Posted on 11/02/2006 9:11:35 PM PST by george76
Professor Suing To Get Legal Fees from CU.
A judge Wednesday refused to stop dismissal proceedings against a University of Colorado professor accused of research misconduct after he filed a lawsuit seeking $20,000 in legal fees from the school.
Denver District Judge Stephen Phillips agreed with university attorney Patrick O'Rourke who argued that ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill would still be able to seek attorneys' fees and lost wages if he successfully fights to keep his job.
Churchill has denied the allegations and is appealing a recommendation by university officials that he be fired. Churchill's attorney, David Lane, asked Phillips to stop the proceedings until the legal fees issue was resolved.
Churchill angered many people with an essay that likened some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi organizer of the Holocaust.
The university concluded he could not be fired for those remarks but launched an investigation into the research misconduct charges, which led to the dismissal recommendation.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedenverchannel.com ...
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With those qualifications, he can replace Dean has head of the DNC.
Churchill update ping!
U Colo. news re: Churchill!
US
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Among other things, Churchill was found guilty of passing off others' work as his own (plagiarism), but also of passing off his own work as others'.
This "permits the author to create the false appearance that his claims are supported by other scholars when, in fact, he is the only source for such claims"...
http://www.homofactuspress.com/2006/05/south_end_press_needs_damage_c.htm
The Fake Indian goes down! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!
Great link. Thanks.
Thanks.
I am glad that the link still works.
Ward Churchill, the John Kerry of academia..
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
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."
I'm ashamed to say that Churchill was a product, so to speak, of Sangamon State University, now part of the Univ. of Illinois system and going by another name of Univ. of Illinois-Springfield. It was a major haven of liberals back when Churchil went through there as an undergrad. Besides all the plagiarized work(s), Churchill is a fake "native American". He tried to "portray one on TV" and was ultimately exposed for his lies and history of deceipt while being paid as a professor at Colo. It's people like him that make me fear sending my kids off to college in the future.
Hopefully by exposing his actions and the actions of the departments heads in hiring and promoting him...we can make schools of higher learning a little better.
The deptartment heads used affirmative action as a repeated excuse to advance Ward. Unfortunately there were several real native americans who did not even get an interview.
He should have a news conference where he shouts that it's the president who should be found guilty of deliberate falses assertions, misrepresentation of sources, and plagiarism. ;')
Ward Churchill would make an *excellent* running mate for whichever of the candidates the Dhimmicrats settle on for 2008.
Professor Ward Churchill Caught On Tape Advocating Terrorism vs Fellow Americans!
"Why did it take a bunch of Arabs to do what you all should have done a long time ago"
Audio link at Michell Malkin's website (included below)
Fwd --
Question from audience:
You mentioned a little bit ago, "Why did it take a bunch of Arabs to do what you all should have done a long time ago," that's my question.
Churchill: I'm gonna repeat that, tell me if I got that right: Why shouldn't we do something and how do you you move so they don't see you coming.
As to the first part, not a reason in the world that I could see. I can't find a single reason that you shouldn't in a principled way—there may be some practical considerations, such as do you know how (laughter from audience)
—you know, often these things are processes. It's not just an impulse. And certainly it's not just an event.
And the simple answer, although it probably should be more complicated, but I'm not being flip and giving the simple answer, is:
You carry the weapon. That's how they don't see it coming. You're the one…
They talk about "color blind or blind to your color." You said it yourself.
You don't send the Black Liberation Army into Wall Street to conduct an action.
You don't send the American Indian Movement into downtown Seattle to conduct an action.
Who do you send? You. Your beard shaved, your hair cut close, and wearing a banker's suit.
There's probably a whole lot more to it, you know that. But there's where you start. .."
more...
Audio link at:
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/001588.htm
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Video: Churchill advocates killing of Military Officers
Churchill: "Fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect"
Ward Churchill has made some more despicable comments. This time, he is advocating military personnel to "roll a grenade under their line officer."
