University Professor Compares 9/11 Victims to Nazis
Feb. 8: Ward Churchill addresses students at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
BOULDER, Colo. — An embattled Colorado University professor who compared Sept. 11 victims to Nazis struck a defiant tone during a campus speech, saying "I'm not backing up an inch."
Ward Churchill (search), who had filed a lawsuit after officials at the state-funded university threatened to cancel his address, was interrupted several times by applause as he spoke to more than 1,000 people Tuesday night.
Churchill has resigned as chairman of the university's ethnic studies department. Gov. Bill Owens (search) has called for Churchill to be fired, and the university's Board of Regents is investigating whether the tenured professor can be removed.
"I don't answer to Bill Owens. I do not answer to the Board of Regents in the way they think I do. The regents should do their job and let me do mine," Churchill said to thunderous applause. "I'm not backing up an inch. I owe no one an apology."
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