[The Loan Arranger]

"They got a lot of 'splainin' to do"....as Ricky Ricardo would've said.

[Tribune7]

You wouldn't see a column like that in a Philly paper.

[mountainlyons]

KHOW and KOA radio have been on top of what has been going on and have gotten military records and some other documents giving this jerk tenure. I forgot the websites but they are not too hard to find.

[lancer]

They got a lot of 'splainin' to do

Only if someone asks the questions. And judging from this article, there are few "journalists" who intend to expose the corruption, intellectual and otherwise, at CU.

Guess it's up to the bloggers...

[newsgatherer]

bump use on page two.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

This ethnicity thing is interesting. I've more indian blood in me than Churchill ever did (my great great grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee). However, I'm not registered as one, have no intention of registering as one and consider myself as merely an "american."

[freeangel]

The simple answer to the Churchill hiring is easy. The ethics of the people that hired him are the same as Churchills. That is, zero.

[Cicero]

There's nothing unique about the University of Colorado in this regard. As long as you're politically correct, you can commit plagiarism to your heart's content and no one will trouble you.

There are rare exceptions when someone really steps in it, as Churchill did with his Eichman comment. Otherwise, nobody cares.

Another scholar and I wrote reviews pointing out that a professor working in my field had falsified many of his footnotes, claiming that evidence was there which a look at the original sources proved was simply untrue. There were more than a dozen footnotes of this kind.

This had no public effect at all. I believe everyone in the field is aware of the facts, but since this professor is politically correct, everyone simply ignores the facts. Indeed, he was shortly afterward offered a top professorship at CUNY graduate center. He will retire with honors when he is ready to do so, and not before. His case is far from unique; I know of another instance of plagiarism from one of my own early books, for which the author suffered no penalty.

Colorado is no better, and no worse, than dozens of other formerly prestigious institutions of higher learning. Regretably, higher education in our country is sick, and seemingly getting worse every day.

[Brilliant]

The more interesting question is whether its limited to CU, and if not, then what are the other universities going to do about this?

[Phant2000]

If this kind of activity doesn't prove how the liberals/socialists will take over our country, then what will it take to convince the non-believers? Those "teaching" in our educational institutions have long been denying the right of "personal opinion" and "objective thinking" to those of our younger generations. We had better get a grip and do something soon ... before it is too late.

[libstripper]

This is why it's so important for Churchill to be fired. It is likely to set off massive, uncontrollable litigation in which CU's dirty linen will be fully aired.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

STOP WARD CHURCHILL NOW!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1360865/posts

[ken21]

as much as this makes me wanna puke, i think

rush is right: leave churchill there, on display. he's of more use to conservatives teaching at cu.

no doubt the college students will sign up for his classes to laugh at him.

what better outcome can you imagine? churchill tormented daily in his classes by his students.

[John Lenin]

CA ACADEMIC INSANITY

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