Wednesday,
July 25, 2007
BRAVO: Prof Churchill -Faux Indian Scourge
of
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
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.
The
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
They said they were acting because a faculty committee had found that
Churchill, 59, a tenured professor of ethnic studies at the
"I'm not sure we had much of a choice," said University of
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,
The controversy began in 2005, when Churchill was slated to speak at
Churchill was roundly attacked on the Internet and television, and his speech
was canceled. The
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
"I am going nowhere," he said. "I'll be here."
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