[Cicero]

"Further, it has always been university policy that a person's race or ethnicity is self-proving."

They'd better be careful, or every student who applies for admission is going to check the box marked "Native American" or "African American." Then how will they know whom to give the full scholarships to?

[Polybius]

"I came out as clean as a hound's tooth," he said.

Which is why we took the dog to the vet last month to get its teeth cleaned.

[Libloather]

...lodging his complaint with Evelyn Hu-De-Hart, then director for CU's Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America.

CU has an entire center dedicated to this stuff - and THEY can't figure it out? Time to dump this doofus before things really get ugly...

[L.N. Smithee]

In a letter to Standing Elk, [CU Boulder Chancellor James Corbridge] said the university had reviewed Churchill's claims to be an American Indian but could not make that an issue in his employment.

"The university has taken your concerns very seriously," wrote Corbridge. "However, given the fact that equal opportunity is the law of the land and that positions in the public sector are to be awarded to all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, and based only on their ability to do the job, the university does not believe that any attempt to remove Mr. Churchill because of his ethnicity or race would be appropriate.

"Even if Mr. Churchill is not an American Indian, as he claims, Title VII protects Caucasians as well as persons of color. Further, it has always been university policy that a person's race or ethnicity is self-proving."

I'm almost speechless. If someone swung an aluminum bat across the Corbridge's head, I don't think he would feel it.