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We learned yesterday that veterans of the United States Army and Marine Corps who have fought for their country and have been awarded the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, the Navy Cross and other decorations are too controversial to be allowed inside a public high school in Minnesota... SMSU is a public, taxpayer-funded institution, just like Forest Lake High School. Forest Lake students who go there will be safe, no doubt, from whatever dangers are posed by touring veterans who want to talk about their experiences in America's armed forces. But ... The Sesquicentennial, if you missed the reference, is...

The ethnic studies professor filed a complaint in July saying his First Amendment rights were violated when he was fired for research misconduct. He is seeking reinstatement. The University of Colorado filed motions Tuesday asking a Denver district judge to dismiss former CU professor Ward Churchill's lawsuit against the school. Churchill, who taught ethnic studies, filed a complaint in July, charging that the regents and the school violated his First Amendment rights to free speech and denied him due process in his termination. School officials responded Tuesday, saying the regents have immunity from a lawsuit over their decision to fire...

The firing of Ward Churchill for academic incompetence and fraud is long overdue. The fact that the chairman of the Colorado University regents said it was "not an easy decision to make" reminds us how this scandal lifts the lid on the vast corruption of the academic process that tenured radicals have accomplished in the last several decades. Churchill had no academic credential to be hired in the first place. His degree was an MA in graphic arts -- he was a painter -- bestowed by a rinky dink experimental college which is now defunct. He got an affirmative action...

IT'S said that a "picture is worth a thousand words." For more than 25 years, conservative writers have been telling anyone who would listen that our higher education system was broken - that indoctrination was trumping education and our kids were throwing away their tuition dollars propping up vicious relics of the '60s and supporting universities that were increasingly repressive. These words, coming from such luminaries as Allan Bloom, Dinesh D'Souza, Alan Charles Kors and David Horowitz, persuaded much of the conservative chattering class that something was wrong. But mainstream Americans seemed unconcerned, with their own (often fond) college memories...

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University Expected to Fire Controversial Professor Today By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor July 24, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - Ward Churchill's own lawyer expects the tenured University of Colorado professor to be fired on Tuesday. "Ward Churchill will be fired, and Wednesday, I'll be filing a lawsuit" over free-speech rights," the Denver Post quoted attorney David Lane as saying. The university's governing board plans to hold a closed session on the Boulder campus today, and a decision on Churchill is expected in the middle of the afternoon. According to the Denver Post, Churchill's supporters are planning to show their support at...

DENVER, (AP) -- The president of the University of Colorado has recommended that a professor who likened some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi should be fired, according to the professor and the school. Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, has denied the allegations and threatened a lawsuit if he is dismissed. CU President Hank Brown made the recommendation in a 10-page letter sent to the chair of the committee that handles tenure issues. University spokeswoman Michele McKinney confirmed published reports about the recommendation Monday but said the school would not make the letter public. The university's governing...

CU committee would give Churchill a virtual pass For anyone who cares about the integrity of American higher education, recent reports that the University of Colorado's Privilege and Tenure Committee has recommended professor Ward Churchill be suspended for a year but not fired is a blow to the stomach. And bad news for CU, too. Don't get us wrong. We don't believe for a moment that President Hank Brown will actually adopt the committee's advice and let Churchill remain as a permanent blight on the Boulder campus. At the end of this month Brown will, we remain confident

Lawyer: Suspension recommended for prof. 16 minutes ago A University of Colorado committee has recommended that a controversial professor accused of faulty research be suspended for one year rather than fired, his attorney said. Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, touched off a national firestorm with an essay that compared some of the 2001 World Trade Center victims to Adolf Eichmann, a key planner of the Holocaust. It was some of his other work, however, that led an interim chancellor of the Boulder campus and an another committee to recommended Churchill be fired. The professor was accused of...

A couple of years back, the University of Colorado forged a nonbinding agreement with legislators, promising to protect and nurture ideological diversity on campus. In fact, it was only last month that CU president Hank Brown expressed his apprehension to regents about the lack of movement on this front. Well, if Brown is serious about this endeavor, he should make it a priority to investigate the firing of social conservative CU instructor Phil Mitchell - and not for the reasons you may suspect. Mitchell, whose plight I first wrote about two years ago, believes that publicity surrounding CU's initial attempt...

