I’m embarrassed to admit that my alma mater has its own Ward Churchill, an idiot named Arthur Butz.
From today’s Daily Northwestern:
McCormick Prof. Arthur Butz recently backed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in comments published by several Iranian news agencies. Calling the Holocaust a myth, Ahmadinejad said Israel should no longer exist as a country. The remarks are causing global controversy.
“I congratulate him on becoming the first head of state to speak out clearly on these issues and regret only that it was not a Western head of state,” Butz said. His comments were reprinted in Saturday’s Chicago Tribune.
Butz was at NU when I was there and I remember we all thought he was an idiot then. He wasn’t very outspoken, but about every 5-10 years something like this comes along. A friend of mine took one of his computer science classes and said he was a sucky teacher.