Just more evidence to support the case that what your higher-education dollars are paying for might not be worth it! From today’s Chicago Tribune:

Northwestern University President Henry Bienen said Monday that a professor’s recent comments denying that the Holocaust happened are “a contemptible insult to all decent and feeling people” and an embarrassment to the university.

Bienen commented days after tenured engineering professor Arthur Butz commented in the Tribune and in the Iranian press that he agreed with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s assertions that the Holocaust is a myth.
(…)
Butz, a tenured Northwestern professor since 1974, is known for denying that the Nazis killed 6 million Jews during World War II. He promotes his views through his Northwestern-affiliated Web site, including a link to his 1976 book, “The Hoax of the 20th Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry.”

Butz told the Tribune last week that he e-mailed comments to the Mehr News Agency after he was approached by an Iranian journalist.

Butz wrote that the Holocaust didn’t happen, that it is a “deliberately contrived falsehood” and that its promulgation was motivated by the desire to create a Jewish state in the Middle East. About Ahmadinejad, he wrote: “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.”

The University, to its credit, dismisses Butz’s opinions and assertions as much as possible, but since Butz has tenure, what can they actually do as long as he doesn’t talk this trash in his class? What Northwestern says their response will be is:

“There are two ways to respond: ignore it or convert it into something positive,” Simon said. “Engaging in a conversation about whether the Holocaust happened is a waste of time. … We are setting a different tone. We are going to talk about why it is important to remember the Holocaust.”

Parental Alert: Be sure and carefully check out whatever institution of higher learning you plan to PAY to send your kids to — find out before, not later, if nutters and anti-Semites will be molding the minds of your children. (db)

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