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EUGENE (AP) -- The University of Oregon canceled an appearance by a professor who has come under heavy criticism for an essay suggesting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists were justified.
Ward Churchill, an ethnic studies professor at the University of Colorado, was scheduled to appear at an April 1 conference on race and immigration issues in the post-Sept. 11 era.
The university removed him from the list of speakers more than two weeks ago, shortly after his planned appearance at New York's Hamilton College pushed him into the national spotlight. Hamilton officials had to cancel his appearance after receiving thousands of protests, including threats of violence. Oregon's decision to follow suit is at least the fourth engagement struck from Churchill's calendar.
Margaret Hallock, director of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, said that once the controversy erupted, it became clear that having Churchill on campus would shift the focus of the conference away from its intended subject.
"With the events of the past month, we realized that ... it was going to substantially change the nature of the conference. I don't think there's any question about that," Hallock said. "We felt that we had developed a very good and scholarly conference, and we wanted to proceed with it and that the best thing would be to not have his part of the keynote lunch."
The event is titled "Homeland InSecurity: Race, Immigration and Labor in Post-9/11 North America" and is jointly sponsored by the Morse Center and the UO Center on Diversity and Community.
Churchill, meanwhile, has found his livelihood under attack back home. The Colorado governor has called for his ouster, and the UC Board of Regents condemned his comments. Moreover, the university's president has begun a review of Churchill's writings and teaching.
Churchill said he won't resign and will sue the university on First Amendment grounds if it attempts to fire him. The university's faculty senate passed a resolution opposing Churchill's essay but supporting his right to his opinion as a matter of free speech and academic freedom.
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Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com
Ward Churchill, an ethnic studies professor at the University of Colorado, was scheduled to appear at an April 1 conference on race and immigration issues in the post-Sept. 11 era.
The university removed him from the list of speakers more than two weeks ago, shortly after his planned appearance at New York's Hamilton College pushed him into the national spotlight. Hamilton officials had to cancel his appearance after receiving thousands of protests, including threats of violence. Oregon's decision to follow suit is at least the fourth engagement struck from Churchill's calendar.
Margaret Hallock, director of the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, said that once the controversy erupted, it became clear that having Churchill on campus would shift the focus of the conference away from its intended subject.
"With the events of the past month, we realized that ... it was going to substantially change the nature of the conference. I don't think there's any question about that," Hallock said. "We felt that we had developed a very good and scholarly conference, and we wanted to proceed with it and that the best thing would be to not have his part of the keynote lunch."
The event is titled "Homeland InSecurity: Race, Immigration and Labor in Post-9/11 North America" and is jointly sponsored by the Morse Center and the UO Center on Diversity and Community.
Churchill, meanwhile, has found his livelihood under attack back home. The Colorado governor has called for his ouster, and the UC Board of Regents condemned his comments. Moreover, the university's president has begun a review of Churchill's writings and teaching.
Churchill said he won't resign and will sue the university on First Amendment grounds if it attempts to fire him. The university's faculty senate passed a resolution opposing Churchill's essay but supporting his right to his opinion as a matter of free speech and academic freedom.
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Information from: The Register-Guard, http://www.registerguard.com
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