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School can't locate Churchill's thesis: UI officials not sure master's paper was required
Rocky Mountain News ^ | 2/23/05 | Berny Morson

Posted on 02/23/2005 8:48:38 AM PST by freespirited

University of Illinois officials said Tuesday they can't locate Ward Churchill's master's thesis and aren't sure if he was required to write one.

The embattled University of Colorado ethnic-studies professor claims undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Illinois' Springfield campus, which was known as Sangamon State University until 1995. Springfield is in Sangamon County.

University of Illinois at Springfield spokeswoman Cheryl Peck confirmed that Churchill received a bachelor's degree in 1974 and a master's degree in 1975. But no thesis is on file, she said.

"We can't say for sure he didn't write one," Peck said. It is not clear if a thesis was a requirement at the time Churchill received the degree in communications, she said.

CU spokeswoman Pauline Hale said she did not know if faculty members inquired about Churchill's thesis in 1991 before giving him tenure.

Documents released last week by CU indicate some faculty members had reservations about granting tenure to a professor who lacked a doctorate.

The documents are silent on a master's thesis.

On Tuesday, Illinois faculty members described Sangamon State - in the 1970s, when Churchill attended - as focused on innovative teaching methods, including an emphasis on social issues of the day.

The campus did not have academic departments. Instead, faculty members were rostered under interdisciplinary groupings, including Churchill's major, communications in a technological society.

Students could major in traditional subjects, such as history or English, but they could also design their own majors in consultation with the faculty.

Larry Golden, a political scientist and one of the original professors when Sangamon opened in 1970, said the school was not as freewheeling as it sounds.

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

The campus served only juniors, seniors and master's-degree students. They would have taken the standard courses at a two-year college before coming to Sangamon.

The program included an "applied-studies term," in which students earned credit by working off campus. Projects ranged from working with a state legislator to community organizing.

The students were required to take part in a seminar and write journals or term papers as part of the program, Golden said.

"You couldn't just go to an anti-war rally in Washington and say, 'That's my experience,' " Golden said.


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KEYWORDS: academia; churchill; fakeindian; hateamericafilth; hatingamerica; leftistwackos; mastersthesis; sangamonstate; ucolorado; wardchurchill; wazzathesis
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To: freespirited
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.

61 posted on 02/23/2005 9:29:58 AM PST by F16Fighter
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To: freespirited

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.


62 posted on 02/23/2005 9:30:41 AM PST by ThinkPlease (Fortune Favors the Bold!)
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To: justshutupandtakeit

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


63 posted on 02/23/2005 9:31:41 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert.)
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To: freespirited
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.

64 posted on 02/23/2005 9:32:45 AM PST by Phsstpok ("When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring.")
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To: tumblindice
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

65 posted on 02/23/2005 9:33:47 AM PST by freespirited
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To: newzjunkey
"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.

66 posted on 02/23/2005 9:34:04 AM PST by radiohead (revote in washington state)
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To: freespirited

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).


67 posted on 02/23/2005 9:35:54 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: Alberta's Child

Lol


68 posted on 02/23/2005 9:36:26 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (Public Enemy #1, the RATmedia.)
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To: TomGuy

"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


69 posted on 02/23/2005 9:37:37 AM PST by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: tumblindice
Oh yeah. The only BUSH this turd got into belonged to some skanky mamasan in a whore bar in Saigon.

REMF!
70 posted on 02/23/2005 9:38:47 AM PST by HMFIC (Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
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To: Real Cynic No More
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.
71 posted on 02/23/2005 9:39:02 AM PST by vrwinger (Tagline? I don't need no stinkin' TAGLINE!)
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To: Muleteam1
>>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.

72 posted on 02/23/2005 9:39:06 AM PST by NathanR (Mexico: So far from God; So close to the USA.)
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To: libstripper

Bravo!
well said!


73 posted on 02/23/2005 9:41:45 AM PST by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: papadoc1945

I AM INVINCIBLE!


74 posted on 02/23/2005 9:42:10 AM PST by Rate_Determining_Step (US Military - Draining the Swamp of Terrorism since 2001!)
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To: K4Harty

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


75 posted on 02/23/2005 9:42:58 AM PST by Ruth A.
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To: freespirited

thanks, will do.


76 posted on 02/23/2005 9:45:15 AM PST by tumblindice (Our Founding Fathers: all conservative gun owners)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
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.)

77 posted on 02/23/2005 9:48:04 AM PST by Bob
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To: freespirited

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.


78 posted on 02/23/2005 9:48:43 AM PST by thombo
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To: libstripper
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!

79 posted on 02/23/2005 9:49:09 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: riri
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.

80 posted on 02/23/2005 9:50:26 AM PST by N. Theknow
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