackers who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11 were "combat teams," not terrorists. . . ....

BOULDER, Colo. -- The University of Colorado said Thursday a professor who compared the victims of the World Trade Center attacks to Nazis doesn't reflect the views of the school but that he has a right to express his opinion. Also Thursday, a Colorado congressman called the comments "outrageous" and urged the professor, Ward Churchill, to resign while the brother of a man who died at the World Trade Center called Churchill a "nut case." Churchill, chairman of the ethnic studies program at CU, has been invited to speak next month at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., where news of...

Clinton, N.Y. - A University of Colorado professor who suggested the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were justified and those who died in the World Trade Center were not innocent victims has ignited protests on an upstate New York college campus where he's been invited to speak. Ward Churchill, an expert on indigenous issues and chairman of the ethnic studies program at CU-Boulder, will take part in a panel discussion Feb. 3 at Hamilton College. Administrators defended Churchill's appearance but admitted his views are considered "repugnant and disparaging" by many people. "Hamilton, like any institution committed to the free exchange of...

CLINTON, N.Y. -- An outspoken professor who's drawn widespread criticism for comparing the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center to Nazis has ignited protests on a college campus where he's been invited to speak. Ward Churchill, an expert on indigenous issues and chairman of the ethnic studies program at the University of Colorado-Boulder, will take part in a panel discussion Feb. 3 at Hamilton College, a liberal arts school in upstate New York that's been a lightning rod for controversy in recent years. In a treatise titled, "Some People Push Back," written after the attacks,...

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...

The hiring of a former political radical and ex-convict at Hamilton College is sparking controversy on campus. There's mixed opinions after the hiring of Sue Rosenberg, a former political radical who spent 16 years in federal prison. Rosenberg was arrested in 1984 for the possession of explosives and granted executive clemency by President Clinton in 2001. "She's being hired on a one month residency as part of our Kirkland Project on campus. The program that hired her was aware of her background but they were particularly interested in teaching a course on writing memoirs," said Faculty Dean David Paris. The...