March 4, 2005

Aloha, Ward Churchill

Controversial Professor Gets a Warm Welcome in Speech at U. of Hawaii

By Scott Smallwood

Honolulu

Standing in front of a crowded auditorium here, Ward Churchill didn't look like a professor who had received 100 death threats just a few weeks before. That's what happened the last time he was scheduled to speak on a college campus. But this time, the four leis draped around his neck made him look more like a visiting dignitary than the treasonous professor that he has been labeled.

Who says people hate this man? Maybe back on the mainland they do. There, his calling the victims of