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"Defend yourself." That's the lesson Harvey Mansfield drew for Larry Summers the week before Harvard's president was forced to resign. Mr. Mansfield, a 73-year-old government professor and conservative elder statesman of the university, went on to suggest that Mr. Summers's capitulation to those he offended (when he said women might be biologically less inclined to succeed in the hard sciences) is not simply a craven kowtow to political correctness, but proof, also, of a character flaw. Indeed, Mr. Mansfield continued with a mischievous smile, "He has apologized so much that he looks unmanly." Perhaps this seems like a quaint insult,...

In another sign of the continuing erosion of academic standards nationwide, an anarchist academic who continually lobs rhetorical Molotov cocktails at the Christian religion, capitalism, and the Bush administration, has just been promoted to Chair of Brooklyn College's Sociology Department. Associate Professor Timothy Shortell, who graduated from Washington State University with a BS in Psychology and from Boston College with a Ph.D. in Social Psychology and has only a handful of published articles, fits in well with the Commies at CUNY because of his radical leftist politics. On his website, the moonbat's musings are directly in line with the "antiwar"...

The packed room crackled with anticipation, and the man with a career-long penchant for drama and confrontation must have relished this opportunity. The cadence of a ceremonial drumbeat and American Indian chanting heralded his arrival. The introduction given him was fiery, stoking anger for the opposition, real and imagined. And then, cameras flashing, Ward Churchill stepped to the podium, words of defiance ready on his lips, his black-leather-clad security entourage shoulder-to-shoulder on the stage behind him. "Hello, my relatives," Churchill greeted the crowd, using his usual speech opener. It reflects the spirit of Mitakuye Oyasin, a Lakota Indian phrase meaning...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ward Churchill told a sold-out crowd of ardent supporters here Friday night that he will not cooperate with the University of Colorado investigation into his academic record. He made that declaration at the tail end of a bitter indictment of interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano's allegation Thursday that Churchill might have misrepresented his ethnic status to buttress the credibility of his work. Churchill said it is befitting of a "lunatic asylum" that a committee is being charged with the task of determining, among other things, if he is an American Indian, as he has long claimed. "I am...

Robert Jensen is an associate professor of journalism at the University of Texas, a radical who opposes the war in Iraq, American military reprisal for 9/11, even minimal precautions to protect U.S. borders, any semblance of capitalism, and any restrictions on race-based preferences in hiring or education. He regards the war of Islamic radicals against the West in general and America in particular as a justified war against imperialism. In a recent article on Web publication Alternet, Jensen dismissed U.S. efforts to bring democracy to Iraq and claimed, all evidence to the contrary, that America’s real intention is hegemony over...

At this rate, it'll have to be a retroactive decision. By the time CU fires Ward Churchill, Colorado's infamous professor will have retired with a dozen additional tomes on American imperialism under his belt. "My Life in Nazi America: How to live on a $95K and still be oppressed." That's if CU ever fires him. Which seems highly unlikely. But wherever you fall on this issue, you have to hand it to the university. Who knew academics were this adept at politics? They must be churning out media consultants by the hundreds. For a lesson, students needed only to watch...

  The politically correct faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard passed a surprise no-confidence vote against Larry Summers last night:   Summers’ January remarks — off-the-record, he believed — prompted angry criticism from many faculty, students and alumni; others, however, defended him, saying Summers was simply engaging in a legitimate academic debate.The criticism quickly expanded into a broader attacks on the president’s allegedly blunt management style and his vision for the university, including major projects to expand Harvard’s campus across the Charles River in Boston, and his ideas about what direction scientific research should take.J. Lorand Matory, the anthropology...

ON Apr 14th, the left plans to have students walk out of class and go rally on campus. I believe that they will rally outside of a military recruiter's office and do a die-in.

The antiwar group, the socialists, the Greens, and the multicultural coliation want to kick ROTC and military recruiters off of the UW campus and also divest in any company doing business with Israel. They eventually want to extend this to companies doing business with the US military as well.

A report from a three-person committee investigating the scholarship of University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill is not expected as scheduled today and could be pushed back as much as two weeks, university sources said Sunday night. The delay raises the possibility of restarting negotiations to buy out Churchill's contract, this time using private rather than university funds, say sources close to the university. "There is the exploration of a private donor - if we settle at all - so there wouldn't be any tax dollars involved at all," said one source close to negotiations. Churchill's attorney, David Lane, said...

Dear Tenured University of Colorado Faculty Member: Are you tired of lecturing to kids more interested in cellphones than scholarship? Did the last round of state budget cuts leave you with classes the size of a Sudanese refugee camp? Worry no more. As your board of regents contemplates paying your obnoxious colleague Ward Churchill hundreds of thousands of dollars to leave his CU job, Roasted Chickens Press announces its opening. For a mere 15 percent of your settlement, the insult-happy crew at Roasted Chickens will create and publish works bearing your name that are guaranteed to offend as surely as...

