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thepeel
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 Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: CU To Fire Ward Churchill |
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The fraud falls.
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BOULDER, Colo. -- The University of Colorado announced Monday that it will dismiss controversial professor Ward Churchill.
"Today, I issued to Professor Churchill a notice of intent to dismiss him from his faculty position at the University of Colorado Boulder," CU Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano said Monday afternoon.
Churchill has 10 days to appeal, which entails making a request to have the university president or chancellor forward the recommendation to the faculty senate Committee on Privilege and Tenure. A special panel will then conduct hearings on the matter and make a recommendation to the president on whether grounds for dismissal are supported.
Another committee found Churchill guilty of research misconduct and another panel recommended that he be fired because of "repeated and deliberate" infractions of scholarship rules.
Churchill's attorney promptly called a news conference Monday afternoon to announce that his client does intend to appeal to the tenure committee. He also mentioned going to court.
Churchill, who ignited a firestorm by calling some of the World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns" in an essay he wrote after Sept. 11, 2001, has vowed to sue the school if he was fired.
The tenured professor of ethnic studies has repeatedly denied all accusations of misconduct.
Last month, an investigative subcommittee concluded that Churchill repeatedly fabricated his research, plagiarized others' work and strayed from the "bedrock principles of scholarship."
"A university is a marketplace of ideas, a place where controversy is no stranger," said Distefano. "An opinioned discourse is applauded. But as is true of all liberties enjoyed by all Americans with freedom, comes responsibility."
Owens supported the chancellor's decision in a statement Monday. "I applaud the Chancellor's decision. If the university is the marketplace of ideas, then Mr. Churchill is the rotten fruit among hundreds of good apples," Owens said. "Hopefully we can say good riddance to Ward Churchill once and for all." |
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9424240/detail.html
He also doesn't have a PhD (and his maters is from Pineapple U) and claimed to be an Indian (he isn't) to get a "diversity hire" at CU. He would not have been hired anywhere if not for his fabricated identity. In addition, he threatened to kill (or harm) a Canadian academic who he had plagiarized. And more that I can't remember now. |
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pharflung
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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Ward Churchill, for those who have fogotten, is the fellow who called the people that died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 "little Eichmanns."
I'm all for freedom of speech and academic tenure. But this fellow is devoid of intelligence, honesty, scholarship and compassion. Why CU didn't dump him sooner is the real mystery.
With the Internet he will still be free to practice his freedom of speech, while serving fries.
Or perhaps he will be coming to a school near you in Korea soon? I hear there is an art museum that needs a curator. |
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wannago
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:36 pm Post subject: |
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Well, well....look who's actually defending this dumbass!
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/education/article/0,1299,DRMN_957_5637266,00.html
You just gotta love the ACLU.
FWIW, my brother actually had this guy as a "prof." for one class period...then he dropped the class because this guy was obviously off his rocker. That's saying a lot at CU, one of the most liberal schools around... |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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Look for more "fascist" Op-eds from people like Naomi Wolf in reaction to this...
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mack4289
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Sincinnatislink
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, this certainly discredits the left as a whole.
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Gopher
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Sincinnatislink wrote: |
| Yes, this certainly discredits the left as a whole. |
I disagree.
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Sincinnatislink
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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Your grasp of informal fallacy baffles me.
You've yet again based an argument on ad hominem.
Ward Churchill's writing (that I've read) is mediocre to above-average "part of the problem/solution" stuff. You've likely read things that reach a few similar conclusions, and agreed. For example, your beloved Uncle Tom Apologists specialize in this.
He carried this to a perfectly logical end.
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As far as Churchill's dismissal prompting further paranoia . . .
You really believe that all plagiarism and general poor practice scholarship gets punished?
This is telling:
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When his essay was brought to light in January 2005, Gov. Bill Owens, state lawmakers and relatives of Sept. 11, 2001 victims in New York immediately denounced it. University officials concluded Churchill could not be fired for the essay, but in March 2005 they launched an investigation into allegations of plagiarism and other research misconduct.
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"We can't fire you for this, but we will start investigating you three months later because someone has accused you of shitty research."
There was apparently no debate on his credibility prior to the "Eichmann essay." Note use of the verb "launch." |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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He was a fraud from head to toe. He actually called people whose works he plagiarized and threatened their lives. He didn't even have a PhD and yet had tenure ONLY because he said he was an Indian, which he isn't.
The dude deserved what he got. Regardless of what put him, initially, under the microscope. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Do you have anything besides your impressions and your cynicism to back this up?
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Sincinnatislink
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| Take a look at Bruce Cumings's "Boundary Displacement: Area Studies and International Studies during and after the Cold War" published in the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars and available online, I believe, to get a taste of what I am talking about. |
Let's start here (my words):
"The US government and multinational corporations, sometimes working very closely together, play a monopolistic role in setting the tone of political and economic discourse at the University level. This is a result of overwhelming financial resources in general."
The paper you mention (but oddly do not link) is a further exploration of the relationships , particularly re: the changes in these relationships following world war two.
I would like you to refute my claim above (in quotes). I have addressed your previous complaints.
This is not revolutionary thought, and I feel sort of dishonest calling it my own. It's common enough that providing a source is well-nigh impossible with my level of study. |
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Sincinnatislink
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| BJWD wrote: |
He was a fraud from head to toe. He actually called people whose works he plagiarized and threatened their lives. He didn't even have a PhD and yet had tenure ONLY because he said he was an Indian, which he isn't.
The dude deserved what he got. Regardless of what put him, initially, under the microscope. |
Care to cite a source?
Furthermore, you have not addressed the content of his arguments yet.
And "what put him under the microscope" = "probable cause"? |
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Sincinnatislink
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
Many in academe and on the left, the extreme ones, from where I stand at least, are alleging that the govt must have used influence to force Churchill's firing because he spoke the truth about the govt/dictatorship and 9/11. No more no less. You actually seem to validate what I have said, by the way, when you state your impressions on this.
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"Influence" is a broad term. Combine this with my post about your obscure academic paper. Once the tone of discourse is set, a community will self-censor. |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Sincinnatislink: what evidence do you have to offer that there was anything at all involved in Churchill's firing besides what we now know?
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Sincinnatislink wrote: |
| BJWD wrote: |
He was a fraud from head to toe. He actually called people whose works he plagiarized and threatened their lives. He didn't even have a PhD and yet had tenure ONLY because he said he was an Indian, which he isn't.
The dude deserved what he got. Regardless of what put him, initially, under the microscope. |
Care to cite a source?
Furthermore, you have not addressed the content of his arguments yet.
And "what put him under the microscope" = "probable cause"? |
Source for what? What content of what argument? Are you high? |
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