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U. of Colorado chancellor to cut Churchill
By JUDITH KOHLER and DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writers
38 minutes ago

BOULDER, Colo. - The top official at the University of Colorado's flagship campus said Monday he intends to fire Ward Churchill, the professor who compared some World Trade Center victims to a Nazi and then landed in hot water over allegations of academic misconduct.

Interim Chancellor Philip DiStefano said Churchill has 10 days to appeal his decision to a faculty committee. Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, has denied allegations of plagiarism and other misconduct and has said he would file suit if fired.

Churchill did not immediately return telephone messages Monday.

In an essay written shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks, Churchill described some of the victims in the World Trade Center as "little Eichmanns," a reference to Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann. The essay was largely ignored until January 2005, when it came to light before Churchill was to speak at Hamilton College in upstate New York.

The essay triggered calls for Churchill to be fired, but university officials concluded he could not be dismissed because of free speech protections. They did order an investigation into allegations of academic misconduct, which concluded two weeks ago.

The school's committee on research misconduct said Churchill "has committed serious, repeated, and deliberate research misconduct."

DiStefano agreed and said he has told Churchill he plans to dismiss him.

Churchill has been relieved of academic work but will remain a paid faculty member as long as the firing is in the appeals process, university officials said.

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Ward Churchill Mocks 9/11 Victims as Being 'Tweezed into Submission'

Filmed by Walking Eagle Productions – Hundreds of leftist activists converged from The Mid-Atlantic Radical Book Fair to hear controversial Ethnic Studies Professor Ward Churchill give his speech, "Rules for Thee, but Not for Me: The Politics of 'Academic Misconduct' in a Time of Intellectual Repression." Churchill stunned parts of the audience with an off-the-cuff joke of how the passengers on the planes hijacked by terrorists during 9/11 were laughingly "tweezed into submission" and forced to fly the plane into buildings.

(PRWEB) July 14, 2006 -- On the July 4th weekend at Baltimore’s Mid-Atlantic Radical Book Fair, University of Colorado-Boulder’s Professor of Ethnic Studies, Ward Churchill, spoke to a semi-filled theater of left-wing activists from around the country. Walking Eagle Productions, a documentary film company focusing on free speech, academic freedom, and American Indian issues, filmed the speech in its entirety. It was Churchill’s first public speech given just several days after CU’s Interim Chancellor, Phil DiStefano, announced plans to fire Ward Churchill based on multiple grounds of serious research misconduct (as reported on CU's own Web site). Churchill’s speech for the event was thus titled, "Rules for Thee, but Not for Me: The Politics of 'Academic Misconduct' in a Time of Intellectual Repression."

The Book Fair hosts issued a statement of solidarity with Churchill on their web site, dismissing all of the findings by CU as part of a grand right-wing conspiracy. "Churchill has given us the best history of state repression after the 1960’s," announced one of the event hosts to the audience. "He’s become the most visible target for the right-wing in their quest to muzzle anyone who speaks out, especially radicals and progressives in the universities here."

For the first half hour, Churchill attacked CU’s Investigative report on his academic misconduct, downplaying the findings as merely "a matter of a few footnotes." Next, Churchill switched subject matter and commentary, which included:

• Equating the oppression of smokers to the oppression of ethnic minorities and the poor "Now, a little personal venom comes out here," started Churchill. "I couldn’t smoke my cigarettes without pretending I was going to be spreading nerve gas through the environment." (Soft laughter.)

"There are, right now, a list of repressive social things - Usually I get smoking and that ends it right there. All progressives suddenly decide state intervention to repress the social habits of communities of color and poor people as for their own good like it's something to be applauded because, after all, (snickering) 'I don’t like the smell!'"

• Frequent Nazi references and comparison of politicians, media pundits, and his critics to "Nazis" and "Holocaust deniers," including Bill O’Reilly, David Horowitz, and Dick Cheney. Churchill also compared CU Boulder to German university models from the WWII Nazi era.

• Digression into quality-of-life issues. "You can’t really deliver a lecture with all the skateboards sailing by, each of which is louder as it goes down concrete than a Harley-David (sic) motorcycle on full throttle. People standing on ‘em impersonating ghetto people, although usually they’re coming, in Colorado, from $180,000 a year families, so they had their baseball caps on backward and headphones plugged in as they sail out into traffic because the sign says 'Yield to Pedestrians' while they, I don’t know, what is it you do on cell phones now? You use them with mini-computers, right? Text-messaging, or something?"

After some polite applause and soft laughter, Churchill blurted out a joke regarding what he perceived as the hilarity over how passengers on the 9/11 flights were "easily" hijacked by terrorists and flown into the World Trade Center.

