[FairOpinion]

This is just more evidence, that the US university campuses are a breathing ground for hatred towards the US and anything good and decent.

[MEG33]

Ward will be raking in the bucks for being a fraud , a liar and most importantly..anti American.

[Chgogal]

This is why Churchill should be terminated. I hope you enjoy this analysis. It is well footnoted.

http://hal.lamar.edu/~browntf/Churchill1.htm

[Calpernia]

coming to an island near you

[LauraleeBraswell]

The Islands of Hawaii were invaded by White male Imperialists. They have desecrated the land of the Native Indians. The Whites have taken these people's land to build their empire.

[Humidston]

Ward Churchill - the tar baby for the left.

Follow the schools who want him, then put a black mark by their names. This will be fun!

[skip_intro]

University of Hawaii Political Science Professor Kate Zhou says she is upset that Churchill has received so much support from the University of Hawaii, when much more qualified and well respected academics and authors have been snubbed.

I hope you've got tenure, Kate, because if you don't you never will.

The loons are in full control of the institution.

[GeronL]

what is wrong with these people??

[John Valentine]

University of Hawaii professors have organized an aggressive fundraising effort to bring Ward Churchill, a highly controversial professor based at the University of Colorado and activist in the American Indian Movement, to lecture at the University’s Manoa Campus, according to an internal memo obtained by Hawaii Reporter.

I smell the putrid, stinking hand of Haunani Trask in this. She is the equal of Ward Churchill in all things dishonest and disloyal.

As an aside, calling Churchill an activist in the (capitalized) "American Indian Movement" is misleading if not downright untrue. The American Indian Movement has disowned and discredited Ward Churchill as a self-promoting fraud. They have no use for him whatsoever.

And neither should ANY self-respecting organization, educational or otherwise.

[FairOpinion]

I just found this article -- it seems like tenured professors CAN be fired and some of them were -- right at the University of Colorado.

Review Of Churchill's Writings Under Way
http://news4colorado.com/localnews/local_story_048180238.html

"The regents have fired two tenured professors in the past five years. Chemical engineering professor Igor Gamow was dismissed in April after seven women accused him of sexual harassment and other misconduct over 12 years. Gamow's review took two years. He has denied their claims.

In February 2000, after a three-year review, the regents fired Mahinder Uberoi from the College of Engineering and Applied Science for "demonstrable professional incompetency, neglect of duty, insubordination" and other conduct. They declined to offer specifics. Uberoi filed discrimination lawsuits against the university, but they were dismissed.

Under CU's "Laws of the Regents," faculty members can dismissed when the regents determine the "good of the university" requires it.

The U.S. Supreme Court and federal appellate courts have repeatedly ruled that the academic freedom of professors in public colleges and universities is protected by the First Amendment, according to the American Association of University Professors.

But the organization said courts have determined that academic freedom is not absolute. "

[Free and Armed]

Hell, even my community college in our little redneck town (and I don't say redneck in an insulting manner), has anti-American crap going around. Our orientation featured a left-wing speaker from India who talked about the superiority of Hinduism over Western ideals and how missionaries are a barrier to world peace. Our educational institutions need to be completely reconfigured.

[ajolympian2004]

Thanks for posting this. I passed it onto Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman of KHOW am 630 here in Denver. They are leading the charge against Churchill from the platform on their radio show.

http://www.khow.com/hosts/caplis-silverman.html

[macbee]

"...Whether you support Churchill or not, I do hope, when questioned, that you will speak to the issues of academic fairness, protection for controversial ideas and conservative attempts to limit the scope of political speech, indigenous rights, and identity politics that put this particular controversy in its broader context."

Wonder how the profs would feel if some haoli academic tried to pass himself off as a native and to speak on behalf of locals. Somehow I doubt that the spirit of aloha should extend to liars and charlatans.

[sarah_f]

Hawaii is not part of the US. Same with Kalifornia, NY, and Massachusetts.

[doug from upland]

This crap is exactly why I am doing the ENEMY PROFESSOR series.

[Soliton]

This is the bio of the guy pushing this.

Jon Goldberg-Hiller


Backround: I completed my BA in political science at Reed College (1979) and my MA and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1991) with emphasis in public law, comparative politics, and Marxist theory. Prior to graduate school, I had the opportunity to live and teach in West Africa, and subsequently I taught at Reed College prior to joining the faculty at UH.

