Lawyer: Suspension recommended for prof. [Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies..]

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Lawyer: Suspension recommended for prof.

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A University of Colorado committee has recommended that a controversial professor accused of faulty research be suspended for one year rather than fired, his attorney said.

Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, touched off a national firestorm with an essay that compared some of the 2001 World Trade Center victims to Adolf Eichmann, a key planner of the Holocaust.

It was some of his other work, however, that led an interim chancellor of the Boulder campus and an another committee to recommended Churchill be fired.

The professor was accused of misrepresenting the effects of federal laws on American Indians, wrongly claiming evidence indicated Capt. John Smith exposed Indians to smallpox in the 1600s, and claiming the work of a Canadian environmental group as his own.

After the firing recommendations, he requested a review by the university faculty's Privilege and Tenure Committee.

Churchill attorney David Lane said Tuesday that he didn't think Churchill should be disciplined at all, but he said the Privilege and Tenure Committee members were at least moving in the "right direction."

"This will make it more difficult for Hank Brown (president of the University of Colorado system) and the regents to fire him," Lane said.

Brown could still decide to fire Churchill, give him a lesser punishment or close the case.

[colorado tanker]

Hey, yo’ momma . . . .

[sitkaspruce]

Hank Brown better do the right thing. Otherwise he is all talk and no substance.