[NU Sports] No ifs and and, hopefully, no Butz

[Jonathan Hodges]

List member Jim Leonard's letter concerning this topic made it into
the Daily today:

http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/08/43e99cffe1b8a

I am glad that we can bring this up on this list (despite its
non-sports nature), as many list members do have insights into this
topic (especially since we have people who attended NU from many
decades).  It is also good to see that the campus never really forgets
about this professor - about every 4 years or so this topic resurfaces
and the students are as outraged as the ones who came before them.

Jonathan

On 2/7/06, John A. DeGroat <johnadeg at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> I raised that question a number of years ago and got the usual  BS about
> being tenured and that what he says hs nothing to do with electrical
> engineering.  The real question is why was as he given tenure in the
> first place.
>
> At the end of World War II, my dad who was a pathologist in the Army
> Medical Corps was supposed to go into Buchenwald and gather medical
> evidence for the Nuremberg trials.  As it turned out, he had so many
> points that they shipped him home for discharge otherwise I doubt that
> he would have gotten home before 1946.  I take offense at guys like
> Butz.  Eisenhower was smart when he had the signal corps take pictures
> at all of the concentration camps that we liberated.  He reasoned that
> after a few years, there would be people denying that they ever
> existed.  I also take offense at Bernardine Dohrn being on teaching at
> the law school, but taht is another story.  Keeping people like that
> around gives Northwestern a bad name.
>
> John DeGroat
>
>
>
> Dennis W. Brandt wrote:
>
> > Who is this Butz (appropriately named) character who goes to Iran and
> > denies the holocaust?
> > Why is a clown like that a professor at my alma mater?
> >
> > Basketball, football, men's field hockey (obligatory reference to sports)
> >
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