7/24/2007
Ward Churchill
The University of Colorado Board of Regents met in closed session in Boulder Tuesday to decide the fate of controversial professor Ward Churchill, who was fired by UCB president Hank Brown on charges of plagiarism. (Fox)
Is he history yet?
Waiting. In honor of this historical event,
Grant Crowell has two good song parodies especially for Dismissapalooza:
“Ward Churchill’s Sleezy”
“Non-Indian Outlaw”
pickup the word doc with the words from Pirate Ballerina. These are sure to be hits.
Also, don’t miss seeing some great pix of Ward, his dog Benji, assorted Marxists and snarky narrative from Drunkablog
It’s hard to live blog an event when the audio has mysteriously been stricken, and the session was closed to the public. Still, we hope to find telltale signs of what happened..maybe in the form of an associate membership in smoke signals…from the Keetoowah Band Cherokee.
Update 7/25: University fires controversial professor
The Boulder, Colo., school’s regents say Ward Churchill is dismissed over fraud and plagiarism, not a post-9/11 essay.
The university system’s regents insisted that their decision was unrelated to Churchill’s 2001 essay that called workers in the World Trade Center “little Eichmanns,” a reference to Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was in charge of sending Jews to death camps.
They said they were acting because a faculty committee had found that Churchill, 59, a tenured professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, had committed plagiarism and fraudulent research in other writings.
“I’m not sure we had much of a choice,” said University of Colorado President Hank Brown, whose recommendation to dismiss Churchill was upheld by the regents. “The integrity of our research is an integral part of our university.”
July 31st, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Shades of Ward Churchill
Ward Churchill had a friend, Ruben G. Mendoza, a teaching assistant at the University of Colorado, Denver. Ruben’s department Chair Dr. Moore, for abusing students, booted him from the university, against which Mendoza promptly filed suit. Ruben, an ersatz Chicano, resurfaced as an activist, and got fast-tracked to tenure through one Steven F. Arvizu, at CSU Monterey Bay. Mendoza became the nosebleed of the fledgling university. Churchill was invited to CSUMB by Ruben to speak at a weeklong gathering of the clan. Mendoza also engages in academic misconduct, so far without consequence. The Duke lacrosse team fiasco shows that educators have created a phony cultural paradigm that distorts reality. And, no one exploits phony paradigms, obfuscates truth, or games the system like the Clintons. Point being, miscreants like Churchill and Mendoza have powerful political backers: the fish rots from the head.
I Got Your University; Right Here
The Taliban might as well as run the university. -David Horowitz
Set the Wayback Machine for 23 August 1995: a hot day in the nation’s capitol. But 3000 miles due west on California’s Central Coast, a constellation of events was unfolding that would have a profound effect on Western civilization; plunge it into decades of war. Yet, this cataclysmic upheaval was only part of the plan. Bill Clinton picked up the telephone. It was his Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, calling from a payphone in Monterey. Bill held the receiver at arms length and gazed at the tasteful floral arrangement that adorned the Oval Office. Leon’s disembodied voice filled the room. What now, asked Hillary. It’s that damn college, mouthed Bill. There was, no getting out. Hillary nodded, just tell Leon he’ll get whatever he needs: http://theseedsof9-11.com