ONE OF WARD CHURCHILL'S EX-WIVES SPEAKS  By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 13, 2005 06:12 PM The never-ending Ward Churchill saga continues. Pirate Ballerina has a four-page rant reportedly from one of his ex-wives, "Dr. M. Anne Jaimes" of San Francisco. She essentially accuses him of stealing her work and says he is guilty of "being Indian careerism." (Links are to PDF pages.) It's a wacky enough diatribe that it rings true. Meanwhile, the highly-publicized buyout talks between CU and Churchill have been halted: DENVER -- Settlement talks between the University of Colorado and the professor who compared some Sept....

Settlement negotiations between the University of Colorado and professor Ward Churchill stalled Friday because of renewed opposition by groups that want to see him fired even if it takes a court fight to make him go away. "The ball is in CU's court," said Churchill attorney David Lane, who confirmed negotiations have hit a wall. Late Thursday, a settlement was all but done after lawyers for Churchill and the university agreed on financial terms. But when revelations arose Friday about a plagiarism complaint against Churchill, regents balked. Churchill critics, including former state Senate President John Andrews, and private citizens across...

Allegations that University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill plagiarized and threatened a professor in Canada scuttled negotiations Friday for a financial settlement that would have ended Churchill's employment at CU. Churchill and the university were close to an agreement that would have required the professor to give up his tenured position in exchange for a substantial payment, but several sources said a report in Friday's Rocky Mountain News disrupted those talks. The News has also learned that a prominent American Indian artist told law enforcement authorities in New Mexico that Churchill threatened violence against him. The Friday story detailed accusations...

  CLAREMONT INSTITUTE For the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy Western States Office Denver ========================================================= NO LICENSE TO LIE Standards for Impartial Judgment In the Churchill Tenure Investigation At CU-BoulderA Legal Review Ahead of the Regents' Report By Jessica Peck Corry and Robert J. Corry, Jr. March 4, 2005 Is there valid cause for the University of Colorado to terminate Ward Churchill, its tenured professor of ethnic studies?Would such an action withstand legal scrutiny in court?Is the university's current investigation of the Churchill matter, leading up to a March 7 report to the Board of Regents by a committee...

Embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill has reached an agreement with the school on the dollar terms of a buyout proposal - now both sides have to decide whether they can accept the implications of making a deal, according to sources familiar with the talks. Three people close to the negotiations between lawyers for Churchill and CU said the sides had agreed to a dollar figure "much less" than $1 million and, perhaps, less than $500,000. But in addition to the money, Churchill wants to make sure his reputation isn't impugned as he leaves CU and that the university...

The University of Colorado's review of Ward Churchill's scholarship has been delayed, perhaps until Monday, partly to allow lawyers time to craft a buyout offer, according to a person close to the process. The original March 3 deadline for the Churchill review has been pushed back twice now as a three-member committee of CU administrators wrestles with his writings, including an essay comparing some 9/11 victims to Nazi Adolf Eichmann. Tuesday, Churchill's attorney, David Lane, said he is "not at liberty" to discuss any talks he might have had with the university on a buyout proposal. He said again, however,...

As you probably know, all-purpose fraud Ward Churchill brought his touring one-man carnival to University of Wisconsin-Whitewater on Tuesday, to the delight of his hebephrenic admirers. Hired by the university to bleat about the plight of allegedly oppressed Indians, he yapped instead about himself and his depraved opinion that the mass-murdering terrorists of 9/11 were the good guys. Drunk on the attention his outrageous views have attracted, Churchill continued to regurgitate venom on the country he so undeservingly calls his home, not backing an inch away from his characterization of the murder of 3000 American civilians as a justified act.Nor...

Elissa Guralnick is a tenured English professor at the University of Colorado. She holds two advanced degrees from Yale and has served the university honorably for nearly 32 years. But if she doesn't sign a loyalty oath by 5 p.m. today, she says, the university promises to fire her. Never mind that she signed it three decades ago. Never mind that she's not required to sign again. This is the utter madness of the Ward Churchill hullabaloo. Churchill, the CU professor who likens 9/11 twin-tower victims to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, signed a loyalty oath when he was hired,...

Nearly 200 University of Colorado faculty members have bought a full-page newspaper ad demanding that school officials halt their investigation of Ward Churchill's work. The ad is scheduled to run in Monday's Daily Camera. It calls for an end to the 30-day review of the American Indian studies professor that school officials expect to complete by mid-March. The investigation was a response to political pressure and not based on "any prior formal complaint of specific professional or academic misconduct on his part," it said. The statement defends Churchill's "right to speak what he believes to be the truth" based on...