Ward Churchill Appeals U. of Colo. Firing

NewsMax ^ | Thursday, July 6, 2006 3:13 p.m. EDT | NewsMax

[fish hawk]

Also he was a big hit at the U. of Hawaii. Standing room only as well as when Ma Sheehan was here. Standing ovations for both weasels.

[samadams2000]

My guess is they will give him a big pension and call it a deal.

[wai-ming]

no professor's work could stand up to such scrutiny

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.

[george76]

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.

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[george76]

           morphing of the two? 

  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?)  

 

[george76]

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."

[austinaero]

Nahhh. He'll probably end up in Massa...you know.

[Screamname]

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!"

[austinaero]

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!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL! As a chicken farmer, I just love that one. :)

[wyattearp]

Churchill has vowed to sue if he is fired.

What's he going to do, sue them for racially discriminating against a fake Indian?

[Buck W.]

When are they going to stop moving to fire him, and actually fire him?

[Screamname]

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"

[Chode]

HA ha...
and the RATS take another one in the...

[RochesterFan]

Let him sue. Counter sue for fraud - go for all those ill-gotten wages. Take old Ward to the cleaners...

[festus]

With his plagaristic bent he should apply to be a prophet for the SDA church.

[george76]

You are welcome.

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.

 

 New Ward Churchill Art Discovered  

 

( hint ? Try this.)

[magooey]

Churchill says most professors could not stand up to scrutiny as he has.

In the U.K., there is a government agency that evaluates the research of each department every 5 or so years. I understand that they takes the four best papers of each department member over the past 5 years, and evaluate the quality of the research. Each department of a University gets a grade that is public information. It used to be a grade up to 5, but lately some top departments have been awarded a 6 for excellence in research. So if you put a fire under the rear ends of academics, you can increase quality of output.

Australia is now considering adopting this research quality control technique. Given that these governments are spending billions on their Universities, institutions that are supposed to be 'communities of scholars whose purpose is the advancement and dissemination of knowledge', with advancement meaning research, the State can reasonably try to get its money's worth.

Why can't we do this in the US?

Magooey

[Brytani]

Tenure my fellow freeper, tenure. Peer review takes place but rarely is a professor called out for plagerism, biased sampling, or outright lies outside of medical/scientific publications.

I can think of so many research papers, from prestigious Universities/Professors that have turned out to be nothing but junk. First and foremost was the Superbowl Myth (domestic violence against women goes up during the Superbowl) as well as numerous studies on the supposed wage gap.

Not only was the Superbowl study proven to be a complete lie, myth and fabrication, some still believe it and those who conducted the "research" never faced any disciplinary action.

Wage gap studies have been shown to include poor sampling methods and in many cases outright fudging of figures. Again, nothing is done.

Complaints against Churchill over his plagiarism began well before his 2001 statements about the victims of 9/11. Now, 6 years later he still is not officially fired.

Tenure is like a Supreme Court position, you're in until death or retirement and regardless of how badly you act, it's almost impossible to be removed.

[RochesterFan]

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."