Churchill: "For those of you who do, as a matter of principle, oppose war in any form, the idea of supporting a conscientious objector who's already been inducted in his combat service in Iraq might have a certain appeal.
But let me ask you this: Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit?"
"...Conscientious objection removes a given piece of cannon fodder from the fray. Fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect." - Ward Churchill, Portland, Oregon- 6/23/05
http://treyjackson.typepad.com/junction/2005/06/video_churchill.html
Your tax dollars at work.
He gets about $100,000 per year with full benefits, paid holidays, vacations, health and pension...
thanks : tax payers
Churchill is despicable!
Hey George, Some idiot with no life from Colorado is challenging the "fake indian" claim on my blog. Could you give me some of the best links that prove this claim.
Thanks in advance.
Sure :
"...Churchill thus represents the reductio ad absurdum of the contemporary university's willingness to subordinate all other values to affirmative action.
When such a grotesque fraud - a white man pretending to be an Indian,
an intellectual charlatan spewing polemical garbage festooned with phony footnotes, a shameless demagogue fabricating imaginary historical incidents to justify his pathological hatreds, an apparent plagiarist who steals and distorts the work of real scholars - manages to scam his way into a full professorship at what is still a serious research university, we know the practice of affirmative action has hit rock bottom ..."
-- Paul Campos:
"...Ward Churchill would do himself some good to express a profound apology to people he has offended and misled.
He should also come clean about his appropriated American Indian identity. "
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410293
" When one of his students, a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian, wrote a piece raising doubts about his claimed biography, he dropped her grade from an A to a C-minus."
from the NY Post...but the link is now gone.
PROF. WARD CHURCHILL'S firing offense may be having falsely filed for affirmative action status as an American Indian. :
Churchill's original 1978 application to the school for a position as a lecturer in Native American studies included a completed federal affirmative action form, on which he claimed "American Indian" ethnicity, according to records obtained Thursday by KHOW radio talk show host Dan Caplis through open records law requests to CU.
A second document obtained by Caplis, a 1990 application by Churchill for the position of associate professor of American Indian Studies, prior to his receiving tenure, also shows that Churchill claimed "American Indian" status. An affirmative action data collection form shows that 11 American Indians applied, but only two, including Churchill, were interviewed.
George do you got the links on these.
Thanks in advance.
February 8, 2005
The deeper one digs into the Ward Churchill scandal, the more amazing the story becomes.
Academic freedom must be protected, which is why I'm continuing to write about this matter. A version of academic freedom that protects Churchill from appropriate sanctions isn't sustainable either as a political or an ethical matter. Consider: Churchill has constructed his entire academic career around the claim that he is a Native American, yet it turns out there is no evidence, other than his own statements, that this is the case.
Churchill has said at various times that he is either one-sixteenth or three-sixteenths Cherokee, yet genealogical reporting by the Rocky Mountain News and others has failed to turn up any Cherokee ancestors - or any other Native Americans - in Churchill's family tree.
Why should we care one way or another? We should care because Churchill has used his supposed Indian heritage to bully his way into academia. Indeed Churchill lacks what are normally considered the minimum requirements for a tenure-track job at a research university: he never earned a doctorate, and his only degrees are a bachelor's and a master's from a then-obscure Illinois college.
Churchill's lack of conventional academic credentials was apparently compensated for, at least in part in the eyes of those who hired him at the University of Colorado, by the "fact" that he contributed to the ethnic diversity of the school's tenure-track faculty.
To the extent that Churchill was hired because he claimed to be a Native American, he would seem to be guilty of academic fraud. But the situation is worse than this.
Thomas Brown, a professor of sociology at Lamar University, has written a paper that outlines what looks like a more conventional form of academic fraud on Churchill's part. According to Brown, Churchill fabricated a story about the U.S. Army intentionally creating a smallpox epidemic among the Mandan tribe in 1837, by simply inventing almost all of the story's most crucial facts, and then attributing these "facts" to sources that say nothing of the kind.