"You do remember, the incident which the terrorists overpowered the stewardess on the aircraft and tweezed her eyebrows with his tweezers, until she screamingly submitted to fly the plane into a building remember that one?" Joked Churchill. "Tweezers… tweezed into submission."

A smattering of nervous laughter followed, but at least one person in the audience was left with an entirely different reaction. "I was disgusted by that statement," said Peter Fotopoulos, an attendee from Churchill’s home state of Colorado. "It shows all that talk he made about mourning the suffering and deaths of Iraqi Children – that was the excuse he has given all along for his statement. Yet here he’s actually laughing about the mass murder of American citizens, including children, on those hijacked planes. Since when does any humanitarian do that – laugh about people being murdered? It was absolutely disgusting of him to do that. I had a friend who was killed in the World Trade Center. Ward’s exploited not just my friend’s death but now the murder of the flight’s passengers; he’s been laughing all the way to the bank."

"Maybe what we’re seeing is Churchill finally speaking his mind unfiltered, and it’s not a pretty picture," said Grant Crowell, a producer with the documentary film company Walking Eagle Productions (WEP), who attended of Churchill’s speaking event. "It’s a radical departure from his own writings, which may now come across as just feigned humanitarian outrage, especially when he shifts towards mocking murdered American citizens, including children."

(The complete video of the event is available on the Walking Eagle Productions media server. Part one shows a one hour segment of Ward Churchill's opening speech. Part two contains 45 minutes of Ward Churchill fielding questions from the audience, including an opening one on free speech from WEP's very own Grant Crowell. (Audo versions of part one and part two are also available for listening.)

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Pirate Ballerina stays on the (head) case. http://www.pirateballerina.com/index.php

In her essay "Lesson of Churchill fiasco: Indian studies needs clear standards", Professor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn seems to have a good grasp of the scandal that is Ward Churchill:

What it all means to ethnic studies is fairly predictable, but what it means to Indian studies, always the ''orphan'' of academia as the late Vine Deloria Jr. named it, is much more frightening. For those Indian scholars who have spent the last 30 years developing what they call an ''empowerment model'' of education at U.S. universities across the land and particularly in the West, this Churchill matter has ushered in what might become a shameful period inherent in the predictable and necessary Churchill disgrace.

Masquerading as an Indian, professionally engaging in an ''enrollment'' fiasco with a Cherokee tribe, marching in the streets of Denver as a member in good standing of the American Indian Movement, using other scholars' work as his own and interpreting his own version of history from an unfettered imagination, professor Churchill has disgraced himself and the people he presumes to represent. The shame of this fiasco is that the alternative historical narrative of America, which Churchill has claimed as his own research domain, does not have to be exaggerated or falsified. It is there for anyone to see and recount in all its bloody reality.

...but then falls into the very hole she just identified:

Indeed, the awful historical experience of American Indians of the last 500 years is a verifiable history of genocide and disenfranchisement and bare survival. The crimes of identity theft and academic lying perpetuated by Churchill are not just a matter of disrespect for an emerging discipline, as the committee suggests. They are in danger of becoming institutionalized if the University of Colorado does not understand that American Indian studies as interpreted through the ideological filter of the colonial paradigm of ethnic studies provides the impetus for such crimes.

I would like to say that the Churchill matter will not affect Indian studies and that the substantial academic work that Native scholars have achieved in the past decades will continue. Yet that is for the future to behold. We in Indian studies have often worried that our autonomous academic disciplinary development over the past 30 years has not been taken seriously by related disciplines, and we therefore have often failed to embrace ethnic studies because of its colonial ambiguity and comparative approach.

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New School Students Cheer Ward Churchill Speech
By ANNIE KARNI -- Special to the Sun
December 12, 2006

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 from the time of the country's inception to the events of September 11, 2001, which he said the country was essentially asking for.

Mr. Churchill also called the president of the New School, Robert Kerrey, a former senator of Nebraska, a "mass murder and serial killer to boot" for having served in Thanh Phong, Vietnam. Mr. Churchill also served in Vietnam, an act for which he said he has spent the rest of his life apologizing.

Mr. Churchill received cheers from the audience for comparing Mr. Kerrey to the serial killer Charles Manson. "That's who you've got moral equivalency in the president's chair at this institution," Mr. Churchill said. "How about a cage rather than a president's suite?"

Mr. Churchill was invited to the New School by a student group, the Women of Color. The university was not involved in the invitation. "We brought him here because he offers a framework in which we can conceptualize the struggles our community is dealing with," a junior at the New School, Jamila Thompson, said. "A person's work should be engaged critically, and his work allows us to build broad-based networks with Native Americans, Latinos, and anti-racist whites."

Mr. Churchill arrived on the national stage after September 11, 2001, when he wrote that many victims of the World Trade Center attacks were "little Eichmanns," comparing them to the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann because they worked as technocrats of an evil empire.

