Posted on 08/17/2005 4:29:30 PM PDT by MangoCrazy
To sum up the scandal at Indy Law-Indianapolis for Frontpage readers who haven't followed it until now:
This spring Professor William Bradford received a poor vote from the law faculty at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis both on a straw vote for his eventual tenure, and even on a vote simply to retain him as an untenured associate professor for the next three years. This occurred despite the fact that he has an outstanding teaching record (including a teaching award from the law students), an excellent record of service, and a stunning record of publication, including a book, a forthcoming book, and 21 articles in law reviews or in books-enough ordinarily to assure someone at Indy-Law not merely of tenure but of a full professorship. Indeed, one of his colleagues with a similar record of publication, a person who came to IU-Indy School of Law in the same semester as Bradford, has just received promotion not merely to tenure but to full professor. Bradford believes that he was denied tenure because he refused to sign a petition circulated in the law school this spring which supported Ward Churchill, the Professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado who described the victims of 9/11 as "little Eichmanns" deserving what they got. The petition was circulated by Florence Roisman, who is a full professor holding a prestigious Chair in Law at the school. Bradford's position was that as far as he was concerned, someone who couldn't distinguish between commercial office workers and Nazis who engineered the Holocaust did not deserve to teach.
BTW.. Mr. Bradford is an Indian (Chiracahua Apache) unlike Churchill.
He should sue her *ss, isn't that what lawyers do?
I believe that this is a situation for the ACLU to look into. This is blatant discrimination in the workplace.
But seeing as this is on the IUPUI campus, it's not surprising.
I took a multimedia class at IUPUI taught by a raging liberal, and had the delicious pleasure of showing in class a project that was BLATANTLY pro-America, anti-leftist, and howlingly funny at the same time.
The project, when it was turned in, was accompanied by a subtle "reminder" that grading was to be on the basis of technical skill and mastery of the software, NOT content. (In other words, I used Lefty tactics and threatened a lawsuit LOL)
Potential Bush Federal Court Nominee, BTTT
The leftists want to control the universities. It kills them that anyone could disagree with them. It's the leftists who should lose their tenure.
I googled him and found this from 15 hours ago:
"University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill said he plans to take a sabbatical in the spring to finish a book about the repression of the Black Panther party."
Moonbat!
Do I have to cease and desist sending money to my alma matre (Purdue)? Is this a once great school on its way down?
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