Ward Churchill Fired

[razorsharp]

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The University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to terminate controversial professor Ward Churchill on Tuesday evening. </p>

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<p>“This case was an example not of mistakes, but an effort to falsify history and fabricate history and in the final analysis, this individual did not express regret or apologize,” said Brown. “This is a faculty that has an outstanding reputation and this move today protects that reputation.”</p>

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<p>Churchill touched off a firestorm in 2005 after an essay surfaced which he wrote shortly after 9/11 likening some victims in the World Trade Center to Adolf Eichmann, who helped carry out the Holocaust. </p>

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<p>University officials concluded he could not be fired for his comments because they were protected by the First Amendment, but they launched an investigation into allegations that he fabricated or falsified his research and plagiarized the work of others.

Good Riddance!</p>

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[marite]

<p>Ditto from me!</p>

[originaloog]

<p>Setting aside the article that got him notice, his other work was found to be less than scholarly with claims of plagarism and falsified research.</p>

<p>Good riddance from me too.</p>

[ColoradoMomof2]

<p>I’ve got one kid that attends CU-Boulder and I’ll have another one there in a year. I agree - good riddance!!</p>

<p>Unfortunately, we’re going to have to hear about this locally for another couple of years as the whole thing drags through the appeal process.</p>

[katliamom]

<p>A student would have been expelled immediately had he/she been found to have committed a fraction of Churchill’s academic fraud…</p>

[collegemom16]

<p>True that idiotic as Ward Churchill’s comments were they are protected by the free speech clause of the Consitution.
However, universities do have rules regarding plagiarism and passing off someone elses work as your own. Also outright falsification of history is against the rules.
For example: Questioning whether retreating Confederate cavalry or Sherman’s troops set Atlanta afire is a legitimate question often asked by historians, however to assert that Grant had Lincoln shot is outright falsification of history.
To ask what are other causes of global warming (sunspot or volcanic activity, oceanic conveyor effect etc.) other than “straight white guys in SUV’s” is a legitimate question of science. To assert that the earth is flat is outright falsification of science.
Apparently Churchill plagiarized and falsified science. Good riddance!</p>

[greennblue]

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There is a decent amount of evidence to support the belief that Secretary of War Stanton led a conspiracy to kill not only Lincoln, but quite a few cabinet members.

Nope. Maybe you’re referring to the old book Why was Lincoln Murdered by Otto Eisenschiml. It has been discredited.</p>

[jym626]

<p>Finally they have gotten rid of that looney-tune! A great day for Colorado.</p>

[noobie]

<p>An example of his fraud: He has represented himself as a Native American throughout this, and a member of the American Indian Movement. Here is what Dennis Banks, CEO of AIM, has to say:</p>

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@Dennis Banks

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.</p>

<p>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.

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[system]

<p>I thought it was a bad spelling of “Winston” churchill !</p>