Posted on 06/23/2005 9:21:14 PM PDT by CHARLITE
The University of Colorado announced last week that it is expanding its apparently endless inquiry into misconduct by faux Indian Prof. Ward Churchill after a recent series by the Rocky Mountain News demonstrated:
That Churchill has no Indian blood, as he claimed to obtain tenure.
CU acted with far greater dispatch in the case of Prof. Phil Mitchell, canned in March after 20 years when his department chief discovered that he was a conservative and a Christian.
The grounds for firing Mitchell, 1998 Teacher of the Year at CU, were that he quoted black conservative Thomas Sowell in a discussion of affirmative action.
That the sources Churchill cited in an academic paper for his charge that the U.S. Army deliberately spread smallpox among the Mandan Indians in 1837 do not support the charge. Some refute it.
That Churchill plagiarized the work of Canadian Prof. Fay Cohen, and appears to have plagiarized others.
"All the facts laid out in recent days point to one unavoidable conclusion:
Churchill did plagiarize, and he did invent historical events to suit his political agenda," the Rocky Mountain News said in an editorial June 10th.
"If Churchill's shoddy work is not beyond the pale, then the integrity of all research at the university is in doubt."
But the University of Colorado has been about as eager to examine Churchill's wrong-doing as the Volcker Commission has been to investigate what UN Secretary General did or did not do in the Oil for Food scandal.
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