Wednesday, July 25, 2007

BRAVO: Prof Churchill -Faux Indian Scourge of Denver Italian American's FIRED from Colorado U.

The ANNOTICO Report

 

We celebrate the good fortune of our friends, and the tribulations of our enemies.

We can now Celebrate the tribulations of Prof. Ward L. Churchill.

 

Prof. Ward L. Churchill, is an Imposter, because he untruly claimed to be an Indian, in order to receive special consideration as a minority Ethnic Studies professor.

He is a Bigot because he annually harasses the Italian American Denver Columbus Day Parade, encouraging followers to Slander the Marchers as Wops, and Dagos,

He portrayed the Victims of the World Trade Center 9/11 tragedy as “Little Nazi Technocrats"

Although it seems that any of those would be cause for him to be fired, he actually was Fired because he engaged in wholesale Plagiarism and Fraudulent Research in his Books, Writings and lectures.  !!!!!!

 

Churchill and his attorney try to spin the Termination as Retribution for having Unpopular Views , and called the Termination a Stifling of Free Speech and Trifling with Academic Freedom.

 

 

University of Colorado Fires Controversial Professor

 

The Boulder, Colo., school's regents say Ward Churchill was dismissed over fraud and plagiarism, not a post-9/11 essay.

 

    Los Angeles Times

By Nicholas Riccardi
Times Staff Writer
July 25, 2007

BOULDER, Colo.  The University of Colorado on Tuesday fired professor Ward L. Churchill, whose controversial statements comparing victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to Nazis triggered a debate over free speech and scholarship.

The university system's regents insisted that their decision was unrelated to Churchill's 2001 essay that called workers in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," a reference to Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was in charge of sending Jews to death camps.

They said they were acting because a faculty committee had found that Churchill, 59, a tenured professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, had committed plagiarism and fraudulent research in other writings.

"I'm not sure we had much of a choice," said University of Colorado President Hank Brown, whose recommendation to dismiss Churchill was upheld by the regents. "The integrity of our research is an integral part of our university."

But Churchill and his backers argued that the move was motivated by a dislike for the leftist professor's views, and that it would keep other professors from discussing unpopular subjects. "This is a political firing with academic camouflage," said Tom Mayer, a sociology professor.

Churchill's attorney, David Lane, said he'd file a lawsuit in Denver court today challenging the dismissal as a violation of the 1st Amendment. The message of the university's action, he said, "is there will be a payback for free speech."

The controversy began in 2005, when Churchill was slated to speak at Hamilton College in New York. Critics seized on a little-read essay he wrote after the Sept. 11 attacks titled "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens." In it, he argued that workers in the World Trade Center were "a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's gl obal financial empire," and compared them to the Nazi leader who carried out superiors' orders for genocide.

Churchill was roundly attacked on the Internet and television, and his speech was canceled. The University of Colorado's Board of Regents apologized for the essay and the then-governor of Colorado called for Churchill to be fired. He was not, but did step down as chairman of the university's ethnic studies department.

The school launched an investigation of allegations that Churchill's writings on genocide of Native Americans involved research fraud. Last year, a panel found several problems in Churchill's writings, and its findings were accepted by two other faculty panels. Last month, Brown recommended Churchill's dismissal.

"We were guided by the findings of three faculty committees and 25 tenured faculty members," regents Chairwoman Patricia Hayes said of the board's decision.

After an all-day closed-door deliberation, the regents voted 8 to 1 to accept Brown's recommendation that Churchill be dismissed. In their motion, they emphasized that they supported academic freedom.

Dozens of Churchill backers, some wearing T-shirts reading "I Am Ward Churchill," booed and cursed when the vote was announced. At a news conference afterward, Churchill criticized the findings against him as fraudulent and said he was staying in Boulder and fighting to regain his position.

"I am going nowhere," he said. "I'll be here."

 

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