Churchill fires back

AP ^ | 6/27/6

[george76]

"...Ward Churchill would do himself some good to express a profound apology to people he has offended and misled.

He should also come clean about his appropriated American Indian identity. "

http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096410293

[george76]

 

"The comments he made were very very damaging and very hurtful," Giuliani told a crowd of about 2,000 at the Coors Events Center.

"I think the remarks were extremely cruel," he told reporters  "He inflicted a tremendous amount of pain on these families."

Giuliani compared Churchill being on CU's faculty to having a geography teacher who believed the world is flat.

"He's entitled to that opinion, but you don't want him to be teaching geography, do you," Giuliani said.

[george76]

The University of Colorado's report on the investigation of Ward Churchill's alleged scholarly misconduct has just been released.

Churchill was found guilty of deliberate false assertions, misrepresentation of sources, and plagiarism.

Among other things, Churchill was found guilty of passing off others' work as his own (plagiarism), but also of passing off his own work as others'.

This "permits the author to create the false appearance that his claims are supported by other scholars when, in fact, he is the only source for such claims"...

http://www.homofactuspress.com/2006/05/south_end_press_needs_damage_c.htm

[george76]

" When one of his students, a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian, wrote a piece raising doubts about his claimed biography, he dropped her grade from an A to a C-minus."

[GOPJ]

The University's afraid of being sued by the fraud Churchill, but the New York Times can print classified material without fear? What's wrong with this picture?

[dighton]

In pursuit of this purely political objective, the interim chancellor has at this point expended more than a year and upwards of $250,000 in taxpayer monies.

I don’t recall Chief Humbug squawking about taxpayer wampum showered on him.

[GOPJ]

It's sort of like someone on trial for a crime, and when faced with the prosecution's evidence, prattling on and on about the short-comings of the prosecutors and witnesses, without actually bothering to explain an alternate reason for his fingerprints on the smoking gun found at the crime scene.

Kind of like saying it's just about sex? Or that the investigation costs 40 million? The creepy German/Swiss(?) fraud is a liberal in the great traditions of petty lying democrats...

[fish hawk]

If Churchill is let go by Colorado, he may have an offer from the U. of Hawaii. He was over here not too long ago and had a standing room only crowd and standing ovations on every lie he told. I'm sure they could find a position for him. Cindy Sheehan also pulled a big crowd at the University of Hawaii and they just loved her. I live in a sick state. I am an American Indian (a real one) and if that SOB comes here I may have to scalp him.

[BamaAndy]

"When one of his students, a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian, wrote a piece raising doubts about his claimed biography, he dropped her grade from an A to a C-minus."
Now isn't this typical of leftists? Sure it is. Since their very body of beliefs are based on lies, the lies must be upheld! So what if a student must pay? They have no shame, no credibility and no depths they would not stoop--it's the agenda! that's important to them... hope he finds work away from teaching his junk at a college so he can learn what really is... the cretin.

[george76]

What about the students rights ?

Of course, Ward does not care about his students, truth, accuracy, nor real academic scholarship.

Unfortunately, Ward will have a book deal and then hit the lecture circuit raising big money for his lies.

[Bernard Marx]

That would do much to constrain the magnitude of damage sustained by the University - and consequently the taxpayers - when my case goes to court, as it ultimately will.

That's the key paragraph. This statement is merely the publicity build-up for a long and drawn-out lawsuit financed by the American Association of University Professors, the ACLU or other like-minded groups.

The AAUP already has a healthy legal docket as can be seen here. The Churchill matter is made to order for these zealots who will see this case as a major threat (true!) to their right to indoctrinate students with whatever they like, from homosexuality and bestiality to Stalinism.

[William Tell]

Mr. K said: "A claim that cannot be substantiated because the original artist is dead, but his son claims he would never have given such permission."

If I understand correctly, Churchill was selling prints using that artwork, was he not? It wouldn't be reasonable for Churchill to have permission to use the artwork commercially without a written agreement and without giving credit to the original artist.

The family of the artist may need to defend any copyright they have or they risk losing it. It would be fitting if Churchill was forced to give up any severance payment from the university to pay for copyright infringement.

[Moonman62]

Indeed, as regards the allegations of fraud raised by Interim Chancellor DiStefano, whether what I wrote is true or false is irrelevant. The ONLY relevant consideration is whether I had reason to believe it was true.

That was a Seinfeld episode. It's not a lie if you believe it.

[daviddennis]

Oh, I read it, and I recommend that anyone else interested in this case do likewise.

They bent over backwards to help him and he still came out very, very bad.

Despite this, I don't think the university as a whole really wants to fire him. They were really looking for any excuse to keep him. And that's very interesting.

I think the Interim Chancellor's sole job is to get rid of him, which is also interesting. Didn't he say he wanted to do it before the permanent guy assumes office, so that he won't have what will be perceived as bloodstained hands?

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[daviddennis]

Actually, in prolonging this case by going through the whole dismissal procedure, he's going to get at least four more months of salary. What did he make, something like $175k?

That's going to be about $58k he'll get for not raising a finger, since he's on administrative leave.

I strongly suspect his appeal is going to be equivalent to a full-time job for at least one person at his pay level, probably considerably more than one. That means at least another $58k.

So he's squandering more than $100k of the university's money to deal with this case, plus whatever it will cost to defend and settle his lawsuit.

We can laugh all we want about ethnic studies, but does anyone else think he looks like he wants to kill us?

http://www.colorado.edu/EthnicStudies/faculty/churchill.html

I doubt that I'd love the rest of the Ethnic Studies faculty either, but none of them have quite that hostile a look. You can check out their bios and photographs here:

http://www.colorado.edu/EthnicStudies/faculty.html

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