Research Interests: I have recently been studying the ways changing forms of identity, nationalism, political authority and political economy have modulated the mobilization of rights in various contexts. By starting with these dimensions of social life rather than with rights discourses themselves, I have tried to understand how rights are resisted and how they retain relevancy; in this vein I have researched such contemporary phenomena as the conservative reaction against same-sex marriage, opposition to the political recognition of indigenous peoples, and efforts by labor unions to boycott legal regulatory machinery. I am presently embarking on a study of the means by which indigenous peoples in the Pacific have mobilized rights that lack constitutional or jurisdictional authority and how these ideas about rights have traveled across space and time, altering indigenous identities and redirecting political demands.

Selected publications:

“Rights as Excess: Understanding the Politics of Special Rights,” Law and Social Inquiry, forthcoming (with Neal Milner). download pdf copy

“‘Subjectivity is a Citizen’: Representation, Recognition, and the Deconstruction of Civil Rights,” Studies in Law, Politics and Society, Forthcoming. download pdf copy

The Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights,. University of Michigan Press, 2002

"Reimagining Rights: Tunnels, Nations, Spaces." Law & Social Inquiry, forthcoming (with Neal Milner.) download pdf copy

"Rites, Rights and the Right: Conservative Christian Politics in the United States," Theory and Event 5.2, 2001 (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/tae/).

"‘Making a Mockery of Marriage’: Domestic Partnership and Equal Rights in Hawai‘i," in Sexuality in the Legal Arena, Edited by Didi Herman and Carl Stychin, Athlone Press, 2000, pp. 113-131. American edition to be published by University of Minnesota Press.

"The Status of Status: Domestic Partnership and the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage" 19 Studies in Law, Politics and Society 3-38, 1999

Entitled to be Hostile: Narrating the Political Economy of Civil Rights," 7 Social & Legal Studies 517-538, 1998

"The Boycott of the Law and the Law of the Boycott: Law, Labour and Politics in British Columbia", 21 Law and Social Inquiry 313-351, 1996.

[MikeHu]

Maybe they can take the new mass transit system nobody uses.

[timydnuc]

Let them go!

I am so pissed off about this Churchill affair and all the leftists on our University campuses I'm ready to go back to teaching, when I retire. Hell, I'm 57, great private practice, I'll be retirable at 60 (mandatory retirement at 65, only 8 years). I have half a notion to go back and teach at a local University. The best choice would be near our cabin in Wisconsin (western).

Short story: I was an associate professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. It used to be the Harvard of the Midwest, that was years ago. My standard opening lecture of all my classes was as follows: I'm going to stand up here and tell you what you will need to know to be a doctor, you are going to listen and remember. You are in charge of learning, I'm in charge of teaching. One day we are going to unleash you on real sick people, they will trust you to make them well. You will be responsible to learn how to do that, I will be responsible to teach you how to do that. The equation goes thusly...you learn, I teach, patient gets well. If you can't take this treasure that has been given to your heart and soul, get out of your seat and leave this room. What you are about to embark on is an all consuming profession. If you are the least bit scared you need to go and find something else to do with the rest of your life. If you want lots of money, be a plastic surgeon, but don't darken my door. We learn to save lives here, and we are humble doing it.

I used to love to get into some very difficult aspects of my profession. You see your students with that DUH look on there face. That's when I went in high gear. The jacket came off, the tie got pulled down and I started to try anything. Preach, comedy, go back to the chalk board, always looking at those eyes. Then I hit on something, something that hit a nerve. I could see the light in their eyes. Some times one at a time, sometimes all at once. I would say to myself...I got you, you understand. Then I would go home and celebrate. They know, I taught them and they learned.

It's exhausting, but there is nothing else in the world (not even sex) that compares to that feeling.

If you think this was a worthless effort, consider this: I see my former students on a regular basis..medical meetings. They tell me that I gave them a passion for medicine and a passion that burns, and makes them a better doctor.

Ward Churchill is a charlatan and a communist propagandist, he is not, I repeat NOT, a professor. Fire him now.

A real professor teaches, and he teaches hard and long, and he leaves himself out of it. He gives knowledge, he doesn't inject his own ideology. That is against the rules. Churchill has violated that trust with reckless abandon. He's crossed the line. By crossing that line he has brought upon himself the wrath of the people that pay his salary, thus getting fired would be the least of his worries.

[kcvl]

University of Hawai‘i at Manoa - Feedback


http://manoa.hawaii.edu/feedback/

[orangelobster]

Churchill seems to be one of those guys that fried his brains on acid in the early '70's. The whole idea of a white guy pretending to be an indian for thirty years is bizarre. What's more bizarre is that a good many people bought the act for so long. People with real indian heritage must be repulsed by him.

[k2blader]

UH Manoa is chock full of leftists.