While students yesterday jumped to his defense, arguing that his "little Eichmann" statement was taken out of context when it was publicized on Fox News, Mr. Churchill yesterday seemed happier to cultivate his image as a provocative figure than to defend himself. "The only people who consider me controversial are little Eichmanns themselves," he said, again inciting peels of laughter from the audience of New School students.

While campus police were out in force and metal detectors were set up outside the auditorium for Mr. Churchill's appearance due to fear of a possible attack against the professor, the talk drew little protest from the student body.

Only one student group, the Free Thought Coalition, posted fliers on campus yesterday objecting to Mr. Churchill's appearance on campus.

Mr. Churchill's critics call him a symbol of academic free speech gone wrong and an ethnic fraud. His Native American ancestry has been called into question by some who think he is not of Native American descent, but is exploiting a culture that is not his own to propagate his politics. "He exploits their culture and has never done anything for their groups," a documentary filmmaker, Grant Crowell, who is making a film on Mr. Churchill titled "Hate U: The Politics of Teaching Hate," said. "Someone like Ward Churchill totally manipulates academic freedom and identity politics."

The University of Colorado has tried to fire Mr. Churchill, but has been unable to take such recourse against a tenured faculty member for exercising his freedom of speech.

Mr. Churchill has also been accused of research misconduct.

New School Students Cheer Ward Churchill Speech - December 12, 2006 - The New York Sun


The University of Colorado is firing Churchill for plagiarism and academic misconduct, not for exercising his freedom of speech. The findings of the panel investigating his plagiarism were unanimous as to the fact of his plagiarism and research misconduct, but split over the appropriate punishment--with the vote being 6-3 in favor of firing him.

The man is not of Native American blood, does not have all the academic credentials he claimed, has been proven guilty of plagiarism, and his supposed service in Viet Nam is at least questionable. This is a figure whom the public should believe about anything?

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Churchill supporters ready for 'D-Day'
CU increases security for today's pivotal vote
By Brittany Anas
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Supporters of Ward Churchill are calling today "D-Day" in the struggle to defend the embattled University of Colorado professor and free speech on the campus.

Meanwhile, officials on the Boulder campus plan to take extra security measures as the regents hear — behind closed doors — attorneys' arguments in Churchill's academic-misconduct case. "In any event, where feelings run high and opinions are strong, you have to take the appropriate security measures," said CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard.

The Board of Regents will vote at a public meeting late in the afternoon whether to fire Churchill, a tenured professor, because of plagiarism, fabrication and other violations an investigative panel first reported finding in his work more than a year ago.

There's been a flurry of posts on Churchill-watching blogs such as Pirate Ballerina, which has been counting down the days until today's "dismissalooza." Critics of Churchill say his case is not a political one — but rather an issue of academic integrity and an abuse of tenure, higher-education's coveted job protection.

'Preparing for the worst'

Hilliard said that as a matter of security, he couldn't discuss the measures university officials will put in place today, nor could he comment on any changes in the levels of police and security guard staffing. "We feel good about the level of security that we have," Hilliard said. "What we have to do is provide safety for the public to express their opinions, and safety for the board to get their business done."

CU Regent Pat Hayes, chairwoman of the board, said she hopes the day goes smoothly. "We are hoping for the best and preparing for the worst," she said.

In February 2005, CU canceled a speech by Churchill because of safety concerns, then allowed it to go on as scheduled after the student group hosting the event retracted claims of getting death threats.

That same month, a tussle broke out at a regents' meeting on the Churchill case. An Adams County jury in February acquitted activist Shareef Aleem, who was charged with second-degree assault after a fight with a law-enforcement officer at the meeting.

Churchill, and many of the scholars and students backing him, say the investigations, hearings and meetings over the past 2½ years have been part of a politically motivated attack on unpopular points of view.

Churchill says he expects the regents will vote to fire him today — something he said he believes they've set out to do since his 9/11 essay touched off national controversy in January 2005. The essay compared some victims of terrorism to a notorious Nazi.

Then-Gov. Bill Owens called on Churchill to be fired for his essay in the days after it became widespread.

Supporters plan peaceful events

A core group of Churchill's supporters — including CU students and professors — are urging those who join them today for an on-campus vigil and rally to keep the peace.

Among those who will publicly defend him are Margaret LeCompte, an education professor; Emma Perez, associate professor and former chairwoman of ethnic studies; Hadley Brown, a student-body president; and Ann-erika White Bird, of a group called Students for True Academic Freedom.

The pro-Churchill group plans a small rally at 7:30 a.m. on the south plaza of the University Memorial Center before the regents begin meeting. The board is scheduled to meet in public at 8 a.m. in the UMC to announce it will go into executive session.

