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Feb 01, 2005 06:30 PM Hamilton College & Ward Churchill: the coda
Joan Hinde Stewart, the president of Hamilton College, issued this statement informing the college community that Ward "little Eichmanns" Churchill would not, after all, be coming to the college.
As a specimen piece of intellectual mendacity, this gets, oh, about 9 out of 10 points: note the specious disjunction between "what we hold most dear, the right to speak, think and study freely" and the "But . . .," as if cancelling Ward Churchill’s appearance were some an infringement of "the right to speak, think and study freely." Note, too, the suggestion, the aroma of victimization that Stewart diffuses, as if the fault here lay with her critics instead of with the Kirkland Project, which invited Churchill, and indeed with Stewart hereself for her quite astonishing lack of leadership. It’s a pathetic end to a rebarbative episode.
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