Posted on 03/26/2005 9:26:40 PM PST by freespirited
SAN FRANCISCO - Ward Churchill told a sold-out crowd of ardent supporters here Friday night that he will not cooperate with the University of Colorado investigation into his academic record.
He made that declaration at the tail end of a bitter indictment of interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano's allegation Thursday that Churchill might have misrepresented his ethnic status to buttress the credibility of his work.
Churchill said it is befitting of a "lunatic asylum" that a committee is being charged with the task of determining, among other things, if he is an American Indian, as he has long claimed.
"I am who my grandmother said I was," Churchill said. "I am who my mother said I was. I will be, irrespective of any determination of a committee, with which I will not cooperate. It has nothing to do with nothing."
To a crowd of about 400 who paid $10 apiece but was kept waiting about 45 minutes past the advertised start time, Churchill opened with his traditional remark that he was bringing greetings from "the elders of the Keetoowah Band of Cherokees," the Tahlequah, Okla.-based tribe that granted Churchill an associate membership in 1994.
With special emphasis, Churchill described the Keetoowah as "my people."
As recently as Wednesday, former Keetoowah chief John Ross said Churchill's associate membership was merely honorary in nature and that although Churchill has claimed both 1/16 and 3/16 Cherokee heritage, the Keetoowahs' decision to grant his associate membership was not based on a determination of his Cherokee heritage.
Churchill's talk came little more than 24 hours after DiStefano announced that a seven-week investigation found that allegations of plagiarism and fraud in Churchill's writings were serious enough to be referred to a standing university committee that investigates research misconduct.
That committee also will determine if Churchill's disputed claim to be an American Indian is a violation of academic standards and a misrepresentation used to gain credibility and authority for his work.
The CU investigation was triggered by national outrage over an essay Churchill authored on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, in which he labeled some victims in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," a reference to Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann.
DiStefano's investigation concluded that such language from Churchill, though "repugnant," was protected speech and did not represent grounds for termination.
The review by the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct could take as long as seven months to complete, and if the findings are upheld, they then would be referred to the university's Committee on Privilege and Tenure.
The entire process could take two years or longer, with the CU Board of Regents having the final say on whether Churchill is fired.
In his Friday night speech, Churchill said the disciplinary action contemplated against him, despite DiStefano's assertion to the contrary, was very much about the incendiary content of his political speech.
"They don't charge you with what it is that they're ultimately after you for," he told the mostly leftist audience members, who filled their time waiting for Churchill by reading literature such as the newspaper of the Maoist International Movement.
Never, ever trust a white man who wears a fringed buckskin jacket.
"It has nothing to do with nothing."
You must learn to understand the liberal double-speak or, if you will, the double-negative.
This really means: It has something to do with it.
... and he charges the useful idiots $10 each to hear his continue his lies.
I've been an Indian, for as long as I can remember. Though sometimes, I must admit, I was the Cowboy and my little brother was the Indian. It really depended on who could get to the plastic badge and toy revolver first. Anyway, we need a check.
If you push, I'll open the window.
Afterward, all 70 of us can claim we were in the gents at the time, and heard nothing.
I wonder what the domestic circulation of that rag is.
L
fire the A-hole!!!
" The sheeple are STILL sleeping. UN-F'CKN BELIEVABLE!"
You should see what happens when mumia abu jamal commands an "audience"! (Targets of Opportunity, to be sure...)
You're right. They'll drag this out as long as possible. Waiting and hoping that it will fall from the radar screen of public scrutiny. While it does matter to me, I won't lose any sleep over it, because I have already informed CU on several occasions that my children will have nothing to do with their institution or any associated with them while I live and breath(or at least still have my feeding tube in.) I can only hope that others who read this, will take the time to let CU know that they were morally bankrupt when the hired this anti-american liar, and are morally bankrupt in not at least suspending him while under investigation.
by refusing the investigations, it sounds like scumbag churchill has something to hide (I know, understatement of the year).
C
If a filthy carcass falls and no one hears it, did it happen?
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