Posted on 03/26/2005 9:26:40 PM PST by freespirited
SAN FRANCISCO - Ward Churchill told a sold-out crowd of ardent supporters here Friday night that he will not cooperate with the University of Colorado investigation into his academic record.
He made that declaration at the tail end of a bitter indictment of interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano's allegation Thursday that Churchill might have misrepresented his ethnic status to buttress the credibility of his work.
Churchill said it is befitting of a "lunatic asylum" that a committee is being charged with the task of determining, among other things, if he is an American Indian, as he has long claimed.
"I am who my grandmother said I was," Churchill said. "I am who my mother said I was. I will be, irrespective of any determination of a committee, with which I will not cooperate. It has nothing to do with nothing."
To a crowd of about 400 who paid $10 apiece but was kept waiting about 45 minutes past the advertised start time, Churchill opened with his traditional remark that he was bringing greetings from "the elders of the Keetoowah Band of Cherokees," the Tahlequah, Okla.-based tribe that granted Churchill an associate membership in 1994.
With special emphasis, Churchill described the Keetoowah as "my people."
As recently as Wednesday, former Keetoowah chief John Ross said Churchill's associate membership was merely honorary in nature and that although Churchill has claimed both 1/16 and 3/16 Cherokee heritage, the Keetoowahs' decision to grant his associate membership was not based on a determination of his Cherokee heritage.
Churchill's talk came little more than 24 hours after DiStefano announced that a seven-week investigation found that allegations of plagiarism and fraud in Churchill's writings were serious enough to be referred to a standing university committee that investigates research misconduct.
That committee also will determine if Churchill's disputed claim to be an American Indian is a violation of academic standards and a misrepresentation used to gain credibility and authority for his work.
The CU investigation was triggered by national outrage over an essay Churchill authored on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, in which he labeled some victims in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," a reference to Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann.
DiStefano's investigation concluded that such language from Churchill, though "repugnant," was protected speech and did not represent grounds for termination.
The review by the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct could take as long as seven months to complete, and if the findings are upheld, they then would be referred to the university's Committee on Privilege and Tenure.
The entire process could take two years or longer, with the CU Board of Regents having the final say on whether Churchill is fired.
In his Friday night speech, Churchill said the disciplinary action contemplated against him, despite DiStefano's assertion to the contrary, was very much about the incendiary content of his political speech.
"They don't charge you with what it is that they're ultimately after you for," he told the mostly leftist audience members, who filled their time waiting for Churchill by reading literature such as the newspaper of the Maoist International Movement.
bttt
and don't forget to flush twice
it's a long way to the Chancellor's kitchen
I dunno, they may fire him.
I have a feeling that this would not meet any sort of legal standard, but that it will do just fine at CU.
["I am who my grandmother said I was," Churchill said. "I am who my mother said I was.]
Yeah, but they both said he was an A$$#@!&.
If you register at KHOW radio (www.khow.com) you can read the plagiarism report from Dalhousie University (it's on the Craig and Dan show page). There is absolutely *no* excuse for not firing him for the plagiarism documented in that report.
But I still think they will come up with some kind of buy-out deal. Maybe try to get the price down to a year's pay.
I've written the CU Board of Regents already.Gues it's time to ride those cowards again.What trash people..no b*lls to do the right thing WIMPS
Fine .. don't cooperate .. who cares - you're scum Churchill.
I seriously doubt a conservative academic would be given as much slack at CU.
Were she watching his speech, she'd likely say, "Who is that son of a b____?"
I am a poor ignorant American Indian but even I know better than to say "it has nothing to do with nothing". This coming from a college professor??? He must have flunked English too.
As for his thumbing his nose at the Committee (which is disposed to bias in favor of keeping him), that's a dumb move. But it's in keeping with the rest of his life. Churchill may just be able to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
He might just force the University to do the right thing and fire his white-man *ss. So be it.
Congressman Billybob
Jack Nicholson once said: "My mother never understood the irony when she would call me a son of a bitch."
Nice get!
Won't cooperate; maybe defenestrate..
[I have to come clean. I also have publicly pretended to be an Indian.]
Me, too. but I was trying to get a job working a phone bank in New Delhi.
#Rim shot#
Thanks for coming. Don't forget to tip your cocktail waitress.
Tracing his genealogy will find that he is from slave owning heritage, so it is said. Come on, it won't be as difficult to trace as he thinks--unless he is going to claim that he is illegitimate. His mother and grandmother should slap him on the side of the head for this nonsense.
its the old leftist maxim
"fight the good fight"
it means, drag it out as long as possible, milk the morons for as much in speaking fees as possible, ink the movie deal, whine, cry, speak in tongues, and stand tall,
while you hope no one notices the piss running down your leg
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