Posted on 02/28/2005 5:31:26 AM PST by Glacier Honey
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -A full-page ad taken out by 200 University of Colorado faculty members calls for the school to drop inquiry into the writings of professor Ward Churchill.
Gov. Bill Owens and others have called for the firing of Churchill, a tenured professor, because of his comparison of Sept. 11 victims to Nazis.
The faculty members paid for the ad to run Monday in The Boulder Daily Camera.
It says the review of the professor, expected to complete by the middle of March, should be stopped immediately. The ad says the inquiry is the result of political pressure and not based on "any prior formal complaint of specific professional or academic misconduct on his part."
The 200 faculty members' statement defends Churchill's "right to speak what he believes to be the truth" based on academic freedom rules designed to prevent faculty members from being fired for unpopular views.
In the essay, written immediately after the Sept. attacks, Churchill appeared to sympathize with the hijackers. He wrote that some victims were not innocent because of their role in driving U.S. foreign policy.
Under pressure from Owens, the Legislature, and the Board of Regents, the university began an investigation of Churchill.
CU's Arts & Sciences Council passed a resolution Feb. 10 protesting the investigation, and said administrators should know that faculty members are serious about their opposition to what some consider a witch hunt.
Margaret LeCompte, an education professor, said, "It is going to be extremely difficult, if academic freedom is on the block, for us to hire and keep good faculty members.'
LeCompte and the other teachers who signed the ad paid $1,600 to have it published.
"We're all thinking twice about what we're saying," LeCompte said, recalling the climate in the McCarthy era when professors were fired for alleged communist ties.
If they would even think once about what they were saying they might not put their feet in their mouths so often.
So it's OK to lie on your resume, not only about your race, but about your education credentials, and you shouldn't be fired? Stupid brain-dead liberal morons.
CU is FU'd. Potential CU parents should take note!
Lefties circle the wagons ALL the time.
Stoopid Libs, they're so predictable.
A good start.
CU: a university that makes lawyers look good.
So what do we have here? 200 "teachers" (and I use that term VERY loosely) who support:
1. Someone masquerading as a Native American
2. Someone masquerading as an artist
3. Someone masquerading as a veteran
4. Someone masquerading as a PhD whose master's degree is in doubt.
5. Someone masquerading as a legitimate writer
Parents, don't let your children go U of C!
Really.
I just don't understand these nutjobs at all. If someone hates the USA so much that they support these ideas, they should leave.
I support Churchill's right to say whatever he wants, but his obvious radicalism has NO place in a taxpayer supported university. You would think that "professional" educators would realize that - instead, they actively encourage such. Sheesh!
Two things surprise me about this:
1.Churchill doesn't like living under a microscope? Could'a fooled me! He's not hiding from all the publicity!
2: The CU faculty members shelled out their own money for the ad. Couldn't find a rich Lefty to pay for them?
Churchill should not only be investigated, he sholud be arrested and tried for sedition!
...and this is a bad thing?
I'm going to apply at CU for a position. I want to teach brain surgery. I have 5 Ph D's. I'm Native-African-Hispanic American. I'm the leading expert on brain surgery- really I am. America sucks. When can I start ?
Unbelievable! I wonder what the rest of them have to hide?
I guess if you fire one for fraud and dishonesty, you'd have to fire them all.
As Forest Gump would say..stupid is as stupid does...
Shine the light on cockroaches and watch them scurry...
This should be a warning to faculty across the nation to do the scholarly equivalent of "physician, heal thyself".
Well Said. This issue will have a life of it's own beyond Churchill. CU / Boulder has been struck by a lightning bolt. They just haven't figured it out yet. Time for major administrative changes - someone from outside academia
>>O'Reilly is highlighting Ward's copyright violations tonight.<<
Much as it gags me to watch O'Reilly, I guess I'll have to for this. Here's a link to some more of Ward's (or SOMEONE'S) work on ebay:
http://search.ebay.com/ward-churchill_W0QQsofocusZbsQQsbrftogZ1QQfromZR10QQsacatZ-1QQcatrefZC6QQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQsadisZ200QQfposZ22407QQsellerZ1QQsassZamerican_design_ltdQQfsopZ1QQfsooZ1QQcoactionZcompareQQcopagenumZ1QQcoentrypageZsearch
Any of these look familiar to anyone?
No need to reinvent the wheel...Here is a long (yikes, 620+ thread)as FReepers did some great work hunting down the frauds. It's a great, if long read.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350713/posts
Sounds like a plan to me!
I have read comments through 119, and no one has answered the often asked question---HOW MANY professors are there at CU?
Inquiring minds want to know.
vaudine
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