U. of Colo. Professor to Speak in Hawaii

[struggle4progress]

Several university and community organizations are sponsoring Ward Churchill's visit Tuesday to the Manoa campus.

University President David McClain on Friday criticized Churchill's comparison of victims of the World Trade Center attacks to Holocaust organizer Adolph Eichmann, but defended the appearance as an expression of free speech. <snip>

"We wanted to signal that we really believe in free expression not just for non-controversial ideas, but for controversial ideas, because that's what free expression is for," said Robert Perkinson, a professor of American studies. <snip>

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0205/208317.html


Assembly resolution would condemn speech

Madison - The Assembly will vote Tuesday on a resolution condemning a March 1 speech by Ward Churchill at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Stephen Nass (R-Palmyra), condemns "anti-American" comments by Churchill and calls on the university to cancel his talk. Churchill's talk, "Racism Against the American Indian," is part of the school's Native Pride week. <snip>

Interest in the speech is high; according to the university's Web site, the 400 tickets available for the speech have all been distributed.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/gen/feb05/303084.asp

[Blue to the bone]

1. Good!

I hope he keeps telling it like it is regardless of the threats by the wacko wrighties.

[yorkiemommie1]

2. University of Hawaii/ Manoa

was the site of a pretty big sit-in during the late 60s when the Regents failed to give due process to a Prof who was an outspoken critic of the VietNam war.

[Erika]

3. This guy is great

He can think independently of MSM and the right wing blogs. The right wing hate him for it, but what the heck. The right wing exists only to hate as far as I can see.

[mahina]

4. Oh crap

more dramas.
UH is in deep kim chee...Gov Lingle proposing 50-100 % (??) tuition hikes, our regents fired Even Dobelle and had to give him a giant settlement because they were so stupid, I am the third generation in my family to go there (undergrad) and as much as I love free speech...couldn't he do it someplace else?
(Shields up Zulu)

[KamaAina]

5. Watch for Lingle and repuke regents to use this as an excuse

to go after UHM. Bear in mind that UHPA actually endorsed ol' fish-face, 'cause they were so ticked off at Cayetano's budget cuts. Thus, some cover story is needed.

During the Dobelle fiasco, I looked into the backgrounds of some of the Lingle regent appointees, and doggone if I could find any evidence that Kitty Lagareta holds so much as a B.A. Hmmm....