NORTHWESTERN UNIV. PROF DENIES HOLOCAUST

Northwestern professor denies Holocaust
The president of Northwestern University blasted one of his professors for denying the Holocaust. The president, Henry Bienen, said Monday that Arthur Butz’s comments are a “contemptible insult to all decent and feeling people.” Butz, an engineering professor, e-mailed comments denying the Holocaust to an Iranian news agency, backing remarks by Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that denied the Holocaust. In comments that were also posted on his Web site, Butz called the Holocaust a “deliberately contrived falsehood” and congratulated Ahmadinejad.

The Hillel at Northwestern, which has a substantial Jewish population, published an advertisement protesting Butz’s comments in the school’s newspaper and called for a community meeting Tuesday night to address the Holocaust.