DENVER -- A University of Colorado student who has been the center of controversy before is now in the middle of another heated debate after writing a satirical opinion piece in the student paper that some have criticized as racist and inflammatory.

Max Karson, an editor at the Campus Press, wrote an article this week entitled "If It's The War The Asians Want, It's The War They'll Get." (Read full piece.)

In the article, he said that he noticed some "tensions between the white students and the Asian students. There's never any outright conflict, but I notice little things."

He described a misunderstanding he had with an Asian student at a racquetball court and what he learned from that meeting.

"The Asian was so jaded by his experiences with the whitebread, brainless tree sloths of CU that ... it was inconceivable to him that we might be right. And when he looked into my eyes, it wasn't just irritation and disgust that I saw -- it was hate. Pure hate."

"Now I know that Asians are not just 'a product of their environment' and their rudeness is not a 'cultural misunderstanding.' They hate us all. And I say it's time we started hating them back. That's right -- no more 'tolerance.' No more 'cultural sensitivity.' No more 'Mr. Pretend-I'm-Not-Racist.' It's time for war," Karson wrote.

He then urges other students to join him in rounding up all the Asians on campus with large butterfly nets, hog-tying them, forcing them to eat bad sushi and play beer pong, replacing their rice cookers with George Foreman Grills and then releasing them after they've learned to make facial expressions and speak only English.

"If you're not sure if someone is Asian, give them a calculus problem to do in their head. If they get it right, net 'em," he wrote.

He said they should be shouted at until "the Asian spirit has been broken."

The article was published alongside another opinion piece by Felix Im, an Asian American CU student who lamented his loss of Korean/Asian culture to "Asianphiles."

"Suddenly, the same Caucasians who once asked me if I was truly capable of seeing out of my slants of eyes are now tattooing Chinese characters on their arms, drooling after yellow women and marveling at the mysterious aesthetics of the Eastern mind," Im wrote.

His piece ended with "Dear Asiaphile, I hate you." (Read that article.)

But Asian American students and advocates say Karson's piece does not balance out Im's writing. Karson's article dredges up Asian stereotypes for the sake of humor but it's not funny, they said.

"It is demeaning and full of bigotry towards the Asian-American community," said Hung Tran, a medical student at CU-Denver. "We all have a duty to not let a culture of hate be cultivated at one of our public institutions."

Karson was arrested and suspended from the school last year after he told his classmates he was "angry enough to kill" during a discussion about the Virginia Tech shooting, which left 32 students dead. Police said he alarmed other students by talking about how someone could be driven to kill because of injustices at universities. The district attorney declined to prosecute.

The year before that he angered staff and students writing about how he was afraid of black people and how women are not designed to enjoy sex.

Karson declined to comment, as did Campus Press Editor-in-Chief Cassie Hewlings and faculty adviser Amy Herdy.

University spokesman Bronson Hilliard said the column was protected speech under the First Amendment, although "it's not the sort of speech we encourage our students to engage in. ... But it's also not something we really seek to censor."

He said the dean of the mass communication school, Paul Voakes, would meet with the newspaper's editors and adviser to discuss whether the column should have been clearly labeled as satire.

Meanwhile, on Wednesday night, University of Colorado Chancellor G.P. "Bud" Peterson released a statement apologizing “to the members of Colorado's Asian and Asian-American communities for a satirical column ... a poor attempt at social satire laden with offensive references, stereotypes and hateful language. It was not properly labeled as either satire or commentary, and readers were left with the impression that the author spoke for the collective staff and leadership of the Campus Press, and perhaps even the University of Colorado."

The student editors also issued a statement of apology Monday night, stating "The Campus Press, as the only true vehicle for student voice to the CU community, offers a unique chance for aspiring journalists to learn this craft, and we are exploring a new and continuously evolving medium on a springboard to the professional world. Like all aspiring journalists, we will learn from this experience and better our publication."

In September, the editor of the student newspaper at the state's second-largest school, Colorado State University in Fort Collins, angered many people across the state with an editorial that read: "Taser this: (Expletive) Bush." It was a response to the Tasering of a student at the University of Florida.

The editor, David McSwane, was admonished but not fired by the board that oversees the paper.