Anatomy of a Free-Speech Firestorm: How a Professor's 3-Year-Old Essay Sparked a Controversy

The Chronicle of Higher Education ^ | February 10, 2005 | Scott Smallwood

[Fester Chugabrew]

. . . a Lamar University sociologist is charging that some of Mr. Churchill's research is fraudulent.

No lack of fraudulence with liberal academia. Besides, recent studies show that fraudulent research is behind many recent studies.

[Peach]

I see that Free Republic is mentioned in the article.

[Zacs Mom]

For Ms. Rabinowitz, director of the Kirkland Project, the question is whether the incident will make colleges reluctant to invite controversial speakers: "How many people can stomach what we've been through?"

lol .... yeah, heaven forbid someone should actually take a close look at what is being offered up on campuses across this nation.

This reminds me of Reid's outrage over the RNC's compiling and putting forth a report of his record ~ how dare anyone use reality as a tool to shape public opinion?

[backhoe]

 

 Terror Teacher, Take Two- the vile Ward Churchill Saga

[sgtbono2002]

Ronald Everett the black panther criminal who invented Kwanza. Ward Churchill, Susan Rosenberg a convicted aremed robber, these are people who are hired by colleges to teach College courses and be professors? What is wrong with this picture?

[KateatRFM]

It's not a new experience for universities, although it's much more national and international since the Internet -- my hippie sister and her friends gathered to listen to Abby Hoffman speak at the University of New York at Potsdam back in the 60s. When he advocated killing their parents and (after questioning by a student) repeated that he meant it literally, they rose up in a body and ran him off campus.

I can't wait to hear what the same people who whine about academic freedom to slander and libel the dead and the living will say on the day when Pat Buchanan comes to their campus to explain that 9/11 was really caused by lesbians and gays infuriating God.....

[Jim Noble]

Randall Fuller, an assistant professor of English at Drury University, in Springfield, Mo., says faculty members have been following the flap because Mr. Churchill spoke there in March 2004 without any incident. In fact, Mr. Fuller says, Mr. Churchill sparked the "most stimulating and engaged discussion" of the 18 speakers invited to the campus to commemorate the Lewis and Clark expedition. "We knew that he was a provocateur, and that's what we liked about him," he says.

Very telling.

"That's what we liked about him".

Unimportant whether he's a fraud. Unimportant whether his "research" is invented. Unimportant that every word out of his mouth is a lie.

He was a provocateur.

That's what we liked about him.

Remember.

[OldFriend]

By Ms. Rabinowitz' reasoning, she'll be inviting a speaker who wants to bring back lynching?

The time for so called playing by their own rules is fast diminishing.

[mewzilla]

By Ms. Rabinowitz' reasoning, she'll be inviting a speaker who wants to bring back lynching?

Or the Third Reich?

[OldFriend]

Wouldn't be surprised if they did want to discuss the positive aspects of the third reich.

[Zacs Mom]

I missed post this from last week ~
It's amazing ...
this Ward Churchill @-hole really does speak with a


"forked tongue"
Ward Churchill. Masquerading as Indian for years behind his dark glasses and beaded headband.

[conservativecorner]

Compendium of Ward Churchill Information:

For a comprehensive collection of links and information about Ward Churchill, please see PirateBallerina.com.

[conservativecorner]

Like he can actually aim and shoot the weapon. I bet he's not proficient with a B-B Gun let alone a real weapon.

[purpleland]

Self-justified by posing as a bitter Native American, "...Churchill's speaking engagements may dry up now, as other colleges back away from his fiery rhetoric. But he has other things to worry about -- most immediately, his job. Regents in Colorado are pushing for his firing, and the interim chancellor of his campus has announced an investigation into his work to determine whether he "may have overstepped his bounds."

Compare Churchill's (state and federal funded by taxpayers) salary, tenure benefits, social status, etc, to death benefits, medical and retirement programs, pay scale, etc, of any member of our military. Ward Churchill is NOT an intellectual treasure worthy of instructing American youth.

How explicitly proMarxist can phony Indian Churchill's hypocrisy prove himself to be when he cites "profit motive" which is the diabolique of Marx's anti-capitalism. The sweat and toil of America's "profit motive" supports the grandstand on which (bleep x ten) Churchill hawks his hystrionic subversive free HATE speech.

BTW, the way: One week after 9/11, a ten year old neighbor child told me that her (public school)TEACHER told her class that the 9/11 attack was "America's fault". I was so stunned that I just stared at the child and never said a word in response.

American taypayers fund many "educational" entities dedicated to deconstructing America's republic. Read Ben Shapiro's best seller, BRAINWASHED - an expose on subversive ill-liberal academia.

Furthermore, two high school students, during a casual conversation last year, informed me their English teacher told* them what the (misinterpreted)constitutional precept "separation of church and state" meant without EVER providing the class with the full context of the First Amendment.

*instructed

[angkor]

these are people who are hired by colleges to teach College courses and be professors?

It doesn't stop with Churchill:

Bill Ayers was a central figure in the Weather Underground. Ayers is currently a school reform activist and a professor of education at the University of Chicago at Illinois.

Kathleen Cleaver is best known as the former communications secretary of the Black Panther Party. She is a writer and senior lecturer at Emory University Law School.

Bernardine Dohrn was part of the leadership of the Weather Underground and considered the figurehead of the organisation. She spent the 1970s living underground and was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list. Today, Dohrn runs a juvenile justice program at Northwestern University.

Brian Flanagan was a member of the Weather Underground. He is currently a bar-owner in New York City.

Todd Gitlin was president of Students for a Democratic Society in 1963. He has written extensively on the Weather Underground and the 1960s counterculture. He is a professor of culture, journalism and sociology at New York University.

Mark Rudd was famous for his role in the 1968 Columbia protests. As part of the Weather Underground's leadership, he lived underground for several years during the 1970s. He now teaches at a junior college in New Mexico.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/weather-interviewees.shtml

[conservativecorner]

To try and compare the Holocaust with the Israeli/PA conflict is disgusting. The man should be fired for sedition!

[holden]

"I think he's deliberately inflammatory,"

How much time will go by before the day arrives on which a conservative could effectively defend himself saying, "My writing doesn't incite Leftists to riot; I only use hyperbole as a literary device"?

HF

[freespirited]

For Ms. Rabinowitz, director of the Kirkland Project, the question is whether the incident will make colleges reluctant to invite controversial speakers: "How many people can stomach what we've been through?"

Poor Nancy. So many of us have been thinking about the Brinks and 9/11 victims and their families and the students spending 160K for a degree that will be snickered at. We had forgotten that she is the one who has truly suffered the most.

/sarcasm

[Helms]

I distinctly remember Rush L. hitting this the same day of the evening that O'Reilly did the piece on TV. Rush has some 20 million listeners and O'Reilly some 3 million viewers.

Laura Ingram too hammered on this on radio.

Ward Churchill is like his biological weapon blanket given to the Indians as he spreads his mental virus across college campuses.