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[UD Inserts Skeptical Parenthetical Commentary into the Local News Article Directly Below.] 'COLLEGE TO REVIEW KIRKLAND PROJECT Change in leadership, not speakers, cited [uh huh] Sat, Jan 29, 2005 MARSHAND BOONE Observer-Dispatch CLINTON -- Hamilton College will take a closer look at the Kirkland Project, a college committee in the spotlight recently for its selection of outspoken speakers. Kirk Pillow, associate dean of the faculty, said college President Joan Hinde Stewart has appointed a review committee to look at the programming of the Kirkland Project. But Pillow said the review is not tied to the committee's recent selection of controversial speakers. [right] Those speakers included Ward Churchill, a professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder who compared Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi figure; and Susan Rosenberg, who declined a lecturing invitation after it became known she had been imprisoned for 16 years for possessing explosives and linked to a robbery that left two downstate police officers dead. Pillow said the review was planned because the Kirkland Project's director, Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, is going ["]on sabbatical["] this summer. "This is a fitting time to review the project, given the change in directorship has been planned," he said, "but it's also true that recent events have complicated the situation. The choices have been controversial in recent months." Pillow said the college has been receiving calls from alumni, community residents and family members of Sept. 11 victims about Churchill's upcoming appearance on Feb. 3. A few of the calls were supportive, but most have been critical, he said. "The controversy is obscuring all of the great things that happen on our campus all the time," he said. "We don't get coverage for all the great things that happen here." ' ..................................................................... [You can't accuse UD (see UD, 10/8/04)of failing to cover the great things ...] |