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...

New School Students Cheer Ward Churchill Speech By ANNIE KARNI Special to the Sun December 12, 2006 Heuichul Kim An ethnic studies professor from the University of Colorado, Ward Churchill, received a standing ovation last night from a crowd of more than 200 New School students after blaming the 2001 World Trade Center attacks on America's support of Israel and its sanctions against Iraq in 1996. In a two-hour speech at the New School titled "Sterilizing History: The Fabrication of Innocent Americans," delivered without notes, Mr. Churchill traced what he called a pattern of mass murder as American foreign policy...

A professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Ward Churchill — who ignited a national furor with his description of some of the World Trade Center employees killed on September 11, 2001, as "little Eichmanns" — is scheduled to speak Monday in New York at the New School. At the invitation of the New School's Women of Color student group, which is funding the event from the university's student fees, Mr. Churchill will give a talk titled "Sterilizing History: The Fabrication of ‘Innocent Americans,'" in which he will discuss ... the history of native cultures. Mr. Churchill is a...

Please take a look at this. Solomon Little Owl, the democrat candidate for Colorado Senate District 13 has a Ward Churchill book on the recommended reading list of their department!He is running against Scott Renfroe, Republican, for District 13 - Weld County.Perhaps this needs more publicity, Freepers.... Link here

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...

Tonight, embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill issued a statement defending his scholarship and threatening the school for attempting to fire him. CU announced on Monday a decision to terminate Churchill, who began to be investigated for academic misconduct after an essay he wrote compared victims of the September 11th terrorist attack to an infamous Nazi. Statement released Tuesday by University of Colorado-Boulder professor Ward Churchill: It was quite predictable that Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano would recommend that I be fired from my tenured professorship at the University of Colorado/Boulder. After all, he was effectively ordered to find some...

The interim chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder plans to announce at 2 p.m. today whether CU will fire ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill. A majority of professors on a university committee that investigates academic misconduct recommended two weeks ago that Churchill be fired for a "pattern of repeated, intentional misrepresentation." In a secret ballot, six committee members recommended dismissal and three recommended suspension without pay. Two of the three recommended a five-year suspension and one a two-year suspension. In a 20-page report, the committee agreed with a May investigative committee report that Churchill intentionally falsified his research,...

It's not always easy for university administrators to discern authentic Native professors from those who wish they were - or try to be. Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado tops the list of poseur professors. Throughout the years, he's become a magnet for lost Indians and Native romanticists. But his disputed personal claim of being Cherokee falls below a damning list of professional problems. And on Tuesday, a CU committee recommended firing the ethnic studies professor for research misconduct. This is no light charge. It's the first time the CU Standing Committee on Research Misconduct has voted to ax...

David Horowitz - Ward Churchill Debate From George Washington University to Air on C-SPAN Saturday, 8 EDT. The topic was Politics in the Classroom.

A News investigation of the charges before a CU panel reveals strong evidence of possible misconduct by the professor ... "You are not qualified to assess my scholarship ... I'm not going to spend the rest of my life talking about my ancestry." — Ward Churchill Shadows of doubt A News investigation finds problems in all four major areas before CU panel. The charge: Fabrication The charge: Plagiarism Did Churchill commit plagiarism by publishing the work of others as his own? Our findings: An essay he "prepared" for a book was actually taken from a Canadian scholar. The charge: Mischaracterization...

Did anyone catch the debate with Hannity/Horowitz versus Ward Churchill? I flipped over to it apparently as it was just beginning. Ward Churchill was extremely disrespectful, rarely made sense, and didn't defend his position. Sean Hannity used his typical "that's outrageous" tactics and really didn't address OR refute the points. Alan kind of danced back and forth between the two, but I must respect him for trying to pin the elusive Churchill down. Horowitz got next to no time, unless they'd talked to him before I came in, but it seemed like he was mismatched anyway, because he never addressed...

    If people expected to see a bloody clash between a fire-breathing leftist and a ranting right-winger, that was some other monster movie. Instead, two equally controversial men - liberal University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill and conservative author David Horowitz - put on a genial display of good manners and polysyllabic brilliance Thursday night in a much-hyped debate about ideology in the classroom. Organizers billed the event on stage at George Washington University as "Academia's Royal Rumble." The two combatants struck each another with the longest words they could find - many of them so long they would...

