Posted on 03/15/2005 1:03:34 PM PST by ajolympian2004
Backed into a corner
Scholars reveal a lot about themselves by their reaction to evidence that they appropriated the work of others without proper attribution.
• The late historian Stephen Ambrose, when accused of purloining material for his book on B-24 crews in World War II: "I made a mistake for which I am sorry."
• Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe, when told passages in his God Save this Honorable Court were uncannily similar to those in a book published 11 years earlier: "I personally take full responsibility."
• The director emeritus of the Boston Science Museum, Henry Bradford Washburn Jr., when informed that his book The Dishonorable Dr. Cook bore a remarkable likeness to another work published just five years earlier: "You've got to remember you're dealing with a 91-year-old guy here."
• The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, when asked by a Boston Globe reporter whether she'd committed plagiarism by failing to use quotation marks in passages nearly identical to those in another book: "Absolutely not."
• Ward Churchill, after the revelation that Dalhousie University in Canada had concluded that he committed plagiarism: "First, it wasn't my piece; second, it wasn't my book; third, it doesn't say I wrote it but helped assemble it."
In order of appearance, we have the following: two repentant sinners, a curmudgeon, a liar and a man trying to resurrect a lucrative job buyout.
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Vincent Carroll, editor of the editorial pages, writes On Point Tuesday through Friday. Reach him at carrollv@RockyMountainNews.com
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Never pay him off. Let CU hire good lawyers who know their stuff and embarrass Churchill with his lies and cons in the newspapers each day
It's become all too common a practice to succumb to extortion and pay someone off because it's cheaper in the long run. BS, it's time to make a stand, not one penny to this POS
This logic of paying off Ward just to make sure he's gotten rid of is rubbish. It's like saying we should plea-bargain murder cases down to jay-walking "just to make sure" the perp doesn't walk in a trial.
Kick his ass, and send him out the door with a bloody nose and hounds at his heels.
If he was working at any kind of blue-collar job (non-union of course), he'd be lucky to escape.
Good Lord!! Can't we fire anyone on this country anymore?
What a bunch of pathetic chipmunks!!!
I say they should continue to employ him. However, inform him that his office is now located in Baghdad [outside the green zone! :].
i agree with rush:
just leave churchill at cu-boulder.
he's a monument to liberalism run amok.
some students will laugh at him, and well they should. others will learn that he's a fraud.
Fine with me - settle with the bastard - and then anyone and everyone who has a valid cause of action against Fraudy McIndian should immediately file suit against him (plagiarism, copyright infringement, fraud) and he can watch that settlement dwindle to nothing in a matter of months in lawyers' fees).
Churchill's comments in that last bit sound a lot like John
F-ing Kerry... Maybe they have the same excuse, er, speech-writer.
FYI: There is serious discussion here in Colorado among the powers that be to form a 'Dept. of Conservative Studies' at CU. Now that would be a model for schools across the nation to follow IMHO.
wow!
yo' be kidding.
a department of conservative studies?
why not invite rush from the excellence in broadcasting over for a guest lecture on the campi?
and some of his distinguished associates:
hedgecock. williams. sullivan. praeger. dr. laura.
CU needs a football coach...
I'm taking bets here..
Just for talkin purposes.. Lets say Ward Curchill finally gets "Let Go" by CU...
I'm betting that UC Berkley picks him up..
Or IU Bloomington..
There are dozens of lefty whackos running America's colleges and universities who want to spit Ward Churchill back in conservative America's face.
If Churchill gets fired for cause that includes academic fraud he will not ever be hired by any reputable college or university anywhere in America. Plagairism and stealing another's artwork crosses the line even for those arguing freedom of speech and/or academic freedom. Ward Churchill doesn't meet any known minumum standard for becoming a tenured professor. No one will want this albatross, IMHO.
you will remember that all of this churchill do-do
comes one year after david horowitz was in denver convincing the state of colorado legislature that hiring practices at the 3 state universities were unfair.
some have boulder faculty pegged at 65:1 left and liberal:conservative.
he convinced the legislators to pass a bill for owens to sign requiring fairness in hiring faculty.
but then the universities were threatened, and they ran down to denver and yelled, oh no! don't do that. we'll open up our hiring to conservatives.
yeah right.
and now they've got churchill on their hands.
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