Supporters plan to keep the vigil going while the hearing happens behind closed doors, then hold a larger rally at 3:30 p.m. before the regents vote in public on Churchill's employment fate. The university also will provide an open microphone for people to voice their opinions after the vote.

Churchill's supporters are sending a message of urgency in an attempt to rally support before the university's last official step in the dismissal case. "Our enemies are watching — this attack on Prof. Churchill is a key right-wing 'test case' for a much broader national assault," says the supporters' e-mail. "The easier they think it is to fire Ward Churchill on bogus charges of research misconduct, the more attacks we'll see on professors, staff and students, on ethnic studies and women's studies programs, and on critical thinking."

Churchill's attorney, David Lane, has said today's hearing should be public. But confidentiality rules governing dismissal-for-cause cases — which were drawn up by faculty members and adopted by the regents — call for the hearing to be private, according to CU officials.

The regents and CU president, as well as Churchill and his supporters, plan separate public appearances after the vote.

Today's vote

The University of Colorado regents will decide whether to fire professor Ward Churchill after a special meeting and hearing today. Here's a schedule of the day — including official university proceedings and demonstrations planned by supporters:

7:30 a.m.: Churchill supporters meet on the south terrace of the University Memorial Center to hold a small rally and begin staging a vigil. Organizers said they plan to hold the vigil throughout the day while the hearing happens behind closed doors.

8 a.m.: The Board of Regents will meet in public in the UMC to announce that it will go into executive session.

8:15 a.m. until at least 4 p.m.: In private, the regents will be briefed by the board's attorneys before holding a hearing.

The private hearing will include arguments from Churchill and his attorney; university counsel; and the counsel representing CU's Privilege and Tenure Committee. Each party will have a set amount of time to present its case to the board. Regents can ask questions, but no new evidence can be presented.

The regents will then deliberate.

3:30 p.m.: Churchill supporters will rejuvenate their demonstration with a large rally. They are urging those who join them to be peaceful.

4 p.m. or later: Regents will meet again in a public session in the UMC's Glenn Miller Ballroom to vote on CU President Hank Brown's recommendation that Churchill be fired.

Video of the meeting will be streamed online at http://www.cu.edu.

After the meeting: Brown and Regent Pat Hayes, chairwoman of the board, will hold a news conference in UMC Room 235. Media credentials are required, but the conference will also be streamed online. CU said an open microphone will be available at the end of the day for anybody who wants to express "their personal opinions on topics related to the events of the day."

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007...ady-for-d-day/

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Judgment day for Churchill today
Embattled CU prof may be fired today;
Regents will determine his fate in vote after closed session
By Berny Morson, Rocky Mountain News
July 24, 2007

University of Colorado ethnic-studies professor Ward Churchill faces dismissal today at the hands of the school's Board of Regents after 2 1/2 years of national controversy and investigations. Protesters backing Churchill have vowed to hold demonstrations at the Boulder campus. CU officials say police will be present.

Churchill has told Boulder's Daily Camera he expects to be fired today.

He is charged with academic misconduct, ranging from plagiarism to inventing facts and even entire historical episodes. Among the more unusual charges is that Churchill published essays under the names of other people then cited them in his footnotes as independent sources supporting his views.

A faculty investigative committee upheld the charges one year ago. The matter then crawled through an extensive appeals process, with CU President Hank Brown recommending dismissal in May.

The regents will meet today in closed session to hear the charges and Churchill's response. They will then deliberate in private but vote in public on whether to fire him.

If Churchill is dismissed, his severance pay will be one year's salary, currently $96,392. It was not immediately clear if he will continue to receive benefits such as health insurance or employer's contributions to his retirement plan, said CU Vice President Ken McConnellogue.

The money already in his retirement fund won't be affected.

He has continued to receive his salary, although he has not taught since the fall 2005 semester. Part of the time, he was on sabbatical, and he also used compensatory time off he'd accumulated for teaching extra courses in previous semesters. More recently, he has been on paid leave.

The nine regents have been silent on the case, explaining that they will act on evidence they have read and testimony at today's hearing, not public pressure. "We need to listen to what professor Churchill has to say in his testimony tomorrow, even though we have read thousands of pages of it," said Pat Hayes, chairwoman of the regents, on Monday.

Churchill was largely unknown to the public in 2005 when word spread that he had compared victims at New York's World Trade Center to "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who helped carry out the the Holocaust.

A panel of administrators ruled that Churchill's political remarks were protected by the Constitution. But they called for an investigation of his academic works.

Churchill has vowed to sue if he is fired. Legal scholars have given him little chance of prevailing in court: Judges usually defer to governing boards on personnel matters, particularly when due process has been followed.

The regents and Brown have done precisely that, said RL Widmann, an English professor who leads CU's faculty council.

