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people out. We’re just hoping people
will feel comfortable enough to come
in, to sit, to read books.”
About 240 students have used the
health education office each month
during winter term so far, Dochnahl
said. According to the office’s log
book, the majority of those students
received nicotine replacement prod
ucts or came for condoms, which
are “the only form of contraception
that also protects against STIs (sex
ually transmitted infections),”
Dochnahl said.
About 15 million new cases of STIs
occur each year, two thirds of which
are contracted by people 25 years old
or younger, according to the Ameri
can Social Health Association.
Condoms are 85 to 98 percent ef
fective, depending on how correctly
and consistently they are used, ac
cording to Planned Parenthood.
The University’s health education
program gives out about 500
condoms each month, Director of
Health Education Paula Staight said.
Staight said the EMU resource cen
ter will offer a more comfortable en
vironment for students.
“It’s a convenient place for stu
dents to stop in and get information
without having to go into a clinic en
vironment,” Staight said. “It doubles
their options and helps us get
some more visibility in a more
student-oriented place.”
Dochnahl said the health resource
center will evolve over time, eventu
ally hosting movie nights, discussion
groups and workshops.
“We have this vision of what it’s go
ing to be,” Dochnahl said. “But we are
not sure what will actually manifest.”
The resource center will be open
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for its grand
opening today, with regular hours
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
karahansen @ dailyemerald. com
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called for Churchills resignation
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event to stay on topic.
“His topic was not the main focus
of the conference,” Morse Center Di
rector Margaret Hallock said. “It was
n’t part of the original intent.”
“The joint presentation — which
was not centrally related to the con
ference — would overshadow two
days’ worth of other presentations,”
CoDaC Associate Director John Shu
ford said in an e-mail. He also cited
concerns about the security and safe
ty of all participants.
“We knew that it would signifi
cantly change the nature of the con
ference,” Hallock said.
Hallock added that the decision
was made within the last couple
weeks. One of Churchill’s papers
from 2001 became a focal point of na
tional scrutiny after the professor had
a speech canceled at Hamilton Col
lege in Clinton, N.Y. in early Febru
ary. The essay, entitled “Some People
Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting
Chickens,” offers Churchill’s analysis
of the Sept. 11,2001, attacks.
Churchill referenced Malcolm X’s
statement on the assassination of
John F. Kennedy in the controversial
essay’s opening paragraphs.
“On the morning of September
11, 2001, a few more chickens —
along with some half-million dead
Iraqi children — came home to
roost in a big way at the twin tow
ers of New York’s World TYade Cen
ter,” the essay reads.
Churchill referred to some victims
working at the World TYade Center as
“technocrats” and called them “little
Eichmanns,” a reference to Nazi
Adolf Eichmann.
The essay didn’t receive much at
tention until Churchill was scheduled
to speak at Hamilton College on
Feb. 3. The New York Times report
ed Saturday that Churchill received
more than 100 death threats prior to
the event, which the college can
celed for security reasons.
Prior to the cancellation,
Churchill responded to the contro
versy in a Jan. 31 press release.
“I am not a ‘defender’ of the Sep
tember 11 attacks but simply point
ing out that if U.S. foreign policy re
sults in massive death and
destruction abroad, we cannot feign
innocence when some of that de
struction is returned,” Churchill
said in the statement. “I have never
characterized all the September 11
victims as ‘Nazis.’ What I said was
that the ‘technocrats of empire’
working in the World TYade Center
were the equivalent of ‘little Eich
manns.’ Adolf Eichmann was not
charged with direct killing but with
ensuring the smooth running of
the infrastructure that enabled the
Nazi genocide.”
Churchill resigned from his posi
tion as University of Colorado’s
chair of the Department of Ethnic
Studies and has been placed under
review by the institution. Colorado
Gov. Bill Owens, a Republican,
denounced Churchill and called for
his resignation in a letter given
to the University of Colorado’s Col
lege Republicans, according to his
Web site.
“We are not compelled to accept
his pro-terrorist views at state tax
payer subsidy nor under the banner
of the University of Colorado,”
Owens said in the letter.
“(Churchill’s views) are at odds
with simple decency and antagonis
tic to the beliefs and conduct of civi
lized people around the world.”
However, members of the Univer
sity of Colorado College Democrats
defended Churchill in a Feb. 7 letter
posted on the group’s Web site.
According to the letter, attacks on
Churchill are “attacks on the Acad
emic Freedom of the University. ”
“The content of his statements
notwithstanding, his position with
the University should not be in jeop
ardy for exercising his freedom of
speech,” the students said in the let
ter. “The actions of those who have
sought Ward Churchill’s dismissal
from the university are misguided
and unjust.”
adamcheny@dailyemerald. com
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