Posted on 03/11/2005 5:16:02 AM PST by ajolympian2004
By Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News March 11, 2005
University of Colorado officials investigating embattled professor Ward Churchill received documents this week purporting to show that he plagiarized another professor's work.
Officials at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia sent CU an internal 1997 report detailing allegations about an article Churchill wrote.
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Prof accused of plagiarism Nova Scotia school sends CU a report on Churchill essay
By Laura Frank, Rocky Mountain News March 11, 2005
University of Colorado officials investigating embattled professor Ward Churchill received documents this week purporting to show that he plagiarized another professor's work.
Officials at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia sent CU an internal 1997 report detailing allegations about an article Churchill wrote.
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"The article . . . is, in the opinion of our legal counsel, plagiarism," Dalhousie spokesman Charles Crosby said in summarizing the report's findings.
Churchill did not return calls to his home or office Thursday seeking comment.
Dalhousie began an investigation after professor Fay G. Cohen complained that Churchill used her research and writing in an essay without her permission and without giving her credit. Although the investigation substantiated her allegations, Cohen didn't pursue the matter because she felt threatened by Churchill, Crosby said.
Crosby said Cohen told Dalhousie officials in 1997 that Churchill had called her in the middle of the night and said, "I'll get you for this."
Cohen still declines to talk publicly about her experience with Churchill, but she agreed the Dalhousie report could be shared with CU officials, Crosby said, because "whatever concerns she may have about her safety are outweighed by the importance she attaches to this information getting out there."
Crosby declined a request for a copy of the report but said it does not contain information about the alleged threat from Churchill.
It is not clear if CU officials are aware of the alleged threat. A CU spokeswoman said officials there would not comment on any matter related to an ongoing review of Churchill's work.
A three-person panel is reviewing that to determine if he meets the standards of professional integrity set by CU.
The CU Board of Regents ordered the review after the public outcry over an essay Churchill wrote comparing victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to notorious Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann. Since then, Churchill has come under fire for some of his other writings and speeches, his scholarship, his claim of American Indian ancestry, and even his artwork.
The review panel, led by Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano, originally was expected to issue its report this week but said it likely won't be released before Monday and perhaps later.
In 1991, Churchill edited a book of essays published in Copenhagen, Denmark, which included a piece by Cohen on Indian treaty fishing rights in the Northwest and Wisconsin. When publishers wanted to reprint the essay in the United States, Cohen declined to allow her essay to appear, Crosby said.
So, Churchill penned an essay on the same topic under the name of the Institute for Natural Progress, a research organization he founded with Winona LaDuke. In the contributors section of the book, Churchill said he took the lead role in preparing the essay.
Why Am I not Suprised?
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
You can bet it wasn't his first time.
I just got a vision of the movie "Young Tom Sawyer" with Victor Jory playing Injun Joe.
As reported on KHOW and KOA this morning it appears that the monetary portion of a buyout has been agreed to unfortunately.
Gregory Hollenback, producer of the Peter Boyles show on KHOW here in Denver has coined the phrase, "Separation of Churchill and State" to described the impending buyout.
Ah, the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Ward Churchill published a book with Winona LaDuke, who ran with Ralph Nader. Now, can the connection be made with Kevin Bacon?
CU is a joke. If I had a resume from CU on my desk I would throw it out. That point needs to be made as long as Churchill is still there.
If this story pans out, CU should be able to can this jerk WITHOUT the mega-bucks contract buy-out. Tenure doesn't cover plagarism....
Is no one in Colorado capable of getting before a judge and putting a stop to a payout?
This is just par for the course for this looser. He lied about everything. He lied to his current employer about his race, using minority status, he lied about 9-11, he lies in all his speaking engagements, he plagerized his art, now he plagerizes his writing...
BUT, all the lies paid off! He is going to be bought out of his contract by people who will NEVER call him on those lies.
being liberal means you never have to pay the consequences for your lies. graft, and bribery are acceptable for liberals. Clinton got away with it. Churchill will profit by it as well. He may even get speaking engagements for all his troubles.
Spew treasonous rhetoric, Plagiarize works, be found out as a fraud on level after level after level and be paid 3 to 5 million dollars for it.
America, What a country!
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CU was a joke long before Churchill arrived. It is now a glorified community college.
No reason to be upset. Italy does it all the time.
Perhaps there is a "check point" in Ward's future? ;)
He has nothing ON them except that he knows how the liberal college game is rigged and that he will get a buyout because of the usual threats of left, such as racism, discrimination, etc.
Nice! Advertise this bump
If you get people to apply some pressure, then it can work.
It looks like you're going to have to change your secondary tag line now that ABC has purged any mention of Fox News on Boston Legal.
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