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Churchill Settlement Stalled
9News KUSA ^ | 3/11/05 | Paula Woodward

Posted on 03/11/2005 5:19:09 PM PST by Fizzie

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To: Dad yer funny

Apparently, CU hasn't heard of the art crap. They don't know about the Internet.


41 posted on 03/11/2005 7:00:31 PM PST by jackbill
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To: CaptRon

great line....

you're right, old Ward is a capitalist at heart in his settlement demands.....taking money that could be best used for teaching other students and demanding it for himself, even though he won't be working for it as a professor anymore.


42 posted on 03/11/2005 7:04:07 PM PST by SteveAustin
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To: nopardons

Actually, more like a mummy --- many layers, each more rotted and decrepit than the next.


43 posted on 03/11/2005 7:16:41 PM PST by stands2reason (Mark Steyn on GWB: "This is a president who wants to leave his mark on more than a cocktail dress.")
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To: Fizzie
A certain Dr. Denice Denton attacked Summers, but also insisted that his peccadillo might be profitably exploited as a “teachable moment.” But it turns out that Denton, the newly appointed chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, had had her own “teachable moment” — though one that was as quickly forgotten by the media as Summers’s was lasting. Again, in the bizarre world of academia, the chance tearing of a scab reveals quite interesting things underneath. Even before Chancellor Denton arrived at her new $275,000 job, she had negotiated a special university position as well for her girlfriend, Gretchen Kalonji, described as her partner of seven years, for the princely annual sum of $192,000 — a billet that was specially created, unadvertised, and closed to all other job applicants. This novel variant of spousal accommodation was precisely the sort of old-boy networking in public hiring that transparent affirmative-action protocols were supposedly designed to stop. In contemporary university parlance: Was there not a worthy Latina or African-American woman who could have at least been interviewed for the job?

The Denton-Kalonji household will have a combined income of at least $467,000 — plus up to another $50,000 granted to Kalonji for the expenses incurred in her “transition” in moving to the area. This supplement comes on top of a previous $68,750 granted to Chancellor Denton to move to the rent-free, service-provided University President’s House.

Giving a couple already making almost a half-million dollars a year nearly $120,000 to move to California prompted outrage: not from the tenured feminists on the Santa Cruz campus, but from the university’s blue-collar employees, secretaries, and maintenance staff. At a time of record state budget deficits, workers had not received a raise in three years. Meanwhile student fees had recently increased by 10 percent and the Santa Cruz campus had just gone through $14 million in state budget cuts the prior year.
Among the elite of the nation’s professoriate, class considerations always bow to gender sensitivity.

What are we to make of all these recent university teachable moments? The usual exegeses suffice: The contemporary campus has devolved into an Orwellian world in which the ends usually justify the means. Diversity really means no diversity of ideas. Unfettered expression is a code word for groupspeak of the Left. Academic freedom and tenure ensure timidity and monotony of thought. The champions of the oppressed and discriminated are, in fact, the affluent and privileged, whose antics are excused only by the irrelevancy of academic culture and properly deplored solely through the accidental discovery of a forgotten rant or taped remark.

Underneath all this is the disturbing fact that progressive campuses are charging their students tuition whose annual increases exceed the rate of inflation, while vocal professors have plenty of idle time on their hands and live lives that most Americans — or their own college staff members — can only dream of.

‘Teachable Moments’ But who will teach the teachers? by Victor Davis Hanson
44 posted on 03/11/2005 7:25:41 PM PST by John Lenin (A little anarchy and it's curtains)
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To: John Lenin

Whoa! Unbelievable!
Of course we all know there are tons of Ward Churchills being taxpayer subsidized via academia. The light may start to be shining on all of them.


45 posted on 03/11/2005 7:36:46 PM PST by Fizzie
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To: Fizzie
It's outrageous and it has to stop !
46 posted on 03/11/2005 7:40:43 PM PST by John Lenin (A little anarchy and it's curtains)
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To: jackbill
I believe he can be fired for what he has said, after all, only the government can violate freedom of speech rights. The private sector can do whatever it wants. I know if I started bad mouthing my employer or their product, they would fire me post haste.
47 posted on 03/11/2005 7:48:52 PM PST by Boiling point (If God had not meant for man to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat!)
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To: dirtboy

This crap happens all the time. Wasn't it Washington U that paid the fired football coach 4 mill because he said they never told him he couldn't gamble on college sports.


48 posted on 03/11/2005 7:51:10 PM PST by bigsigh
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To: All

Stop Ward Churchill Now!
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360865/posts)


49 posted on 03/11/2005 8:31:22 PM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99 (Watch out for bears, to them you are spaghetti dinner)
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To: stands2reason

Yours is far better description;I bow to the superiority of your post.


50 posted on 03/11/2005 8:36:41 PM PST by nopardons
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To: John Lenin

HOLY COW !


51 posted on 03/11/2005 8:38:35 PM PST by nopardons
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To: cajungirl

"You sure are painting an entire college with a broad brush. You must know that what you say is a gross exaggeration of the situation...There are decent good people at CU."

GOOD AND QUIET!


52 posted on 03/12/2005 9:14:12 AM PST by purpleland (The price of freedom is vigilance.)
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