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On April 6-7, 2006, Students for Academic Freedom will host its First National Academic Freedom Conference featuring a debate between Students for Academic Freedom Chairman David Horowitz and University of Colorado-Boulder Professor Ward Churchill. The topic for debate will be: “Can Politics Be Taken Out Of The Classroom, and Should It Be?” The debate will be held Thursday evening on the campus of George Washington University in Washington, DC. Young America’s Foundation and the Center for the Study of Popular Culture are the co-hosts of the debate. Seating for the debate is limited and will be determined by George Washington...

A high school social studies teacher who was put on leave after comparing President Bush's State of the Union address to speeches made by Adolf Hitler defended his lecture on Tuesday, saying he was trying to encourage students to think. "My job as a teacher is to challenge students to think critically about issues that are affecting our world and our society," Jay Bennish said on NBC's "Today Show." Bennish is on paid leave from Overland High School in suburban Aurora, Colo., while Cherry Creek School District investigates whether his Feb. 1 lecture violated a policy requiring that balancing viewpoints...

The Associated Press reached a new level of incompetence, and the "news" industry they serve doesn’t seem to care. If you want political opinion, you’ll find it in Associated Press dispatches. If you want news, you might have to read conservative opinion columns. On February 22nd, Walter Williams, a Townhall.com columnist, scooped the mainstream media. Williams reported that high school teacher Jay Bennish lectured his geography class stating: 1) "[President Bush’s State of the Union Speech] sounds a lot like the things Adolf Hitler used to say." 2) "Bush is threatening the whole planet." 3) "[The] U.S. wants to keep...

COLORADO high-school sophomore Sean Allen couldn't convince his father that his geography teacher was as over-the-top as he contended. So Allen taped one of his teacher's rants on his MP3 player. Too bad for Jay Bennish: His 20 minute lecture ended up on talk radio. As aired on Mike Rosen's show, Bennish said President Bush talks like Hitler: "I'm not saying that Bush and Hitler are exactly the same," but that the two share "eerie similarities." Peruvians and Iranians arguably have "a right to bomb North Carolina" because the state grows tobacco. On Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaeda operatives were...

by Mark Finkelstein March 7, 2006 Turns out the real culprit in the Colorado kerfluffle over the teacher who compared Pres. Bush to Hitler is . . . the student who complained about it. Just ask Matt Lauer. Interviewing teacher Jay Bennish this morning, Lauer laid out this sympathetic scenario: Lauer: "The family here, the student's family, didn't go to the school board with this tape." Bennish: "They never contacted me." Lauer: "They shopped it around to conservative media outlets and finally released it to one and created an uproar. On the tape you can hear Sean Allen [the student...

Student 'starting to get crucified,' his dad says By Julie Poppen, Rocky Mountain News March 4, 2006 Sean Allen's dad says he isn't handling this week's media attention and threats as well as his son. "Sean has handled this way better than his father," Jeff Allen, Sean's dad, said in an interview with Sean Hannity, syndicated talk show host with Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes. "To read some of these e-mails that are attacking Sean is just devastating," he said. "It looks like the tactic is to turn it around, to make it about Sean and not about the...

March 2, 2006 — A Colorado school is in upheaval following the suspension of a teacher who was recorded comparing President Bush's rhetoric to that of Adolf Hitler. More than 100 students at Overland High School in Aurora, Colo., walked out of class this morning to protest the decision to put geography teacher Jay Bennish on administrative leave. The school administration made the move after a student went public with a 20-minute recording of Bennish's comments to his class. In the tape, the teacher is heard saying there were similarities between remarks Bush made in his State of the Union...

I have been organizing a Freep for Michelle Malkin on Wednesday March 1st and just sent this email to Ward Churchill, inviting him to our Freep. Jenny Hatch

At least two distinct groups of early humans colonized the Americas, a new study says, reviving the debate about who the first Americans were and when they arrived. Anthropologists Walter Neves and Mark Hubbe studied 81 skulls of early humans from South America and found them to be different from both modern and ancient Native Americans. The 7,500- to 11,000-year-old remains suggest that the oldest settlers of the Americas came from different genetic stock than more recent Native Americans. Modern Native Americans share traits with Mongoloid peoples of Mongolia, China, and Siberia, the researchers say. But Neves and Hubbe found...

