Give Me the Churchill Treatment-Colorado trustees should fire Ward Churchill and hire me

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | July 10, 2006 | David Yeagley

[SJackson]

The University of Colorado has announced its decision to fire Ward Churchill, the man who has faked being Indian, produced erroneous scholarship, and even been accused of plagiarizing art. If CU-Boulder is willing to fess up to the fact that they paid a fraud $100,000 a year to hate America in the name of American Indians, why don’t they try hiring a real Indian who loves America? I have academic credentials and more years experience teaching at the college level than Churchill did before he was hired. 

 

Of course, I would have to make a few demands: CU would have to offer me the same privileges it gave to Ward Churchill. Here are my propositions, based on what CU’s own committee found. To get the full Churchill treatment, I would demand: 

 

• $200,000 a year starting salary. (Hey, at least I’m a real Indian.)
• immediate tenure upon signing the contract. After all, I do have a doctorate. Churchill does not, yet was given immediate tenure.
• the right to teach courses wholly unrelated to my degrees. Churchill taught “ethnic studies,” yet his master’s degree (from the early 70’s) was in communication. Therefore, I would expect the privilege of teaching Vietnamese floristry, Incan herbalist lore, or fashion photography criticism – beginning, say, with the work of Firooz Zahedi.
• the right to plagiarize in all my scholarly works, las the group found Churchill had plagiarized Canadian professor Fay G. Cohen, (Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia), then apparently threatened her, as he apparently threatens anyone who opposes him; it also states he plagiarized Canadian environmental group Dam the Dams Campaign and that he plagiarized Indian author Rebecca L. Robins the year after her essay was published. 
• the right to plagiarize artwork. The study reported Churchill mirrored the artwork of Thomas E. Mails, and before that had copied a historical photograph of Charles M. Bell, and then pawned this work off as Churchill originals.  In 1990 Churchill was blocked from selling his “work” as Indian art. 
• the right to have my third wife hired with me, in the department in which I teach.  Natsu Saito (Japanese), Churchill’s latest wife, was hired to teach in the Department of Ethnic Studies along with him.
• the right to be continuously investigated for 15 months, and then only after my viciously anti-American remarks (like blaming the victims of 9/11 for the attack) have received international coverage and disgraced the university.
• I demand all the details of my plagiarism and false scholarship be published in the national press for those 15 months, without repercussions. I also reserve the right to make “inflammatory and irrelevant” remarks to all who oppose me, and to freely threaten female opponents, and yet to be respectfully treated by committee chairs like Marianne Wesson, chair of the committee who examined Churchill.
• the right to create false information, and false research, the way Churchill fantasized about non-existent “blood quantum” statements in the 1887 Allotment Act, and in the 1990 Indian Arts and Crafts Act, and the way he completely fabricated “historical” information about “small pox infested blankets,” saying Capt. John Smith committed genocide against the Wampanoag in 1614 and that the U.S. Army did the same against the Mandan in 1837. 
• the right to be recognized as the true champion of free speech and academic freedom. When students at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, along with Rep. Steve Nass, protested the speech of Churchill in March 2005, Chancellor Jack Miller declared that the “academy is at its best when it functions as a forum for the free exchange of ideas...The university must follow its conscience.” And Churchill was apparently that conscience.
• the right to enjoy this infamy with a stream of steady speaking engagements at $50,000 a pop.

All this is only right, fair, and just. I’ve already demonstrated “grace under fire” when I was dismissed from Oklahoma State University-OKC for promoting patriotism. I didn’t file suit, even though I had Governor Keating’s support. I wasn’t investigated. I was simply ousted without fanfare. It would be much safer to hire me.

 

So, now I demand full acknowledgement, full recognition, and full compensation. Academically qualified patriots have a right to honor and a life of fame and fortune, too. And real American Indians have the same right to professorships at American universities that phony ones do.

If jobs were based on merit, I’d be a shoo-in. And if academia were as beneficent to conservatives as it is to hate-America leftists, I’d know what treatment to expect after I was hired.

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Dr. David A. Yeagley is a published scholar, professionally recorded composer, and an adjunct professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Liberal Studies. He's on the speakers list of Young America's Foundation. E-mail him at badeagle2000@yahoo.com. View his website at http://www.badeagle.com.

[kingu]

As an American Indian, I'd much prefer the Ethnic Studies Department to be disbanded and all employees fired. Alas, that would be culturally insensitive. One is forbidden by fear of being called racist from ever eliminating those creations that highlight and create the divide between the races.

Since that won't happen, the university would be well served by his hiring.

[Thombo2]

"Hey i'm a real indian."and a good writer as well.Unfortunately one of the prerequisites for the job is a "hate America" mentality.

[thulldud]

David Yeagley is a mensch, but since he'll never worship at the multiculti shrine, he's doing well to have any work at all.

Consider this: he observed that "it took the mightiest nation on earth to defeat me" (meaning, the Comanche). With that in mind, he noted that if this mighty nation then self-destructs in a plasma cloud of self-loathing that finds nothing of value in its entire history (which is what the multicultists say of the W European/American tradition), that besmirches all the other nations that have been defeated by it.

Ward Churchill, being only an ersatz Indian, doesn't have a dog in that fight.

