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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
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MORE WARD CHURCHILL “I AIN’T NO INDIAN” FALLOUT Eastern Washington University’s cancellation of Ward Churchill - and its simultaneous decision to stand by its invitation to Ron Jeremy, penile performer supreme - has created an uproar on campus and off. ‘ The Easterner [the student newspaper of Eastern Washington University -- for background, see UD, 2/7/05] filed a public records request Feb. 11, per RCW 42.17.310, access to a copy of all e-mails, memos, reports, purchase orders and other materials regarding Jeremy or Churchill. This request included all e-mails, threatening and non-threatening, sent to the administration, faculty, campus police or staff offices of EWU. The Easterner was granted access to the public records Feb. 18. ’ The newspaper then quotes from some of these emails. Here’s one, from an English professor at EWU: “As a non-Native instructor leading a room full of students who will also be primarily non-Native, I cannot replace the learning opportunity that Churchill’s visit would offer to my students.”’ As he confirmed today in his speech in Hawaii, Ward Churchill isn’t Native. He has the same ethnicity as this professor and most of her students. But since this professor seems to believe that the mere possession of an ethnicity different from oneself and one’s students guarantees a “learning opportunity,” UD proposes that she find a real Indian and put him on display in her classroom. |