Ward Churchill is the phoniest of phonies and the fact that he is a tenured professor makes me laugh out loud.
I have heard that the computer powering the Voyager Spacecraft is equivalent to a Commodore 64.
I had a calculator in 1972; it did regular arithmetic and squares, square roots and percents, and it cost $600.00. Ten years later I had a calculator that could do many more things than I could recognize in eight different number systems, and it cost $30.00.
But the first one I had was one of three in my night-school chemistry class. The professor said they were rich kids' toys and would never catch on.
Oh, and by the way, we had plenty of idiot teachers in the early 1970s and we all lived through it. The trick is to be able to separate the wheat from the chaff and laugh at the chaff.