Professor's Lawyer Challenges University [Ward Churchill update]

Rockford Register Star ^ | 4/7/2005 | Staff

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

DENVER (AP) -- A lawyer for the professor whose remarks about Sept. 11 victims touched off a firestorm wants officials to clarify how they intend to prove he is an American Indian, asking if they plan to use "the Nazi standard for racial purity."

A University of Colorado faculty committee is investigating whether professor Ward Churchill should be fired over allegations he plagiarized others' work, and that he falsely claimed to be an American Indian to give his work more credibility.

"Do you wish to employ the Nazi standard for racial purity? Do you wish to employ the standard adopted by the United States government for determining Japanese ancestry in order to qualify for internment?" attorney David Lane asked in a letter dated Monday to acting chancellor Philip DiStefano.

The university launched the investigation after a 3 1/2-year-old essay came to light earlier this year in which he compared some Sept. 11 victims to Nazi bureaucrats. A panel headed by DiStefano concluded he could not be fired for his essay, but directed a faculty committee to investigate the plagiarism and ethnicity allegations.

Churchill has denied the plagiarism allegations.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

The fact that this slug was able to secure employment as a university professor says a lot about the university system.

[patton]

"Do you think Facism will ever come to America?"

"Yes, but it will call itself anti-facism."

[traderrob6]

Jeeez what complete nonsense

[aynrandfreak]

The problem for the University is that they can't admit that they only hired him because they thought he was Native American.

[FormerACLUmember]

Gosh I dunno, shyster attorney David Lane. Maybe we should use the American Indian standards. Native Americans absolutely hate Scotch Irish Ward Churchill's guts and have been denouncing him for years as a complete fraud. He pretended to be a Native American on his resumes (copies are on the Internet) to get his job, ousting real Native American.

[LibertyRocks]

Why don't we ask the Native Americans themselves? There are rules set up by the tribes governing who can, and who cannot claim to be a Native American... Best I can tell he is an "honorary member" of a tribe in Oklahoma as explained below... This man claims to speak for Native Americans, and claims to want to be considered one, but IMHO by comparing THEIR ways of determining tribe membership to Naziism he threatens to destroy the very fabric that holds their community together - what a jerk!

From the AIM website:

"The sorry part of this is Ward Churchill has fraudulently represented himself as an Indian, and a member of the American Indian Movement, a situation that has lifted him into the position of a lecturer on Indian activism. He has used the American Indian Movement’s chapter in Denver to attack the leadership of the official American Indian Movement with his misinformation and propaganda campaigns.

Ward Churchill has been masquerading as an Indian for years behind his dark glasses and beaded headband. He waves around an honorary membership card that at one time was issued to anyone by the Keetoowah Tribe of Oklahoma. Former President Bill Clinton and many others received these cards, but these cards do not qualify the holder a member of any tribe. He has deceitfully and treacherously fooled innocent and naïve Indian community members in Denver, Colorado, as well as many other people worldwide. Churchill does not represent, nor does he speak on behalf of the American Indian Movement. "

[snowman1]

Then why can't these pussies at CU get rid of the BASTARD.

[kimmie7]

Here's a question for ya. I really am part native American - how would I go about proving that? Just curious. I'm proud of my Cherokee heritage.

[pointsal]

Boy, there is nothing like academic excellence....(barf).

[alloysteel]

Nothing like picking up an argument and taking it backwards. Nobody is suggesting that the Nationalist Socialist standard of racial purity be applied, never did, and never will. Germans were just a little anal-retentive about that degree of purity, but it has not been much used here in the US since about the time of the Great Emancipation.

And the various tribes of Indians themselves are much more divergent than any definition of a "pure" race. A member of the Dakota nation, for example, is not very much like, say, a Cherokee, or a Ojibway, or a Navajo. The Indians themselves make some very sharp distinctions.

It is just that Ward Churchill is none of these things.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

'sbecause they're backed up by the League of Pussies (the Regents) and the Chief Puss, Governor Owens.

[marvlus]

I remember posting a prediction that he would be fired by the 6th of March. Boy, was I ever wrong! Academics may have knowledge, but they have no common sense or balls!!!

[Lekker 1]

I really am part native American - how would I go about proving that.

I was once told that Native Americans have a corn-kernel-shaped depression in the back of each of their front two teeth. Take a piece of gum, press it into the back of your two fron teeth and look at the impression. I don't know if it is true, but I have heard it.

Are there any medical professionals out there that have ever heard such a thing?

[meandog]

(with apologies to Charlie Pride)

"Ka-WARD-ja was a wooden indian outside the cigar store..."

[jwalburg]

The guy can't even spell the name of his alma mater:

Ward Churchill's web page: Sangaman State

Ward's alma mater, Sangamon State:Ward's alma mater, Sangamon State

[marvlus]

It's my understanding that the Governor of Colorado hasn't any legal ground to work from on this situation.

[Red Boots]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1371130/posts



Try this link from an earlier post. It has the federal guidelines. I'm looking into it for my daughter, who is 1/16 Cherokee, acording to family legend. She's going to use it when applying to college. If they question me, I'll just say, " If it was good enough for Ward, it's good enough for her " !

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Darn, no e-mail address. I'm sure angry e-mailers shut down CU's e-mail servers an hour after the story of this clown hit the news.

[auboy]

David Lane's comments are as absurd as Churchill's. How do these people sleep at night?

[kimmie7]

If that's the truth, I can certainly prove my lineage. My two front teeth are heavily cupped on the lingual side.