[jan in Colorado]

What many are missing here is it shouldn't matter if he is Indian, white, black or purple.

Ward Churchill is at CU because he does fit in there.
He is a fair representation of what Boulder has become. It is filled with America-hating,antiwar, far-left liberal fascists.

I hope we find out his name is a fraud just like his Indian heritage, because he disgraces the "Churchill" name.

[davidtalker]

Jan, As a CU grad who has long ago understood what the campus is all about, I'd just correct one thing. The campus has been this way for a long time. Boulder is a timewarp. When I return it's as if nothing has changed. The Vietnam era nonsense has never evolved into anything other than future generation wannabes.

The funny thing is, today I just laugh at these situations. These people are so delusional they provide great entertainment for the rest of us. Ward Churchill is held in high esteem in a tiny dusty corner of academia.

The students will get through it OK. It's a kind of "right of passage." They will look back at this nonsense and smile. These young people can generally take a lot of it in and later spit it out. They will play activist for a few years and then move on to real adulthood. That is, unless THEY choose to teach themselves. Than they remain warped.

Campos is an interesting guy. A Leftist who likes to stir things up. He wrote a book claiming being overweight is no big health problem. That took guts. He asks the good question here. Who hired the guy? However, he doesn't have the guts to move it to the next level. What the heck is an Ethnic Studies Dept. anyhow? It's not an academic discipline. It's a jobs program and a social engineering device for Leftists who can't exist in the real World.