BOULDER, Colorado (AP) — Crisis after crisis has buffeted the University of Colorado over the past year, from a sex scandal in the football program to the alcohol poisoning death of a fraternity pledge at a campus trying to shed its party-school image.

But nothing has incited more passion and outrage than Ward Churchill, an ethnic studies professor whose comparison of World Trade Center victims to a notorious Nazi has led to death threats, arrests and condemnations by two governors. Talk-show hosts and lawmakers have vilified him as a hate-monger and the school is considering firing him.

Churchill has refused to apologize; on the contrary, he has threatened to sue the school if it fires him. No one has defended Churchill’s statements, but some people have threatened him.

Two students were arrested at a Board of Regents meeting last week and swastikas were spray-painted on Churchill’s pickup truck.

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