About 25 faculty members have been involved in reviewing the charges against Churchill during the various stages of the investigation, Widmann said.

The regents will be closeted with a special counsel assigned by the state attorney general's office as they discuss possible actions.

The mechanics of how Churchill vacates his office in the basement of the Ketchum Building will probably be worked out with the campus' human-resources department or the dean's office, -McConnellogue said.

Churchill's wife, Natsu Saito, continues to be a member of the Georgia State University Law School faculty, an official said.

The charges

Behind the move to dismiss Ward Churchill are questions about the accuracy and integrity of his scholarly works. Findings of a faculty investigative committee released last year:

• Historical facts: Churchill manufactured events in which European Americans intentionally spread smallpox to kill Indians. In one such event, the Army is said to have distributed tainted blankets to Mandan Indians. But no evidence backs the claim.

Elsewhere, Churchill claimed the United States adopted a formal racial code to identify Indians, similar to the code used by the Nazis to identify Jews. U.S. law includes no such code, legal scholars say.

• Plagiarism: Churchill published an essay on water issues in Canada that closely resembles a pamphlet by a Canadian environmental group. He also borrowed a work on fishing rights originally published by Canadian scholar Fay Cohen.

• Falsifying sources: Churchill wrote essays under the names of other people, which he then cited as independent sources in his footnotes.

The investigative panel described the charges as serious.

Timeline

• 1978: Hired as an administrative assistant in CU's American Indian Equal Opportunities Program, which counseled American Indian students. During the next 10 years, he also lectured on campus and published essays on Indian topics.

• 1991: Hired with tenure in the communications department, bypassing the usual six-year review that precedes tenure. Faculty members in the department later say they were pressured by administrators to hire an Indian.

• Early 1990s: Churchill's ethnicity questioned by some Indians. CU declines to investigate.

• Early 1990s: Churchill's work comes under criticism in small academic journals for inaccuracies. CU ignores the criticism.

• 1997: Churchill transfers to newly formed ethnic-studies department and becomes chairman in 2002.

• Sept. 12, 2001: One day after the terrorist attacks, Churchill describes victims at New York's World Trade Center as "little Eichmanns," a reference to a notorious Nazi.

• January 2005: Americans are outraged when Churchill's previously ignored "little Eichmanns" comment is revealed by a student journalist at Hamilton College in upstate New York. Churchill speaking engagements are canceled at Hamilton and several other colleges.

• Jan. 31, 2005: Churchill steps down as chairman of CU ethnic-studies department but keeps his job as professor.

• Feb. 1, 2005: Gov. Bill Owens calls on CU to fire Churchill.

• March 24, 2005: An administrative committee determines that Churchill's "little Eichmanns" remark is protected speech but orders an investigation of plagiarism and other academic misconduct charges.

• May 2006: A five-member faculty committee finds the charges are warranted. Acting Chancellor Phil DiStefano recommends dismissal.

• July 2006: Churchill appeals to CU's Privilege and Tenure Committee. The panel's investigation is delayed for months by a court dispute with Churchill over whether CU is obligated to pay his legal bills.

• May 2007: Privilege and Tenure Committee upholds findings of the investigative committee but splits on whether to fire Churchill.

• May 25: CU President Hank Brown recommends dismissal.

• Today: Regents scheduled to conduct closed-door hearing then deliberate.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drm...642486,00.html

This case illustrates that our Universities have gone off the deep end. This guy has had over 3 years of investigations and hearings that should have been decided in less than a week.

He defrauded the university by saying he was an Indian to get hired under affirmative action policies when he was not even related to any Indian Tribe. Case closed, your fired in any other business. He lied on his application.

Churchill’s loony-left politics aside, he’s an academic fabulist, for God’s sake. There’s no way the university can retain him and hope to maintain any measure of academic seriousness. If he’s retained, they’ll have to change their student code of conduct to: “Don’t plagiarize…you know, unless you really need to.”

Can you imagine the first student who’s dismissed or denied a degree due to plagiarism? It’ll be the lawsuit from hell: “You have established a standard that such conduct is acceptable at the highest academic levels of this institution, blah, blah, blah. Therefore, you cannot hold this student to a higher standard than you hold for your tenured faculty.”

Only at Universities do they allow this kind of nonsense to protect Liberal Professors with tenure rules.

If he was a conservative, he would have been fired long ago for some trumped up violation like tripping on his shoe laces or by offending some minority group.

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The vigilant bloggers at Pirate Ballerina will be liveblogging the proceedings and protests all day. http://www.pirateballerina.com/index.php They’ve dubbed it “Dismissapalooza.” Also check out Colorado blog Slapsticks Politics, which frames the day this way: “Chickens roosting or chicken regents?” http://slapstickpolitics.blogspot.co...n-regents.html

Whatever happens, you can bet we haven’t seen the last of the king of the moonbats. Tenured radicals never die, they just bloviate away.

