Posted on 02/26/2005 11:08:15 AM PST by AdrianR
University of Colorado officials are considering offering Ward Churchill an early retirement package that could end an increasingly uncomfortable standoff with the controversial professor.
Two people familiar with internal CU discussions said the still-undetermined offer is in the idea stage. The discussions come just a week before a three-person panel is scheduled to deliver a report on Churchill's fitness for tenure.
David Lane, Churchill's attorney, said he has not been contacted about a buyout offer.
But, he said, while his primary focus is on protecting Churchill's constitutional right to speak out, he would be willing to listen to a university proposal.
"If they offer $10 million, I would think about it. If they offer him $10, I wouldn't," Lane said.
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I just wish that when Hunter Thompson tried to shoot himself, Ward Churchill could have been there to try and stop him.
i don't understand this.
the people that hate this country get a lot of money, but the people that work day-to-day, pay their taxes get by.
Even in the DUmmie thread about this jerk, they were turning against him...
Ironically, tho, the same people who scream(ed) "academic freedom" for this twit were calling for the head of Lawrence Summers.
Appeasement is the first course of the liberal mind.
Unless of course they are dealing with a conservative,
in which case it's the end justifies the means.
Watch how fast the professor who regularly smears American businessmen as greedy and unprincipled rushes to take the money and run.
If they offer him 10 million, I'll be more furious than before.
Buyout! They ought to demand he return all the salary he earned under a false resume and dereliction of his responsibility to the students and the university.
Spirit of Bear rejoices in knowledge that Heap Big Chief Running Fraud soon to be without teepee.
I'll tell you why. Because in the short term...the university would be better off ( financially and from a PR perspective..) to settle.
The longer it drags on...the more restless the alumni get. The more publicity they get. The more publicity Chief Wannabe gets. It's a lose, lose for the university to fight it out in court. It's a win, win for them to settle.
I don't like it. And in the long run....because I believe in doing the "Right" thing..and I happen to think the university would be ahead to FIGHT. Maybe not from a financial standpoint...But everything isn't counted in dollars and cents.
Although I'm sure there's a bunch of pointy headed libs running U of Colo. and you can't count on them doing the "Right" thing.
FRegards,
I'm gonna assume that's 'zackly what'll happen, so to speak - by way of a taxpayer payoff.....I'm certain CU's a public school.
I did contact the CU regents and this was essentially my advice. LOL
Unfortunately, he'll be running to one of the two dozen or so universities that will be clamoring for his services.
Maybe Cornell West can get him a job at Princeton.
bttt
"Since it was first reported that Churchill, a CU ethnic studies professor, had demonized some of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the university has faced relentless scrutiny of its hiring practices and faculty qualifications. Churchill has undergone an extensive media review of his scholarship, artwork and genealogy, while everyone from radio talk-show hosts to syndicated newspaper columnists have questioned his integrity, his ancestry and his military career."
This is why UC wants to buy him out and probably will. He's attracted tremendous, justified negative publicity to the entire UC ethnic studies scam. The contrast between the way he's being treated and the way Larry Summers has been treated stinks to high heaven. The juxtaposition of the two cases shows what a complete, rotten, hypocritical intellectual fraud liberal academia is, just as Rathergate and Eastongate exposed the MSM. Indeed, the two affairs are so closely related they ought to be referred to as "Churchill-Summersgate."
To continue its PC ethnic studies scam, and to protect similar scams being run by all the rest of this country's most prestigious academic institutions, UC has to get rid of this mess quickly and quietly. The only way to do that is make the Colorado taxpayers buy Churchill off. A lawsuit would only prolong the affair and disclose more rot and corruption.
ping
FYI most are Republican.
FYI most are Republican.
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