"One has only to read the sources that Churchill cites to realize the magnitude of his fraudulent claims for them," Brown writes. "We are not dealing with a few minor errors here. We are dealing with a story that Churchill has fabricated almost entirely from scratch. The lack of rationality on Churchill's part is mind-boggling." (Brown's essay can be read here: http://hal.lamar.edu/~browntf/Churchill1.htm.)
Similar charges have been leveled against Churchill by University of New Mexico law professor John Lavelle, a Native American scholar who has documented what appear to be equally fraudulent claims on Churchill's part regarding the General Allotment Act, one of the most important federal laws dealing with Indian lands. (Lavelle also accuses Churchill of plagiarism).
The saddest aspect of Churchill's case is that, in regard to his identity, he might not be guilty of fraud in the narrowest legal sense. According to the News, Churchill has been claiming to be a Native American since his high school days in Illinois. It may well be that by this point he has genuinely convinced himself that he actually is an Indian.
Of course some people believe they're Napoleon. But that's not a good reason for giving them professorships in French history.
Paul Campos is a professor of law at the University of Colorado.
Churchill's resume says Cherokee
Churchill claimed native descent on CU application
By Kate Larsen, Camera Staff Writer
February 12, 2005
Controversial professor Ward Churchill marked an "X" next to the "American Indian or Alaskan Native" category of his 1980 University of Colorado job application. And on his 1980 resume, Churchill identified himself as "Creek/Cherokee (unenrolled)."
In recent weeks, some American Indian groups have said Churchill "fraudulently represented himself as an Indian." Some academic peers are questioning the accuracy of his work ...
http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/buffzone_news/article/0,1713,BDC_2448_3542846,00.html
Many of these links from the RMN are apparently gone.
I think that KHOW radio talk show host Dan Caplis is still around.
Looks like CBS's replacement for Katie has been found.
22 Apr 1994
" The Problem is that Ward Churchill is NOT a Native American he is causing much disention between our people and that is exactly what the whiteman would like to see.
If we are to busy fighting among ourselves than we can not do what needs to be done.
Ward has claimed all these different bloodlines but none has checked out. "
http://www.native-net.org/archive/nl/9404/0290.html
You might ask the pro-Ward people to offer some proof:
The sorry part of this is Ward Churchill has fraudulently represented himself as an Indian, and a member of the American Indian Movement, a situation that has lifted him into the position of a lecturer on Indian activism.
He has used the American Indian Movement’s chapter in Denver to attack the leadership of the official American Indian Movement with his misinformation and propaganda campaigns.
Ward Churchill has been masquerading as an Indian for years behind his dark glasses and beaded headband.
He waves around an honorary membership card that at one time was issued to anyone by the Keetoowah Tribe of Oklahoma.
Former President Bill Clinton and many others received these cards, but these cards do not qualify the holder a member of any tribe.
He has deceitfully and treacherously fooled innocent and naïve Indian community members in Denver, Colorado, as well as many other people worldwide.
Churchill does not represent, nor does he speak on behalf of the American Indian Movement.
http://www.aimovement.org/moipr/churchill05.html
>>Churchill was found guilty of deliberate false assertions, misrepresentation of sources, and plagiarism.<<
Well of course he wanted to be paid off - why should his character change now?
Thanks for the link to "PirateBallerina". I found this quote in a column there:
"As the satirist Karl Kraus pointed out (which quote I've shamelessly cribbed from The Weekly Standard), 'the secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience, so they believe they are as clever as he.' In achieving that level of stupidity, Churchill has succeeded, and judging from his audience, it was no mean feat."
http://www.pirateballerina.com/blog/entry.php?id=82
Many on the left want to hear bad news about America.
Even when it is false, they are happy to believe the lies.
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