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Fire Churchill for dishonest practices
The CU professor has a right to make inflammatory statements, but his academic conduct is inexcusable. He should lose his job.
By The Denver Post Editorial Board
Article Last Updated: 07/23/2007 10:38:45 PM MDT

The Ward Churchill fiasco has dragged on long enough.

While it has been cast by some as an argument about academic freedom, with the University of Colorado professor painted as a man persecuted for his unpopular opinions, that's not the central issue at all.

Churchill may have drawn initial attention with his inflammatory opinions about Sept. 11 victims, but his real problem is the plagiarism and research misconduct he committed, as determined by several panels that examined his work.

When the CU regents meet today to consider Churchill's fate, they should fire him.

The Churchill affair ignited in early 2005, when the ethnic studies professor was to give a speech at an upstate New York college campus. He had written an essay in which he called World Trade Center terrorism victims "little Eichmanns," a reference to high-ranking Nazi Adolf Eichmann. The essay had sparked protests from those who didn't want him to speak at the college.

At the time, we defended his First Amendment right to make those absurd comments. We still do.

But neither the First Amendment nor principles of academic freedom are an inoculation against academic misconduct.

Soon the Churchill debate turned to his work. A CU research misconduct committee found Churchill betrayed the basic tenets of his profession. A year ago, the committee said Churchill should be fired for engaging in a "pattern of repeated, intentional misrepresentation."

The panel produced a 20-page report that said Churchill intentionally falsified his work and copied work done by others. He also, the panel concluded, engaged in ghostwriting pieces that he then cited in an effort to bolster his writings.

After the panel's revelations, it was hard to believe that Churchill was ever hired to begin with. A closer look exposed questions about that process as well.

Churchill was hired as an ethnic studies professor on a fast-track basis in 1991. But instead of teaching as an assistant or associate professor for a seven-year probationary practice, as is typical, he was hired almost immediately as a tenured professor because he supposedly had a competing offer from California State University at Northridge. Cal State officials later denied Churchill had been extended a formal job offer.

As a result of the Churchill debacle, CU set up a committee to re-examine the school's procedures for awarding tenure and its post-tenure accountability. Earlier this year, the university's Board of Regents dramatically reduced the amount of time it takes to fire a tenured professor, creating a 100-day process.

In light of the findings of academic misconduct, last month CU president Hank Brown formally asked the regents to fire Churchill. "Professor Churchill's conduct has clearly violated the University's policies on academic freedom and is inimical to the University's core academic mission," Brown wrote in a 10-page letter to the university's governing Board of Regents.

The time has come to end the spectacle that is the Ward Churchill affair. His work has made a mockery of thoughtful academic research and on that basis the regents ought to fire him.


http://test.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_6444994

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Note the AP headline to this story....



Colorado prof fired after 9-11 remarks
By DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press Writer
29 minutes ago

BOULDER, Colo. - The University of Colorado's governing board on Tuesday fired a professor whose essay likening some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi leader provoked national outrage and led to an investigation of research misconduct.

Ward Churchill, who had vowed to sue if the Board of Regents took action against him, said immediately after the 8-1 vote was announced: "New game, new game."

Three faculty committees had accused Churchill of plagiarism, falsification and other misconduct. The research allegations stem from some of Churchill's other writings, although the investigation began after the controversy over his Sept. 11 essay. "The decision was really pretty basic," said university President Hank Brown, adding that the school had little choice but to fire Churchill to protect the integrity of the university's research.

"The individual did not express regret, did not apologize, did not indicate a willingness to refrain from this type of falsification in the future," Brown said.

Churchill's essay mentioning Sept. 11 victims and Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann prompted a chorus of demands for his firing, but university officials concluded it was protected speech under the First Amendment.

Brown had recommended in May that the regents fire Churchill after faculty committees accused him of misconduct in some of his academic writing. The allegations included misrepresenting the effects of federal laws on American Indians, fabricating evidence that the Army deliberately spread smallpox to Mandan Indians in 1837, and claiming the work of a Canadian environmental group as his own.

But the essay that thrust Churchill into the national spotlight, titled "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens," was not part of the investigation.

That essay and a follow-up book argued that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were a response to a long history of U.S. abuses. Churchill said those killed in the World Trade Center collapse were "a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire" and called them "little Eichmanns."

Churchill has said Eichmann was a bureaucrat who carried out policies like the Holocaust that were planned by others but was still responsible for his own actions. Churchill wrote the piece shortly after the attacks, but it drew little notice until 2005, when a professor at Hamilton College in upstate New York called attention to it when Churchill was invited to speak there.

