Er ... Ward Churchill. He’s that forgotten.
W.C's quite a character from the Way-Back Machine alright.
Like Churchill, this new William Penn joker is also supposedly connected to an American Indian past--shooting arrows into the nasty palefaces on every side.
"William S. Penn (born 1949) is a mixed-race Nez Perce author and English professor at Michigan State. His work explores the issues his father faced coming to terms with his Indian heritage. His work may be classified as magical realism.--Wiki
Here's another one of Penn's students voicing an opinion about the tenured professor's classroom performance.
"Penn is easily the worst professor I've ever had, Creative Writing or otherwise. Any of the people who gave him anything over a 2.5 on this site were clearly part of his suck-up posse. Penn is racist, sexist, ignorant, and downright offensive. Though he can write--from the one story of his I've seen--he is clearly self-obsessed and spends every single lecture he can verbally masturbating. Rather than tearing down students' work in order to encourage them to do better like Diane Wakoski does, Penn merely insults his students' writing like a bully on a playground. He does it to impress his posse and feel superior. I can't believe I not only paid for the class, but also for the piece of **** course pack we used literally twice. I don't know how this man got tenure. Someone should do something about this asap."