Controversies
In 2002, then-President Eugene Tobin resigned after admitting that he had failed to give proper attribution to quoted material in speeches.
In 2005, efforts to bring the scholar Ward Churchill to speak on campus were controversial, as he had aroused considerable hostility due to his remarks following the 9/11 attacks in which he compared the victims to Nazis. His appearance was cancelled due to protests.
The college's decision in 2004 to hire Sue Rosenberg, a former political radical and ex-convict who had served 16 years in Federal prison for possession of explosives and weapons, was criticized. She was implicated, but not indicted, in the 1981 Brinks robbery during which two policemen and an armed Brinks guard were killed.
Professor Robert Paquette complained when an independent student group brought Annie Sprinkle an actress and former porn-star, as a speaker. Paquette later led an attempt to create the Alexander Hamilton Center on campus, but it was unsuccessful.
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