How many Hamiltons?
The Ward Churchill affair has caused a light to shine on Hamilton College, and what that light revealed wasn't pretty. As David Horowitz explains, Hamilton has a program called the Kirkland Project. Hamilton's catalogue describes the program as “a campus organization committed to intellectual inquiry and social justice, focusing on issues of race, class, gender and sexuality, and other facets of human diversity.” In other words, says Horowitz, "a private fief for the radical left. (How can a program be committed to 'intellectual inquiry' and a political agenda at the same time? It can’t.)"
The Kirkland program is run by Nancy Rabinowitz. In that capacity, she offered a teaching position late last year to convicted left-wing terrorist Susan Rosenberg. Until receiving a pardon from Bill Clinton, Rosenberg was serving a 58-year jail sentence for illegal possession of dynamite and weapons (upon her capture, she had proclaimed, "We’re caught, but we’re not defeated. Long live the armed struggle!”)
Rosenberg's appointment was cancelled due to alumni pressure. Rabinowitz then proceeded to invite "terrorist cheerleader, Indian fraud, and academic impostor" (Horowitz's words) Ward Churchill to campus. That invitation also had to be cancelled when word got out. These events caused Hamilton's president to appoint a committee to take a closer look at the Kirkland project and to announce that Rabinowitz would be stepping down as its head.
How many other "Kirkland Projects" run by the likes of Rabinowitz have sprung up on college campuses? If anyone would know, it's Horowitz, so we give him the last word:
There are thousands of programs like the Kirkland Project and tens of thousands of professors like Rabinowitz and Churchill. . . .Hamilton and Colorado are the the Enrons and WorldComs of the university system. It was their misfortune to blunder onto the nation's radar screen and expose a wider corruption. But the erosion of academic standards is now very broad indeed and the rot deeper than you think.
