1.
Canada body-parts murder victim identified
DENVER, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Colorado lawmakers have joined Gov. Bill Owens in denouncing a University of Colorado professor for his remarks about victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attack.
The Colorado House voted 65-0 Wednesday to denounce Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies, the Rocky Mountain News reported. He resigned as head of the ethnics studies department, but has refused to resign from the faculty.
The controversy erupted this week over an essay in which Churchill said the United States invited the attacks because of its own foreign policy. He compared the "technocrat corps" working at the World Trade Center to Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
The essay came to light after Churchill was invited to a panel discussion at Hamilton College in upstate New York. The event was canceled after death threats were received.
In a formal action, the Colorado House voted 65-0 to denounce Churchill, saying his essay "strikes an evil and inflammatory blow against America's healing process."
Owens earlier urged Churchill to resign from the faculty, but he now is pressing the university to fire him. He believes regents have the legal standing to fire the tenured professor.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Additional Top News Stories | |
FRANKFORT, Ind., June 1 (UPI) --
The Mexican-born salutatorian of an Indiana high school who almost missed her graduation because she missed a visa deadline said she's glad to be home.
|
NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) --
Rielle Hunter, former mistress of onetime Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, has written a memoir about their affair and the child it produced.
|
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) --
U.S. employers added 69,000 jobs in May and the jobless rate ticked higher to 8.2 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.
|
Free doughnuts on National Doughnut Day ... Bear interrupts graduation ceremony ... Puppy rescued from California highway ... Man sat on after stealing sandwich ...
... UPI Quirks in the News.
|
| Stories | Photos | People | Comments |
View Caption