Clarence Ray Allen, the next inmate scheduled to die in San Quentin State Prison's execution chamber, may pose a quandary as vexing for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Stanley Tookie Williams. Allen, who has spent more than a quarter-century on Death Row, is slated to die by lethal injection Jan. 17. He would be the oldest and most infirm prisoner executed in the United States since the death penalty was restored in 1977, according to his lawyers. Allen, who turns 76 on Jan. 16, uses a wheelchair. An advanced case of diabetes has left him legally blind. He suffered a heart...

A few dozen people gathered in front of the state Capitol on Monday to protest the execution of Stanley Tookie Williams and also to denounce police brutality and what they say is poor media coverage of that issue. The rally was organized by Earl Armstrong, whose brother, Thomas Charles Armstrong, was injured during an encounter with Denver police on Nov. 11. Thomas Armstrong was scheduled to appear at the rally but did not show up. "He's signing off the life and death of a man he's not fit to lick the boots of," Churchill said.

Professor's attorney: CU 'backs down,' will allow comp time... Ward Churchill will enjoy a spring semester paid break from teaching... Churchill had requested a sabbatical next semester. CU has not yet ruled on that request... David Lane, the attorney for the controversial University of Colorado ethnic studies professor... Instead of waiting for that decision - which may not come until December - Lane said that Churchill asked that he be permitted to "un-bank" two courses worth of extra time he has already logged in CU classrooms. "They said, 'No, you can't un-bank courses,' " Lane said. "So I sent them...

Here is the detailed lists of protests from the moonbats...... --------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON, DC 11 AM at Lafayette Park near the White House dc@worldcantwait.org RESIST OR DIE! NO SCHOOL NOV 2! Organize your campus. Get in touch: youth_students@worldcantwait.org LOCAL EVENTS ARIZONA TUCSON: 12 PM, Intersection of Church and Congress (downtown, by the Convention Center) twcwtucson@hotmail.com CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY: Berkeley@worldcantwait.org LOS ANGELES: 12 PM, Actions along Wilshire Blvd from Downtown to Santa Monica; 5:00 PM, rally at the Westwood Federal Building (Wilshire & Westwood Blvds.) worldcantwait_la@yahoo.com, 213-926-5717 SACRAMENTO: 5 PM, Cesar Chavez Park (Downtown) carofkings@hotmail.com SAN DIEGO: sandiego@worldcantwait.org, 619-868-0819 SAN...

Looks like Dr. Harvette Grey, head of the DePaul Cultural Center, is up to some chicanery in publicizing Ward Churchill's upcoming hate rants at DePaul next week. Sent my way by an anonymous tipster: Old listing: (I added the bold print.) October 20, 2005 Lecture: Ward Churchill -Open to DePaul Community (5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Student Center 314-A) October 21, 2005 Multicultural Human Rights Education Workshop (2:00 p.m.--4:30 p.m., Student Center 314-B) -Ward Churchill For Student Organizations Only Cached URL: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:c9HKxOXFAgEJ:studentaffairs.depaul.edu/culturalcenter/events.html+&hl=en&client=firefox-a New listing: October 20, 2005 Lecture: Ward Churchill -Open to DePaul Community (5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., Student...

Ward Churchill is returning to the Midwest on October 20th. This time, he is going to a much more liberal bastion, Depaul University. He is not welcomed there by most of the people, however. We will be assisting local freepers and Depaul College Republicans in showing, once again, that fake indians who dishonor the victims of 9/11 and our troops are not welcome. Here is a flyer from Depaul University detailing when ward churchill will be coming, and where to go.

Shoreline Community College Nov. 8, 20057:30 PM Artists & Lecture Series: Ward Churchill 7:30 pm • SCC Gym Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Band Cherokee) is one of the most outspoken of Native American activists and scholars in North America and a leading analyst of indigenous issues. He is a Professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado. Churchill serves as Associate Director of the Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America at the institution. He is also co-director of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement and vice chair of the...

