Chaya Gil has an amusing report on Ward Churchill's recent speech at DePaul University. The CU "professor" told the crowd: “Hitler exterminated the wrong people. He should have exterminated your American grandparents instead of the Jews.” Nice. Brought to you by the DePaul Cultural Center.

 

In related news, I'm sure Ward Churchill and the rest of his merry band of multiculturalists and defenders of free speech will recoil in shock and horror at the news that theUniversity of Colorado has established a Center for Western Civilization. David Harsanyi of the Dever Post writes:

Conservatives in Colorado - and elsewhere - have long groused about the need for some ideological balance at CU.

Some, myself included, aren't exactly sure why studying Greek philosophy or the Federalist Papers is considered conservative, but maybe I'm naive.

Then again, the Center for Western Civilization is located on the same campus as the Ethnic Studies department, where victimhood and half-baked conspiracy theories are valued over scholarship. That fact, I suppose, could make anyone feel like a conservative.

"Originally, we talked about how we could increase intellectual diversity on the Boulder campus," Kopff says. "We were looking for ways to encourage more participation, to create the kinds of traditional courses and bring in top speakers. ... We also wanted to encourage outreach to the community."

The community that Kopff speaks of is a growing classical education movement, comprising home-schooled and parochial-school kids and thousands of ordinary parents who value traditional curricula.

So far, Kopff hasn't felt any pressure from his colleagues at the left-wing campus, pointing out that there is a difference between academics who are conservative and academic conservatives who value the rigors of a classical education.

Kopff is currently working with a miniscule annual budget of $5,000 supplied by CU department of arts and sciences. But he is hoping to grow the Center dramatically through federal grants and private donations, so if this is a cause you believe deeply in you can reach Professor Christian Kopff by clicking here.