Sounds like we have some talentless wonders who live in glass campus towers are a bit afraid. It is about time these useless "academics" are exposed for the charlatans that they are.
Posted on 02/26/2005 6:27:07 PM PST by John Lenin
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The Denver Post reports the deal is in the very early stages.
A three person panel is scheduled to deliver a report on Churchill's tenure.
Churchill became the center of a national uproar after people started reading one of his essays, comparing some victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to a Nazi official. The chancellor is now reviewing Churchill's writing, speeches, conduct and recordings.
Now, CU's Board of Regents said they're concerned over recent revelations that some of Churchill's artwork may have violated copyright laws.
Meanwhile, a full-page ad taken out by 200 CU faculty members calls for the school to drop inquiry into Churchill's writings.
Gov. Bill Owens and others have called for the firing of Churchill, a tenured professor.
The faculty members paid for the ad to run Monday in The Boulder Daily Camera.
The ad says the review of the professor, expected to complete by the middle of March, should be stopped immediately. The ad says the inquiry is the result of political pressure and not based on "any prior formal complaint of specific professional or academic misconduct on his part."
The 200 faculty members' statement defends Churchill's "right to speak what he believes to be the truth" based on academic freedom rules designed to prevent faculty members from being fired for unpopular views.
In the esssay, written immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Churchill appeared to sympathize with the hijackers. He wrote that some victims were not innocent because of their role in driving U.S. foreign policy.
Under pressure from Owens, the Legislature, and the Board of Regents, the university began an investigation of Churchill.
CU's Arts and Sciences Council passed a resolution Feb. 10 protesting the investigation, and said administrators should know that faculty members are serious about their opposition to what some consider a witch hunt.
Margaret LeCompte, an education professor, said, "It is going to be extremely difficult, if academic freedom is on the block, for us to hire and keep good faculty members.'
LeCompte and the other teachers who signed the ad paid $1,600 to have it published.
"We're all thinking twice about what we're saying," LeCompte said, recalling the climate in the McCarthy era when professors were fired for alleged communist ties.
They are afraid they will be next.
I thought there have been many complaints regarding his prefessional and art works?
Which raises a very good question about the capability of the various bodies who certify schools. Apparantly fakes like Ward Churchill fly below their radar. What else is at University of Colorado somebody ought to take a look at.
Probably so he can go on the lecture circuit and make even more money than Bill Clinton.
"CU May Offer Churchill Early Retirement"
Which means that he may be fired if he doesn't take it. As much as I abhor Churchill and his opinions, I don't think he should be fired for speaking his dumb opinion.
What they SHOULD offer him is a kick in the butt!
Yeah----a fat pension,the lecture circuit,and a big bestseller.
Who says "crime" doesn't pay!
I'm not sure he should be fired for voicing his opinion, but he should definitely be dismissed for lying on his resume and/or plagiarizing paintings.
What a f....g cop out! Those jerks that hired and tenured this a@#**hole should be named and held to account publically. They better not have federal funding or I am really steamed!
These people are yellow as Saffron. Gutless cowards. They know the man needs to be fired they know he has to go , but they dont have the courage to call him in and fire him.
Sounds like we have some talentless wonders who live in glass campus towers are a bit afraid. It is about time these useless "academics" are exposed for the charlatans that they are.
Nobody is concentrating on the question of how Churchill got hired and later tenure. Those people ought to get looked at as well.
His firing will have little to do with free speech or his speaking his dumbass opinion.
He won't be fired for speaking.
He should be fired for a phony resume, copyright infringements, lying to obtain his job and his alleging when hired that he was an Indian.
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