Churchill attacks essay’s critics University of Colorado president calls for calm By Craig Gima cgima@starbulletin.com Ward Churchill, the outspoken Colorado professor who created a national uproar by comparing 9/11 victims to Nazis, told an overflow crowd at the University of Hawaii last night that he is the target of a right-wing strategy to attack academia. "I was targeted because they thought I would be an easy target," Churchill told the crowd of about 800. "That was a mistake. "It's not just an attempt to purge me," he said. "It's a purge of the academy." The crowd was mostly sympathetic to...