Posted on 03/10/2005 2:29:13 PM PST by freespirited
According to KHOW-AM talk radio host Peter Boyles, a very reliable media source has informed him that Ward Churchill's attorney, David Lane, has stated that CU will offer Ward Churchill a buy-out so generous that Churchill will never have to work another day in his life. Numerous other media sources in Colorado, including the daily newspapers, have confirmed that CU is negotiating a buy-out with Churchill. If these reports are accurate, CU President Betsy Hoffman's decision earlier this week to resign was well-timed, because the Churchill buy-out, which may be announced on Monday, would have ignited a firestorm of demands for her resignation.
The Churchill buy-out may be remembered at the single most self-destructive decision ever made by CU administrators. It will be a disaster for the University's fund-raising, and will significantly weaken the University's support in the state legislature. The state legislature is currently working to create a November 2005 ballot referendum to raise Colorado taxes by billions of dollars, primarily to support to higher education. It will be very difficult to convince voters that an institution which has enough money to give Ward Churchill millions of dollars desparately needs to take more money out of the pockets of families trying to balance their own budgets every month.
The tragedy of the buy-out is that, if CU administrators had the nerve, there is an overwhelmingly strong case for firing Churchill based on academic fraud, as I detailed in a previous post.
Churchill's responses to the academic fraud evidence have been entirely unconvincing. On of his tactics is to cite various far-left professors, such as Noam Chomsky, who praise his work. That Churchill is admired, in general, by some extremist professors is hardly a refutation of the specific evidence of Churchill's fraud which has been brought forward by Professors LaVelle and Brown.
Second, Churchill attempts to obfuscate the topic by pointing to irrelevant historical data. For example, as LaVelle has detailed, Churchill lied over and over by claiming that the 19th-century federal General Allotment Act gave property rights only to Indians who could prove a certain quantum of Indian blood. Churchill does not directly attempt to defend this false statement, because it would be impossible; anyone can read the Act, and see that the Act said nothing about blood quantum, but rather left the decision about who would receive Reservation land to the Indian tribes in charge of the various Reservations. So instead, Churchill points to various 20th-century federal Indian laws which did involve a blood quantum.
It seems extremely doubtful that any jury or judge would buy Churchill's implausible defense. If you falsely write "Queen Victoria flew to the moon in a spaceship in 1887", you can't defend the falsehood by pointing out that somebody else did fly to the moon in the subsequent century.
The ultimate responsibility for CU's problems is borne by the elected Board of Regents. Preliminary indications suggest that the Regents, in their search for a new CU President, will not hire a reformer--such as former U.S. Senator Hank Brown, who did an excellent job promoting reform when he served as President of the University of Northern Colorado. Instead, the Regents will look for another apparatchik who will attempt to defend the miserable, ultra-p.c., anti-intellectual-diversity status quo in CU's humanities departments.
lol
I don't mean just this clown - it seems every day brings yet another nonsensical outrage, or the fraud-of-the-day gets rich (think Churchill, multiple Clintons), or the politicians assault us in yet another creative way, or the Muslims act like their usual murdering selves, or Michael Jackson appears on TV etc., etc.
I'm just sick of it all. For once, I want to see somebody like Churchill get fired, egged and mugged or something - then up living on the streets in a cardboard box.
I want justice, dammit! Time for aholes to not get away with it for once!
Another example of how Liberal pigs hide behind the first amendment to spew vitriolic rhetoric and get away with it.
I don't understand why common sense is overlooked because of fear of a lunatic who says he has "academic freedom". He lied about enough things to be rightfully fired.
I really hope that enrollment and funding suffers for their utter stupidity.
It must be nice to be a tenured Marxist moron. You can rail against capitalism and liberal democracy, get paid well, and when you finally stick your foot in your stupid mouth, Leftists at our universities will treat you with even more respect.
Professors are dumb,
but they ain't stoopid! A new
industry will form
to see who can say
the most outrageous remarks
to get hush money . . .
I would take it to trial. With a jury of Colorado taxpayers, you will likely see a repeat of the USFL-NFL Verdict (...we the Jury find fot the Plaintiff...damages awarded in the amount of three dollars!)
Maybe he'll put the money to good use and take some art lessons.
Maybe he will open his own Cherokee Indian hair tampon company.
will all that money then make a 'big Eichmann"?
He's already rich according to the Dems. He's making $90,000 a year.
no telling where churchy might end up.
for example, princeton university hired mike davis, the author of "city of quartz" a book patterned after howard zitt's ('scuse me, zinn's) hate-america books.
not only did davis teach at princeton etc., he got a macarthur "genius" award.
so, stay tuned. anyone that chomsky likes will eventually move up the ladder.
No kidding, get out of Dodge! That's the package he should get. I would NEVER send my kid to CU.
Ward's non existent tribe won't need a funking casino.
"This is a "University" that needs to be closed down, an academic laughingstock, a drain on tax dollars, a waste of space."
When I was there, their physics, biochemistry, and chemical engineering departments were very good.
Our professor for Molecular Genetics would come into class and say, "I got a phone call from Watson (of Watson and Crick) last night, and guess what..."
He was right on the cutting edge, and aflame with enthusiasm for his subject. No politics, either.
But then, that was back in the 70s.
Even then the Arts and Parties departments were awash in detrius. Favorite quote: "Oh, wow, man, you can't do science when you're stoned."
My thoughts exactly as I read the article. If Ward Churchill gets paid off, well, sheesh, what can you say? It is so immensely frustrating when people in power will not do the right thing. And we all suffer for their lack of spine -- and lack of sense, I might add, because paying him off is foolish as well as wrong.
It makes me so angry, and I get even angrier when I realize that my anger means nothing. What's going to happen is going to happen. I'll remember the regents' names, and Churchill's too, of course, but so what? God, I just hope this report is wrong.
Hugh Hewitt said they should keep him on but put him in the Yukon Branch of the University. (something like that. in the backwater, empty classes). It would be better than buying him off. Of all the .... nonsense.
I am listening to a recording of Chief Wannabe speaking. I am breaking thing, he makes me so mad. At one point he actually thanks Osama Bin Laden. I want to terrible things to him with a fork.
who do we need to call to stop this faux Indian from getting a dime? We need to find the people to call, call them, and get everyone we know to call them.
This will not stand.
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