A few weeks back I posted a flyer that was being handed out in Chicago. Well, on my travels this past week I have come across another shocking poster hanging in my school's cafeteria. It publicizes a lecture of the Anti-American professor Ward Churchill on Oct 20 at Depaul University, and the worst part, is this is a school-sponsored lecture. Have a look at the scanned poster I have uploaded for everyone to see. Hopefully some Freepers can help me by emailing the address listed on the flyer and telling them you disapprove of this scum coming to my school....

DENVER — The University of Colorado has dropped its investigation into the American Indian heritage of the professor who came under fire for likening Sept. 11 victims to an infamous Nazi, the professor himself says. Full article at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166489,00.html

DENVER (AP) - The University of Colorado has dropped its investigation into the American Indian heritage of the professor who came under fire for likening Sept. 11 victims to an infamous Nazi, the professor himself says. A letter from the university dated Friday said a faculty panel decided to drop the matter, Ward Churchill said Monday. "There's no basis to proceed," Churchill quoted the letter as saying, later adding: "It should have never been an issue". "It can be taken as that 'we're not functioning as boards of racial purity with a board of white guys that sit around and...

BOULDER - Ward Churchill's lawyer said a decision to put the professor's sabbatical on hold amounts to retribution and that he'll likely will file a federal lawsuit. Denver lawyer David Lane responded Friday to the University of Colorado's decision to delay approval of the sabbatical pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of plagiarism and research misconduct against Churchill. A subcommittee of the university's Standing Committee on Research Misconduct is expected to report its findings soon to the full committee, which would decide whether to order a full investigation of Churchill. If it doesn't, his request for a sabbatical...

Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

Here is the list so far for sponcers to this hate America fest: ANSWER Code Pink UFPJ NION Al Awda World Workers Party Ruckas Revolutionary Communist party Moveon.org ACORN Campus Antiwar Network International Socialist Org Greens Party Muslim Student Association CPUSA

Claiming Ward Churchill is possessed by demons, a Christian group diverted their protest to march near the University of Colorado professor's office. "That's the power of Christ, to set the captive free from the lies and from those demons that are inhabiting Ward," the Rev. Flip Benham, of Concord, N.C., told more than 100 members of Operation Save America who traveled to Boulder Tuesday from the group's convention in Denver, according to the Rocky Mountain News. They were in the college town to protest two clinics that perform abortions, but they turned their white and yellow church bus toward CU's...

At least three times, Ward Churchill has taken other people's work and published it without their permission, the Rocky Mountain News has found. In doing so, he has sometimes changed their words and, in one case, even added erroneous information. And in doing so, the prolific University of Colorado professor violated copyright law, legal experts said. "He should have gotten permission," said Barbara Weil Laff, a Denver attorney who specializes in intellectual property copyright law. "I would assume that someone who writes books for a living would understand copyright law." Churchill declined to comment on the matter. What Churchill did...

Ward Churchill's assertion that he wrote five essays as a ghostwriter for colleagues has become a line of questioning in the University of Colorado's inquiry into his alleged academic misconduct, his attorney said. Churchill said he is prepared to defend what he called "a reasonably standard practice" in academia - a characterization disputed by some national academic leaders. His attorney, David Lane, argued that the issue should not even be considered because it is outside the parameters of CU's stated interest in Churchill's alleged plagiarism. "This is something they have now stumbled upon," Lane said Wednesday. "Whatever it takes to...

Cherokee band says Churchill's claim of membership a fraud By Charlie Brennan, Rocky Mountain News May 18, 2005 Ward Churchill's claim of membership in the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians is fraudulent, according to a scathing statement released by the tribal office. The statement, issued May 9 in the name of the tribal leader, Chief George Wickliffe, and posted on its Web site Tuesday, does not mince words: "The United Keetoowah Band would like to make it clear that Mr. Churchill IS NOT a member of the Keetoowah Band and was only given an honorary 'associate membership' in the...

The taxpayers of the state of Colorado must be proud and pleased as punch to know that over 96,000 of their tax dollars is being spent feeding and clothing Ward Churchill, and that he feels that there is nothing they can do to stop his constant smearing of the US of A, whilst snarfing all the goodies that his cushy professorial lifestyle can provide him - only in this country. Talk about nerve! Only in America can a wealthy college professor whine and carp about the evils of the society that he feeds off of so well. When I say...