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CU's academic culture ignored(How did a 'Ward Churchill' happen? Must read!)
The Rocky Mountain News ^ | March 12, 2005 | Dave Kopel

Posted on 03/12/2005 6:17:18 PM PST by The Loan Arranger

Post columnist nearly alone in probing 'dysfunctional' milieu. For all the ink devoted to the Ward Churchill case, the Denver dailies have done virtually nothing to investigate the dysfunctional campus academic culture which led to the Churchill fiasco.

Here are some of the questions the Denver media have not even attempted to probe: Why did the University of Colorado Arts and Sciences administration continue to promote and laud Churchill after the late-1990s publication of professor Thomas LaVelle's articles alleging extensive academic fraud and plagiarism on Churchill's part? Are there other academic frauds and plagiarists at CU whom the administration has protected? How did CU become such a racist institution that a patently unqualified man was pushed for tenure in three departments because he claimed to be an Indian? How many other poorly-qualified teachers have gotten jobs at CU, based on their ethnicity or their pretended ethnicity? To what extent does the extreme left dominate hiring at CU, so that highly qualified applicants for teaching positions are rejected, whereas politically correct hacks get the job? How often do other CU teachers act like Churchill allegedly did by punishing students for expressing opinions contrary to the teacher? Has CU protected other teachers who have been credibly accused of making violent threats and/or perpetrating on-and off-campus violent crimes against people who disagree with them?

Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi is virtually alone in the Denver media in attempting to examine the reality of academic freedom at CU. His column last Monday detailed the plight of CU instructor Phil Mitchell, who is apparently being pushed out of CU because of political pressure from the far left.

(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: academia; affirmativeaction; cigarstoreindian; colorado; fake; ivorytower; pagiarism; pc; wardchurchill
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To: The Loan Arranger

This is why it's so important for Churchill to be fired. It is likely to set off massive, uncontrollable litigation in which CU's dirty linen will be fully aired.


21 posted on 03/13/2005 5:11:10 AM PST by libstripper
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To: Cicero

You're right. That's why Churchill needs to be fired and there needs to be a law suit. It's the only hope the Colorado taxpayers have for a full airing of the scandal.


22 posted on 03/13/2005 5:14:54 AM PST by libstripper
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To: randog

If Churchill is bought off the white hot light of publicity will go off. If he's fired, the lawsuit and its accompanying relevations will keep it on CU.


23 posted on 03/13/2005 5:17:16 AM PST by libstripper
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To: mountainlyons
KHOW and KOA radio have been on top of what has been going on and have gotten military records and some other documents giving this jerk tenure. I forgot the websites but they are not too hard to find.

Caplis and Silverman at KHOW:
http://www.khow.com/hosts/caplis-silverman.html

Gunny Bob Newman at KOA
http://www.850koa.com/shows/newman-wardwatch.html

Rocky Mountain News archive on Churchill:
http://cfapp.rockymountainnews.com/archive/archive.cfm?section=news&include=ward_churchill

Excellent blogger site for everything Ward Churchill:
http://www.pirateballerina.com/

24 posted on 03/13/2005 5:24:51 AM PST by ajolympian2004
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To: The Loan Arranger

STOP WARD CHURCHILL NOW!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360865/posts


25 posted on 03/13/2005 9:17:37 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (Watch out for bears, to them you are spaghetti dinner)
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To: Swanks
CU's gotta be on notice that settling with Churchill, while knowing that plagerism, threats, and false military records are "in play" will cost CU more, in the long run, than a Churchill lawsuit.

What do they care? It's just taxpayer money and there's an endless supply of it, especially for the "intellectually elite."

26 posted on 03/13/2005 9:28:42 AM PST by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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To: tom paine 2

I feel sorry for some of my best graduate students. They're lucky if they get jobs, while they eagerly offer positions to idiots.


27 posted on 03/13/2005 1:31:00 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: libstripper

It's like that lawyer joke. If they manage to fire Churchill, it's a good start.


28 posted on 03/13/2005 1:32:57 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: The Loan Arranger

as much as this makes me wanna puke, i think

rush is right: leave churchill there, on display. he's of more use to conservatives teaching at cu.

no doubt the college students will sign up for his classes to laugh at him.

what better outcome can you imagine? churchill tormented daily in his classes by his students.


29 posted on 03/13/2005 1:38:41 PM PST by ken21 ( today's luxury development. tomorrow's slum.)
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To: The Loan Arranger
CA ACADEMIC INSANITY

A certain Dr. Denice Denton attacked Summers, but also insisted that his peccadillo might be profitably exploited as a “teachable moment.” But it turns out that Denton, the newly appointed chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, had had her own “teachable moment” — though one that was as quickly forgotten by the media as Summers’s was lasting. Again, in the bizarre world of academia, the chance tearing of a scab reveals quite interesting things underneath. Even before Chancellor Denton arrived at her new $275,000 job, she had negotiated a special university position as well for her girlfriend, Gretchen Kalonji, described as her partner of seven years, for the princely annual sum of $192,000 — a billet that was specially created, unadvertised, and closed to all other job applicants. This novel variant of spousal accommodation was precisely the sort of old-boy networking in public hiring that transparent affirmative-action protocols were supposedly designed to stop. In contemporary university parlance: Was there not a worthy Latina or African-American woman who could have at least been interviewed for the job?

The Denton-Kalonji household will have a combined income of at least $467,000 — plus up to another $50,000 granted to Kalonji for the expenses incurred in her “transition” in moving to the area. This supplement comes on top of a previous $68,750 granted to Chancellor Denton to move to the rent-free, service-provided University President’s House.

Giving a couple already making almost a half-million dollars a year nearly $120,000 to move to California prompted outrage: not from the tenured feminists on the Santa Cruz campus, but from the university’s blue-collar employees, secretaries, and maintenance staff. At a time of record state budget deficits, workers had not received a raise in three years. Meanwhile student fees had recently increased by 10 percent and the Santa Cruz campus had just gone through $14 million in state budget cuts the prior year.
Among the elite of the nation’s professoriate, class considerations always bow to gender sensitivity.

What are we to make of all these recent university teachable moments? The usual exegeses suffice: The contemporary campus has devolved into an Orwellian world in which the ends usually justify the means. Diversity really means no diversity of ideas. Unfettered expression is a code word for groupspeak of the Left. Academic freedom and tenure ensure timidity and monotony of thought. The champions of the oppressed and discriminated are, in fact, the affluent and privileged, whose antics are excused only by the irrelevancy of academic culture and properly deplored solely through the accidental discovery of a forgotten rant or taped remark.

Underneath all this is the disturbing fact that progressive campuses are charging their students tuition whose annual increases exceed the rate of inflation, while vocal professors have plenty of idle time on their hands and live lives that most Americans — or their own college staff members — can only dream of.

‘Teachable Moments’ But who will teach the teachers? by Victor Davis Hanson

30 posted on 03/13/2005 1:42:19 PM PST by John Lenin (Believing yourself when no one else does is a form of Mental Illness)
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