Wounded Heel
The best part about this is that he’ll be back. The best part after the firing, that is. The best part after the firing and the drums, that is. I like the drums.
Ward Churchill canned for plagiarism, making up history, may not teach at University of Colorado for as long as the grass grows, the buffalo roam and the bullshit flows:
BOULDER — The first, very long chapter of the Ward Churchill saga ended this afternoon as just about everybody — including Churchill — had predicted: He was fired from his job as ethnic studies professor at the University of Colorado.
… Churchill warned that his dismissal is the beginning of a wider attack on scholars with unpopular political views.
That’s been going on for a long time. Separate issue from making stuff up.
“If you think I’m the endgame, you’re wrong,” Churchill told supporters. “This is the kickoff.”
Hey, that’s white man talk! How about trotting out some “speak with forked tongue” or something, you know, Indian.
Great warrior vows to fight on:
Churchill, 59, said he would remain visible at CU while waging his court fight.
“I am going nowhere,” he said. “It’s not about breaking. It’s not about bending. It’s not about compromising. When you negotiate your rights, you haven’t got any.”
Sounds like a Ghost Dance. Regarding the white man’s law:
CU President Hank Brown had earlier recommended the dismissal. In the end, there really wasn’t much choice, Brown said.
Churchill “falsified history and fabricated history.” And Churchill “did not express regret, apologize or agree to refrain from this behavior in the future,” Brown said.
Some 25 faculty members on three committees had looked at the evidence against Churchill and found truth in the allegations he violated academic conduct standards, said Pat Hayes, regents’ chairwoman.
Churchill accused officials of orchestrating an “illusion of scholarly research” to justify his firing. “That’s a farce, but more than that, it’s a fraud.”
Yeah … forked tongue!
Regent Cindy Carlisle, who cast the dissenting vote, said she thought firing was too tough a penalty. She agreed with the Privilege and Tenure Committee’s 3-2 vote in May to suspend Churchill for a year without pay.
A Regent who wanted to see unrepentant forked tongue return to a university setting. That’s interesting.
Topics: academia, punishment, shameless self-promotion
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:21 am on Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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July 25th, 2007 at 10:24 am
It’s just one more case of the white man keeping the phony red man down.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Love the title, Jules, although I would have gone for “Wounded Ass”.
Check out the video clip over at Hot Air of Churchill getting heckled before the regents meeting. His comebacks are quite, ummmm, indicitive of his “intellect”.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:43 am
“Ward Churchill canned…”
Later…scumbag.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
If it was so hard to fire this guy, imagine what it would take to introduce some sort of diversity into the solid ranks of the left wing professoriate.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
I love how the MSM headlines all their stories something along the lines of “Churchill fired for 9-11 rant” and then bury 10 paragraphs in the statements from the review committee that his Eichmann spiel was clearly protected speech and the real reason for the firing was the clear and established academic fraud and such.
What I would love to see CU do is publish the names of the folks who were on his tenure candidacy committees and ask them why he was granted tenure.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Indians are building casinos right and left, investing in stocks and bonds, sending their kids to college (which may or may not be a good thing, considering the numbers of old 60s style pinkos still roaming the halls), and generally getting in synch with American life. Ward Churchill is bolstered by a cadre of angry young misfits and ethnic bigots. Soon enough he’ll be old news, and I wish him joy of it.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Rebecca! Welcome back, and with a fittingly stout punch to the port-side breadbasket, I might add.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Rebecca! Wonderful to see you again!
July 25th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Rebecca,
Glad you’re back. Hope you saw the large number of people posting at Tim Blair’s site, wishing you well.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Yeah, what Rebecca said. The man’s a plagiarizing leech and a rouser of rebels.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Well said, RebeccaH.
I am a teeny tiny fraction Micmac from my father’s side, but that doesn’t give me carte blanche to run around and proclaim myself full-blood Native American repressed person and ready to receive my reparations check. And what the Native tribes are doing now to better themselves far surpass the two-word slur that Mr. Churchill blurted re: 9/11 victims.
Coming from the college scene in the 90s, those cadres of angry young misfits and ethnic bigots were blissfully non-existent then; I don’t think I’d stay more than five seconds there with today’s conspiracy-and-”social justice”-fueled PhD’s.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Unfortunately, we’ve still got a long way to go to purge this fraud from all of the places and ideas he’s polluted. Wikipedia’s entry on Christopher Columbus still cites this fraud. There are “art” pieces in front of the Denver Art Museum citing to his discredited claims about indian genocide.
His stink will linger for a long time, if indeed we ever do succeed in ridding ourselves of it.
August 3rd, 2007 at 3:46 pm
The Duke lacrosse team fiasco shows that liberal educators have created a phony cultural paradigm that distorts reality. And, nobody exploits phony paradigms, obfuscates truth, or games the system like the Clintons.
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