Phil DiStefano has taken on the interim chancellor's post at the embattled University of Colorado at Boulder.
Phil DiStefano has taken on the interim chancellor's post at the embattled University of Colorado University of Colorado may refer to: - University of Colorado at Boulder (flagship campus)
- University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
- University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
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at Boulder. He has been provost and chief academic officer for the past four years. DiStefano takes on new duties at a time of continuing controversy for UC Boulder. The most recent criticism is focused on Ward Churchill Ward LeRoy Churchill (born October 2, 1947) is an American writer and political activist. He was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1990 to 2007. , a professor of ethnic studies, who authored an essay three years ago in which he called 9/11 victims "little Eichmanns Little Eichmanns is a phrase coined by anarcho-primitivist John Zerzan[1] that symbolically refers to Nazi official Adolf Eichmann, and more generally, to the complicity of those who participate in destructive and criminal systems in ways that are not often considered to ." His comments went unnoticed until this winter, when students at Hamilton College Hamilton College, at Clinton, N.Y.; coeducational; founded 1793 by Samuel Kirkland as Hamilton-Oneida Academy, chartered 1812 as Hamilton College. It was named for Alexander Hamilton. Originally a men's college, the school began admitting women in 1979. (N.Y.)--some who lost parents in the terrorist attacks--protested the professor's planned speaking engagement there. Meanwhile, UC Boulder continues to deal with the federal lawsuit over its football recruiting practices and the recent, and much reported, drinking death of a student ...
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