[Lee'sGhost]

Dear Mr. David Yeagley;

As a CU Alum -- and recognizing the fact that you are writing sarcasm, so I take your list to be one of things you won't do like Churchill -- I heartily endorse your application. Of course my recommendation is meaningless but I hope you get the job any way. As I'm sure you know, CU-Boulder is the most beautiful campus in the U.S.

Enjoy.

Go Buffs! (Once that POS Churchill is gone.)

[GOPJ]

All this is only right, fair, and just. I’ve already demonstrated “grace under fire” when I was dismissed from Oklahoma State University-OKC for promoting patriotism. I didn’t file suit, even though I had Governor Keating’s support. I wasn’t investigated. I was simply ousted without fanfare. It would be much safer to hire me.

Too bad - patriotism's a big no-no. Brain-dead liberal Universities have one and only one iron clad requirement - a job applicant must hate this country.

[dsc]

"As I'm sure you know, CU-Boulder is the most beautiful campus in the U.S."

As another CU alum, I second the nomination. However, given that the CU campus crawls with liberals like the Greenpeace Warrior crawls with lice, I don't know that Dr. Yeagley would be happy there.

[Grampa Dave]

Bad Eagle is a real American Indian, a direct line descendent, not a Faux Indian like the vile liar, Churchill.

[george76]

Ethnic Studies Department is a joke.

At most this should only be a one semester class.

[Lexington Green]

Sorry. Chief. We only hire Indians from the Commie Tribe.

Luv - CU

[Paradox]

I remember that essay of his, it was excellent. Yeagley is a Great American.

[george76]

The conclusion one must draw from such examples isn't that every institution has its bad apples but rather that, at least in the liberal arts in America, moral turpitude and political hucksterism pervades higher education.

Radical criminals with questionable academic credentials flourish in a milieu that bristles with hostility toward real scholars who don't toe the party line—witness the case of former Harvard President Lawrence Summers.

Individuals with prison records or FBI rap sheets don't get into major educational institutions because they fudge their resumes.

They get in because they share the political dogmas of those who hire them—and they flourish for the same reason.

http://www.pirateballerina.com/blog/entry.php?id=397

[hubbubhubbub]

"I'd much prefer the Ethnic Studies Department to be disbanded and all employees fired."

And the cultural studies, peace studies, gender studies, Mideast studies, black studies, feminine studies! Don't stop with Ethnic Studies.

[Grampa Dave]

Exactly.

These university heads should be held liable for fraud and open for law suits by past students and parents of the students for hiring criminals and frauds like Churchill to be so called professors.

There are many criminals from the 1960/70's like Black Panthers and other dangerous a$$holes, who are on the payrolls of institutions as so called professors. They are frauds and the heads of universities who hired them and gave them tenure are frauds.

[Grampa Dave]

Ethnic studies should be a footnote in college textbooks explaining what a fraud the entire issue was.

Real professors would handle this in about one minute by explaining the so called ethnic studies were an act of fraud by the so called professors and those who hired them and gave them tenure.

[pepperdog]

Hey, I think you're entitled to back pay too, all that money that the University gave to the fake Indian.

[Lee'sGhost]

I'd love to go back, especially as a professor. Tormenting the lib students and other profs would be constant entertainment.

[Cicero]

Frankly, the University of Colorado is no worse than a hundred other similar institutions. Academia in most American colleges has been infiltrated and captured by leftist phonies. ALL the Ivy League colleges. ALL the state universities. MOST of the Catholic colleges. MOST of the private college.

There are exceptions, but they are few and far between. Even stalwart religious colleges like Wheaton appear to have been infected and endangered. And Baylor.

It's a sad business.

[dsc]

"I'd love to go back, especially as a professor. Tormenting the lib students and other profs would be constant entertainment."

Remember Dr. Zhivago? That college lib grew up to become Strelnikov. If you're going to make a habit of tormenting libs, you'd better also make a habit of checking your car for bombs.

[GAB-1955]

I announce Bob's University.

Our Colleges:
Mathematics
Science
Applied Science
Pre-Medicine
Agriculture
Psychology
Textile Science
Brewing

Definitely Excluded:
Women's Studies
Gender Studies
LGBT Studies
Anything with Studies in it

On Probation:
Sociology

Our Athletics Department:
The Fighting Bobs pay the highest salary for college athletes in the Eastern Western North Central Conference. Athletes are expected to take a heavy course load, however, including these classes:

Contract Law (why you can't renegotiate every year)
Accounting
Criminal Law
Finance
The Mathematics of Making Money
The Fine Art of Being A Sports Agent
Diction and Grammar for Broadcasters (taught by our excellent Drama Department, they will have you cover the game in iambic pentameter)
Drama (for soccer players only)

We believe in women's sports at Bob's University. In fact, we arrange it for you to use the same facilities as the men's teams, including the locker rooms.

ROTC.
We encourage it. In fact, we let our cadets shoot live ammunition. It's a riot during Riot Week, when we have our friendly competition against Moonbeam University across the street.

Dormitories
Our new Camp X-Ray Dormitory is patterned after the clean and comfortable dormitories for wayward Muslim students in Gitmo. Curfew is at 10:00 weeknights. We mean it.