School can't locate Churchill's thesis: UI officials not sure master's paper was required

Rocky Mountain News ^ | 2/23/05 | Berny Morson

[F16Fighter]

Thank you Ward Churchill!

Single-handedly, this man has done more to expose academia as a rats' nest of intellectual fraud and front for anti-Americanism, than the last 20 years of public conservative discourse.

[ThinkPlease]

A Thesis is not always required for a Master's Degree. I believe Masters of Arts degrees require a thesis, but Masters of Science degrees do not, but I believe that varies from school to school. I, for example, have a Masters in a science, but I did not have to write a thesis. Many places allow you to walk away with a Masters after completing coursework, but not all.

[Alberta's Child]

Based on what I've seen here, Sangamon State wasn't even one of the top 50 schools in Springfield, IL.

[Phsstpok]

Proposals for self-designed majors were given extensive faculty review, he said.

ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

We have a basic matter/anti-matter class contradiction. Expect this diploma mill to explode into it's constituent energy at any moment.

Maybe it'll spare the Duff brewery.

[freespirited]

Something else I just noticed on the resume: look at his 'Military record'. Part of it is smudged but I can make out "Public Information Specialist" (sounds like: 'domestic engineer') and that he wrote news releases. I thought "Chief" claimed a lot of 'trigger-time' in the bush, back in the `Nam, know what I mean? But looks like he's just another forked-tongue, REMFing Remington Raider.

If you go to the Pirate Ballerina site and scroll down to the section on Personal History, the second paragraph is about his real and imagined military history.

http://www.pirateballerina.com/index.php

[radiohead]

"department head" could just mean the guy who missed the most faculty meetings

LOL. I think they're joking about that at my school, but they do say you could wind up being 'volunteered' for the more odious work if you aren't at a faculty meeting.

[The Great RJ]

That's pretty lame. I had to pay dearly to have my Masters thesis printed on special archive paper and hard cover bound with a copy deposited in the university library (where I'm sure it is still gathering dust).

[justshutupandtakeit]

Lol

[kellynla]

"Pubic Information Specialist" U.S. Army, Viet Nam
I was in the Marines not the Army but is a "Public Information Specialist" like a Remington Raider or was he a Disc Jockey? LOL
Another "Al Gore war hero!"

Another lie, this clown has been claiming for years he was in Special Forces in Nam!

And he's about as Creek/Cherokee as my cat! LMAO

Semper Fi,
Kelly

[HMFIC]

Oh yeah. The only BUSH this turd got into belonged to some skanky mamasan in a whore bar in Saigon.

REMF!

[vrwinger]

I agree... I earned an MBA from an accredited university in 2003 and did not need to write a Masters' Thesis. I wish FReepers would not just dismiss out-of-hand a masters degree just because it did not require a thesis. There may be OTHER reasons to dismiss a degree, but that shouldn't be one of them.

[NathanR]

>>A Master's degree in only one year?<<

Impossible! Especially a non-thesis masters.

Not likely, but not impossible either. I received a BS in Math, from a small liberal arts College in '67, and a MS in Math in '69 from UC Riverside. I did not have to write a thesis, but had to take 36 quarter hours of graduate level Math courses (two classes a day, three days a week), take a language exam, and two qualifying exams. That was it. One could pass the course requirements, by either taking four classes a quarter, instead of two, or by taking the course requirements as an undergraduate in the same school.

Also, one does not need a PhD to teach in the big universities, you just have to impress the hiring committee.

[kellynla]

Bravo!
well said!

[Rate_Determining_Step]

I AM INVINCIBLE!

[Ruth A.]

Maybe that explains his 4.0 GPA. As if I believe that, too.

[tumblindice]

thanks, will do.

[Bob]

So, let me see here, we have a fully tenured head of a department at a State University in Colorado, and he does not have a PhD?

Neither he nor the university has ever claimed that he had a PhD. His purported Native American ethnic background was supposed to have compensated for the lack of one. (Yeah, riiiight.)

[thombo]

Come on folks this should be a no brainer.No masters thesis?No PhD?No problem!Minorities are held to different standards.Ward's hatred of the US along with his American Indian(?)heritage were all the faculty at UofC required.

[Pearls Before Swine]

However, Larry Summers, a man with a brilliant background, genuine credentials for his position, and a full-fledged member of the liberal establishment, makes one speculative remark, in an professional academic context, about why women as a group do not do as well in hard sciences as men, is subjected to a full, hysterical, screeching attack and is forced to do Maoist self-criticism. Few professors, particularly at Harvard, are making any effort to defend Summers' academic freedom, although that is exactly what he was responsibly exercising in a forum specifically designed for its exercise.

Right on. I had a doc appointment today and in the waiting room, today's Boston Globe front page had a story on Summers. Prominently featured was a quote from an attacking faculty member saying he ought to go because his comments fostered an intellectually dishonest climate. How's that for disingenous, twisted rhetoric? Earth to Alice -- beam me up to the Red Queen!

[N. Theknow]

You'd think, being the farce that he is--he would try and be a little low key and not say outlandish things that draw attention to himself.

On second thought, he's been saying these things for years and no one has probably made any hay over them so he figured he was safe to continue. Maybe we really are changing the climate....

BINGO!

Liberals and the liberal/socialist media have been getting away with so much since the 1960's, they feel they are above scrutiny.

Guaran-by-damn-tee that Churchhill's antics would have been completely ignored by the media. If his activities made the op-ed at all, it would have been as a Letter to the Editor and the author would have been classified as a solitary right wing nut case.

And Dan Rather would still be doing SeeBS news and be toasted by liberals everywhere as the man who brought down TWO Republican Presidents.