In the uproar that followed, the regents apologized to "all Americans" for the essay, and the Colorado Legislature labeled Churchill's remarks "evil and inflammatory."

Bill Owens, then governor of Colorado, said Churchill should be fired, and George Pataki, then governor of New York, called Churchill a "bigoted terrorist supporter."

School officials concluded Churchill couldn't be dismissed because he was exercising his First Amendment rights. But they launched the investigation into his research in other work.

A faculty committee and an interim chancellor recommended Churchill be fired. When a second committee reviewed the case, three of its five members recommended a suspension. The other two said he should be fired.

Churchill remained on the university payroll but had been out of the classroom since spring 2006, first because he was on leave and later because the school relieved him of teaching duties after the interim chancellor recommended he be fired.

The lone no vote on Tuesday came from Regent Cindy Carlisle, who was not immediately available for comment.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070725/...tTMvzAznas0NUE

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The scene earlier outside the hearing. He’s pretty snappy with those comebacks, eh?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2GdMqYPwF4&eurl=

( According to NBC Denver, those poles he’s carrying in the heckling video are a “Native American symbol.” )

Here’s the moment of truth, for posterity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs9FupCmWko&eurl=

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'I'm going nowhere' says Churchill after firing
written by: Jeffrey Wolf , Web Producer
and Nicole Vap , Executive Producer Investigative
7/24/2007 9:35:02 PM

BOULDER – The University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to fire controversial professor Ward Churchill on Tuesday evening.

The Board of Regents passed a motion to accept the recommendation from CU President Hank Brown to fire Churchill from his position in the Ethnic Studies department.

The measure passed with an 8 to 1 vote. The vote was made just after 5:30 p.m. and Cindy Carlisle was the dissenting vote. The move came after academic committees found in 2006 that Churchill was guilty of academic misconduct, including plagiarism.

The board's decision came more than an hour after it was initially expected. It is unclear what caused the delay.

Immediately after the decision was announced people in the crowd booed and some swore at the board members.

Churchill and his supporters then participated in a Native American ceremony outside of the building. "I am going nowhere," said Churchill. "This is not about break, this is not about bend, this is not about compromise."

Also after the board made its decision, Brown and Board Chair Patricia Hayes spoke with the media. "It's been a long hard day," said Hayes. "Not an easy decision for the board."

"One of the most difficult decisions a university has to face happened today and I don't think we had a choice," said Brown.

Hayes disputed the claim by Churchill that the decision to fire him was pre-determined. "The university has, over the last two and a half years, orchestrated an amazing performance, in some ways, of creating the illusion of scholarly review," said Churchill during a news conference with his attorney, David Lane. "We will be going into court to expose the nature of that fraud."

"The only surprise today was that it took as long as it took and we got one vote. I'm always surprised when somebody stands up and does the right thing," said Lane.

"(The other day) somebody asked me, 'What do you think the board is going to do?' And I didn't know," said Hayes. "I really didn't know where my fellow board members were coming from until we had the discussion today."

"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."

"At the end of the day we had to look at what these three committees had presented to us and what 25 tenured faculty had said and that was really important to all the board members," said Hayes.

CU released a statement on Tuesday evening saying, "The board's decision to dismiss is final. Professor Churchill will receive one year's salary as a tenured professor, but will be immediately relieved of his faculty post and responsibilities."

When Churchill arrived for the vote, he was carrying two very long poles, which are a Native American symbol. People with Churchill also brought drums.

About 20 Churchill supporters gathered outside of the building where the meeting took place. Among them was Russell Means, a Native American activist and actor.

Churchill initially arrived around 8 a.m. on Tuesday when the meeting began. He was wearing his signature dark glasses with jeans and a black blazer, and arrived shortly before the meeting. He was surrounded by members of the media as he walked into the University Memorial Center and hoisted himself onto a side counter. As he began cracking jokes his supporters could be seen wearing T-shirts which read "It's not about scholarship it's about politics."

Not everyone around him was a supporter however as one man, a self-described blogger, began a heated exchange with Churchill which eventually forced campus security to monitor the situation.

Churchill and Lane went before the regents in the closed door session just after 10:30 a.m.

Lane says he will file a lawsuit in Denver District Court on Wednesday claiming the regents violated Churchill's First Amendment rights. He wants the case heard by a state jury. "We are now on offense. That's one good aspect of today. We are finally going on offense," said Lane.

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.

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.

In 2006, a university committee found Churchill guilty of academic misconduct, including plagiarism and a faculty panel recommended he be demoted and suspended for a year without pay. In May, CU President Hank Brown recommended Churchill be fired.

Both Brown and Hayes said on Tuesday the board's discussion on Tuesday did not touch on Churchill's comments on 9/11. "What he said about 9/11 in his essay was not part of our discussion," said Hayes.

