Posted on 07/06/2006 3:35:12 PM PDT by FreeManWhoCan
The University of Colorado professor who likened some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi official has appealed to keep his job as school officials move to fire him for what they say is research misconduct.
Interim Chancellor Philip DeStefano last week said the university should fire ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill; a faculty committee concluded last month that he committed misconduct.
Churchill requested a review Wednesday, the school announced. The process includes a confidential hearing, with the committee's findings forwarded to the school president.
Churchill has vowed to sue if he is fired. The professor penned a 2001 essay that compared white-collar workers at the World Trade Center to Adolf Eichmann, a key planner of the Holocaust. The essay attracted little attention until January 2005, when he was invited to speak at a New York college.
Colorado Gov. Bill Owens and others called for Churchill to be fired. University officials ordered an investigation into his scholarship.
School investigators said that Churchill misrepresented the effects of federal laws on American Indians and that he wrongly claimed evidence indicated Capt. John Smith exposed Indians to smallpox in the 1600s. It also said he committed plagiarism by claiming the work of a Canadian environmental group as his own. Churchill said that the investigation was an attempt to dump him because of outside pressure, and that no professor's work could stand up to such scrutiny.
This country's relentless oppression of fake Indian plagiarists continues unabated.
(Oh, yeah...hasn't happened.)
What's the matter? Has Churchill not received many offers from other universities as he had probably expected?
I'm sure UC Santa Cruz and UC Berkeley would extend open arms for Wadd to join their faculties..
It's about time this liar, cheater, thief gets his just dos. Fire the SOB...liberal loon...corrupting our kids.
Last sentence in the article: "Churchill said that the investigation was an attempt to dump him because of outside pressure, and that no professor's work could stand up to such scrutiny." this may have more truth in it than at first glance, especially if applied aginst the writings of some of the liberal professors teaching today.
Pretty freggin` pathetic. And how old is this guy now? And here is is still playing Cowboys and Indians.
"Captain, you will play my way or we will not play at all! It is allll your fault! All your fault!"
"Trelane, your parents have just told me they`ve fired you!"
"That`s not fair! That`s not fair! Waaah!"
If Churchill is correct that most professors could not stand up to scrutiny as he has, maybe it's time to look into ALL professors to see who's honest, and who needs to end up on the employment line.
He looks like Janet Reno.
well, at least his TEETH don't look fake.
Yeah, but he brought this attention upon himself which is what he wanted, so they gave him that. Everything about this guy is a fraud, even down to paintings he did and claimed as his own.
There was one painting he did that was publicized a year or so ago that he claimed was an original by him, and it was practically a paint by numbers of another painting by a Native American. They put both of them side by side and it was identical.
Ann Coulter even claimed a few months back all he had was a liberal arts degree. I had Professors just like this putz, I would be sitting in on a lecture hearing the biggest BS you ever heard in your life wondering how the hell this guy even got close to a classroom, and that was 25 years ago. One in particular was an English Professor who claimed an Emily Dickinson poem was written by Elizabeth Browning, and studenst were constantly telling him he was wrong, and he would get furious. This went on for weeks until he was exposed as an fraud and we never saw him again. I don`t even want to think what kind of crap they pass off as Professors now. It`s all based on this clique of liberals...They meet each other at their pot/LSD parties (well now it`s probably GW Bush bashing parties) and the BS flies and next thing you know they`re tenured with nothing more than a High school diploma and a few weeks at your local community college.
Sorry, but once you've put "Churchill" and "Appeals" in the same headline, you've already lost me.
He looks like John Lithgow in "The World According to Garp".
My guess is they will give him a big pension and call it a deal.
Then fire them all!
If college professors can't maintain scholarly and ethical standards set by universities, then they don't deserve to be there.
The conclusion one must draw from such examples isn't that every institution has its bad apples but rather that, at least in the liberal arts in America, moral turpitude and political hucksterism pervades higher education.
Radical criminals with questionable academic credentials flourish in a milieu that bristles with hostility toward real scholars who don't toe the party line—witness the case of former Harvard President Lawrence Summers.
Individuals with prison records or FBI rap sheets don't get into major educational institutions because they fudge their resumes.
They get in because they share the political dogmas of those who hire them—and they flourish for the same reason.
http://www.pirateballerina.com/blog/entry.php?id=397
Increase Mail's piece by 109%, reverse it, and the two overlap perfectly, down to the shape of the grass and the position of each rider's feathers, even the position of the horses' legs.Yet Churchill still maintains it is an original composition.(Yes, Ward, but why are all your Indians left-handed in the piece?)
SWEET Ann Coulter takes another look at the Ward Churchill controversy:
Tenure was supposed to create an atmosphere of open debate and inquiry, but instead has created havens for talentless cowards who want to be insulated from life.
Rather than fostering a climate of open inquiry, college campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banned words and prohibited scientific inquiry.
Even leftists don't try to defend Churchill on grounds that he is Galileo pursuing an abstract search for the truth.
They simply invoke "free speech," like a deus ex machina to end all discussion.
Like the words "diverse" and "tolerance," "free speech" means nothing but: "Shut up, we win."
Nahhh. He'll probably end up in Massa...you know.
THANK YOU!!! I`ve been looking for that for months! For all those Churchill supporters who haven`t seen this before, eat it up. Amazing isn`t it? I remember when I use to copy other peoples art as well and claim it as my own... When I was about EIGHT YEARS OLD! "Look what I did Mommy!"
The tax angle works most of the time. However, and this is ONLY MY OPINION, you take a school like UT, here in Texas. Old family money, legacy money, OIL money, and basically UT acts like it's untouchable. Sometimes, the new money potential just doesn't excite the big schools. UT has a great case of "big-school-itis." I used to administrate a molecular biology lab there. I absolutely love the students and admire MOST of the bio researchers. Of course, the sports teams are wonderful too. Dealing with the beaurocrats is another story altogether. It's like talking to martians!
LOL! As a chicken farmer, I just love that one. :)
What's he going to do, sue them for racially discriminating against a fake Indian?
I wouldn`t be suprised if he sues for being exposed as a fraud and wins. If a woman can sue for not being told McDonalds coffee is hot and wins, than anything is possible. By the way, that is one court transcript I would love to read...
"Where you told the coffee was hot?"
"No I was not"
"Did you have any idea that the coffee was hot?"
"No I did not.."
"Did the steam coming off the coffee give you an indication that it may have been hot?"
"No, I thought it was dry ice"
Let him sue. Counter sue for fraud - go for all those ill-gotten wages. Take old Ward to the cleaners...
With his plagaristic bent he should apply to be a prophet for the SDA church.
Placing Churchill's work beside that of renowned artist Thomas E. Mails and the two look like mirror images. But one is a copyrighted drawing. The other is an autographed print by Churchill.
I can think of so many research papers, from prestigious Universities/Professors that have turned out to be nothing but junk.
Many years ago in grad school I took a course on polymer solution thermodynamics from a visiting professor from CNRS in France (Henri Benoit.) Prof. Benoit made quite an impression on us - admonishing us to have a healthy skepticism concerning results, even in peer-reviewed journals. When asked about a particular theoretical paper, he exclaimed, "Pfft - I never believe a theory until someone who does not believe the theory publishes results that support the theory."
Isn't that the point of real peer review? Having an unbiased source either duplicate results or come to the same resulting conclusions?
Yes, that is the goal of real peer review. After almost 30 yrs in science, I can say that scientists have their favorite ideas, just like everyone else. Being skeptical of ones own ideas takes real diligence.
I'll bet this skunk is still getting his $100,000 salary while he's appealing his termination
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