Ward Churchill's lawyer threatens lawsuit

Summit Daily News ^ | 8/20/05 | AP

[wagglebee]

I think he should be on an UNPAID sabbatical until they can find grounds to terminate him.

[SteveMcKing]

"Ward Churchill's lawyer said a decision to put the professor's sabbatical on hold amounts to retribution"

Speaking of "retribution", Ward has admitted to damaging state property in the hundreds of dollars as retalitation for getting speeding tickets.

[DoraC]

I would advise Gov. Owens to not give that buffoon so much attention... He really enjoys it.

[ncountylee]

How can they be moving so slowly? Grass grows at warp speed by comparison.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

pay him for the sabbatical only if he agrees to a GPS bracelet with current location published live on the internet ;)

[Redbob]

I find it hard to believe they're actually conducting this investigation.

Churchill is too liberal even for Boulder!

[Valin]

CU started reviewing his other writings.

You mean they weren't before. I know I should be surprised at this..but I'm not.

[gatex]

The judge, quoting the legal precedent of the illegal immigrants being awarded property, has awarded the University of Colorado to Ward Churchill.

[Prime Choice]

"If they're stopping him from taking his sabbatical, that is an adverse employment action," Lane said.

Lawyer Lane needs to understand that his client's conduct is what created the necessity of the actions by his client's employer.

In short, sit down and shut up, Herr Lane.

[Prime Choice]

CU started reviewing his other writings. You mean they weren't before. I know I should be surprised at this..but I'm not.

A lot of very large organizations don't check such things. I once worked for a very large nationwide agency in the late 1980s that had employed a number of people who claimed Masters degress and so on. When an audit was done, it was determined that, not only did these people not have M.S. or M.A. degrees; many didn't even finish undergraduate studies.

[Jacquerie]

If they're stopping him from taking his sabbatical, that is an adverse employment action," Lane said.

See how great unions/tenure are?

[vpintheak]

On thing that needs to go is the tenured system in colleges. If a professor is no good they should get the boot. It is worse than a union, the scum can almost never be removed. I fully expect the college to back down and give in to the worm though.

[wagglebee]

I wonder if the left will never understand that the rest of us (who don't work for the government, universities, or join leftist unions) get a few weeks of vacation and sick days every year. In the real world we don't get sabbaticals, there is work that needs to be done and taking six months off isn't an option. If I told my boss I needed to take six months off, he would need to hire someone else, this only proves how unimportant whatever courses Churchill teaches really are.

[Pharmboy]

It should go before a Native American court.

[kellynla]

University of Colorado Standing Committee on Research Misconduct

[wagglebee]

It should go before a Native American court.

I've never quite understood that term; hell I was born in this country, doesn't that make me a "native American"?

[kellynla]

Ward Churchill

[Pharmboy]

Yeah...I know...nuance is hard to see on posting. I am also a Native American (by several generations). I was trying to be a bit ironic since they don't believe Churchill has any Indian blood in him and would throw him out.

[wagglebee]

Yeah, I know, I should have added "sarcasm."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Gov Owens is afraid of Ward Churchill's shadow.