Both also said they were not swayed by the threat of legal action. "I don't think a great university can be intimidated by legal action," said Brown.

"We (the regents) did not discuss any possibility of a lawsuit," said Hayes. "This was an issue of what's best for the university and we had to step up to the plate and do what's best for the university,"

Hayes also said they do not believe the decision will have a chilling effect on other professors. "True academics will say this is a place they want to be," said Hayes.

"The message this sends is that the university faces up to problems and deals with them and that we are a reliable institution," said Brown.

"It sends absolutely an atrocious message to the academic community all over the country, which is: if you stick your neck out and make politically inflammatory comments, your reputation will be destroyed by the university bent on destroying you and ultimately your tenured position will be forfeited," said Lane. "To the public at large the message is: there will be a payback for free speech."

When asked what would happen if Churchill won his lawsuit he said, "Will I come back here? Yeah. Will I stay very long? I am not of retirement age now. You figure it out from there."

When asked what his emotions were, Churchill raised his fist in the air and shouted "Victory!" Many of his supporters then applauded.

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Ward Churchill returns to CU for unsanctioned class
Controversial ex-professor bars press from classroom
By Heath Urie
Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill tells a Camera reporter that media outlets are not allowed in an unsanctioned class called "ReVisioning American History" on the Boulder campus Tuesday night. Churchill is speaking at the weekly classes, organized by students.
Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill on Tuesday began what he told students would become a series of classes held at the school despite being fired from his position in July.

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Churchill elicited applause and handshakes from the majority of the 30 or so CU students and area residents who came to hear his lecture, which he titled "ReVisioning American History: Colonization, Genocide and Formation of the U.S. Settler State."

Churchill, who did not allow the Camera to attend the class, said the group would come up with various topics to discuss. "I've been invited by people who are concerned with content of the mind," Churchill said.

Churchill sparked a national furor in 2005 after his essay on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks called some victims "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who helped carry out Hitler's plan to exterminate Europe's Jews during World War II.

The controversial former professor was invited to speak in a classroom at CU's Eaton Humanities Building by a group of student supporters who rented out the space. Churchill handed out a class syllabus, which includes scheduled classes to be held Oct. 9 about colonialism, Oct. 23 on genocide and Oct. 30 about racism.

A written introduction to the class states that it "carries no credit, fulfills no institutional requirements, involves payment of no tuition, entails no paycheck to its instructor. ... It is therefore in no sense bound by the rules supposedly governing courses offered in the university catalogue."

Aaron Smith, a 24-year-old senior political science and ethnic studiesmajor, said he helped organize the class because he and other students wanted to hear what Churchill had to say. "We were deprived of his teaching," Smith said of the university's decision to fire Churchill, who taught American Indian studies. "He was one of the most valuable professors we've had on this campus."

CU regents voted 8-1 to fire Churchill because of academic-misconduct violations. Churchill has not been allowed to hold official classes on the campus since May 2006, when a panel of scholars found patterns of deliberate academic-misconduct violations, including plagiarism and fabrication.

Tuesday's class, which student organizers said would likely continue for three weeks and then reconvene in the spring for a "second semester," is not sanctioned by the university. University spokesman Bronson Hilliard on Tuesday emphasized that Churchill was speaking at a "private event."

The event drew the attendance of former Churchill students and those who had only heard his name before through media reports of his controversial tenure at CU.

Tracking Churchill

Last we knew: University of Colorado regents voted 8-1 to fire controversial professor Ward Churchill on July 26 amid accusations of academic misconduct.

Churchill said after the vote: "I am going nowhere."

Latest: Churchill appeared Tuesday night at CU's Eaton Humanities Building for what he said was the first of a series of classes, titled "ReVisioning American History: Colonization, Genocide and Formation of the U.S. Settler State." The class is not sanctioned by the university.

Next: Churchill plans to convene his class on Oct. 9, 23 and 30. A student organizer said Churchill will also return for a "spring semester."

"I'm coming into this very skeptical," said Russell Hedman, a 21-year-old senior political science major at CU. "I'm skeptical that there's something here that I'm missing — but I'm also coming into this with an open mind."

Kelly Tryba, a CU journalism instructor who was holding class next door to Churchill's lecture, was critical of Churchill for not allowing the Camera inside the classroom. "I think any student group should be able to rent out a room and have someone speak; but anyone should be able to go," she said. "The freedom of speech goes both ways."

Two men who identified themselves as event organizers turned away three male CU students at the door, calling them "agitators."

One of the men watching the door, who did not give his name, became physical with a Camera reporter who tried to enter the room — grabbing his arm and pushing him — prompting a report to police.

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2007...ed-class-prof/

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