Steroid Use Of High School Athletes Reaching New Heights; Colorado Professor Ward Churchill Still Under Pressure To Resign.

(From CNN News)

AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening again everyone. It was a combustible combination, 9/11 and the suggestion that the killers that day had a just grievance and that some of the victims were hardly innocent. Like all arguments, it could simply have been accepted or rejected, but Professor Ward Churchill's now infamous words have created controversy and questions well beyond the statements. The first of them is simple: Does a college professor have a protected right to make such an argument? Should universities be places where even the most radical of thoughts find sanctuary in a free society? Should tenure protect even dumb comments, let alone highly controversial ones?

All questions on the table tonight and all beginning with a heretofore little known professor in Colorado; reporting for us CNN's Sean Callebs. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Defiant and not deposed, University of Colorado's embattled professor Ward Churchill was back on campus yesterday, his opening salvo fired at the state's governor, who demanded Churchill resign or be fired. WARD CHURCHILL, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: Bill Owens, do you get it now?

CALLEBS: Churchill, an ethnic studies professor, is under fire after saying victims of the 9/11 attacks were not innocent bystanders. He called them "little Eichmanns" after the man who implemented the Nazi-driven genocide of Jews. Churchill is not offering any apologies and is vowing no retreat. CHURCHILL: I have every right, indeed the obligation, not only as a citizen but under the terms of my contract and as a human being. I'm not backing up an inch. I owe no one an apology. CALLEBS: And there are those on campus who are decidedly in his corner.…