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Does anyone have a cite (or better still, a link to the essay)?
I'm very curious about the context of his statement.
> I am sure that most of us know the story (excerpts below) of the tenured
> professor at U. of Colo. who referred to the 9-11 victims as "little
> Eichmanns." The governor has called for him to be fired. Maybe I missed
> it, but I have not seen or heard in the press or broadcast media any
> First Amendment argument being advanced on his behalf. Can anyone see a
> compelling state interest that would justify his firing?
>
> Keith
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> BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A University of Colorado professor who once
> compared some of the World Trade Center victims to a Nazi war criminal
> said Tuesday he mourns for everyone killed on Sept. 11 and conceded that
> he could have explained himself better.
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> Ward Churchill made the comparison in an essay written hours after the
> 2001 attacks and later revised for a book. He called some victims
> "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who organized the
> Nazi campaign to exterminate European Jews.
>
> ****
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> Gov. Bill Owens has called for Churchill to be fired, and the school is
> investigating whether the tenured professor of ethnic studies can be
> fired. .
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> ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
> Keith A. Maxwell
> Nat S. and Marian W. Rogers Professor
> Professor of Legal Studies and Ethics
> School of Business and Leadership
> University of Puget Sound
> Tacoma, WA 98416
> Office Phone: 253.879.3703
> www.ups.edu/faculty/maxwell/home.htm
> ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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