Category: Legacy Site

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Howard Pankratz | Denver Post | 2 February 2005 Ward Churchill, who quit as department chair over his 9/11 comments, insists he won’t resign as teacher. Hamilton College in New York has canceled the panel discussion featuring controversial University of Colorado ethnic- studies professor Ward Churchill, citing dozens of threats to the college and

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ward Churchill | Znet | 2 February 2005 In the last few days there has been widespread and grossly inaccurate media coverage concerning my analysis of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, coverage that has resulted in defamation of my character and threats against my life. What

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) AK Press | AK Press | February 2005 After finding himself at the center of a media firestorm–and receiving a barrage of death threats–AK Press author, Ward Churchill, has stepped down from his position as Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado. Not satisfied with this, Colorado Governor Bill Owens

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Michelle York | New York Times | 1 February 2005 A University of Colorado at Boulder professor who became the target of widespread outrage after he called the Sept. 11 victims “little Eichmanns” has resigned as chairman of that school’s ethnic studies department, though he will continue to teach there. The professor, Ward Churchill,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jonah Birch | Left Hook | January 2005 As the new year begins, the attacks by the right-wing media and mainstream politicians against professors at Columbia University who are critical of Israel and the United States have continued unabated. The current round of assaults began in November of last year following the release of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Shlomo Shamir | Haaretz Daily | 26 January 2005 Columbia University President Lee Bollinger informed Israel’s consul general in New York, Arie Meckel, on Wednesday that a university-sponsored conference, “Revisiting the Middle East Peace Process,” scheduled to have taken place on Thursday, was postponed indefinitely. The conference was postponed due to heavy pressure by

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) George Saliba | The Columbia Spectator | 3 November 2004 As one of the faculty members of MILACA who has been recently slandered in a film that was screened behind closed doors, I feel a statement rebutting those slanderous charges is in order. After receiving the transcript of the film through the courtesy of

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) N. R. KLEINFIELD | The New York Times | 18 January 2005 As students resume classes at Columbia University today after their winter break, they will face the telltale summonses of college life: Go to class, surf the Internet, sleep, pursue romance, sleep. And a new one: Testify about the alleged misconduct of their

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Jennifer Senior | New York Metro | 17 January 2005 A new documentary accusing Arab professors of intimidating Jewish students has touched off a fierce war—of words—on the Upper West Side. Where does free speech end and bullying begin? Of all the political documentaries that have ignited controversy in the past year,Columbia Unbecoming is

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Stevenson Swanson | Chicago Tribune | 1 January 2005 NEW YORK — The Upper West Side of Manhattan may be half a world away from the Middle East, but a bitter war of words has turned the narrow campus of Columbia University into a miniature Gaza Strip, riven by divisions between supporters of the