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Embattled UC Professor Could Be Fired { Ward Churchill }
AP via SFGate ^ | 5/28/7

Posted on 05/28/2007 9:32:29 PM PDT by SmithL

DENVER, (AP) -- The president of the University of Colorado has recommended that a professor who likened some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi should be fired, according to the professor and the school.

Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, has denied the allegations and threatened a lawsuit if he is dismissed.

CU President Hank Brown made the recommendation in a 10-page letter sent to the chair of the committee that handles tenure issues. University spokeswoman Michele McKinney confirmed published reports about the recommendation Monday but said the school would not make the letter public.

The university's governing Board of Regents would have the final say on whether Churchill is fired or disciplined. It could be several weeks before the case ends up in its hands; the tenure panel must review it first.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: churchill; fakeamerican; fakeindian; fakescholar
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1 posted on 05/28/2007 9:32:34 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Not a chance.


2 posted on 05/28/2007 9:34:20 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charley the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: SmithL

Pffft...they didn’t have the balls to do it months ago, what’s changed?


3 posted on 05/28/2007 9:35:53 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: WKUHilltopper

Right. That’s what I was thinking?!


4 posted on 05/28/2007 9:36:33 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: SmithL

It at least sounds like CU President Hank Brown has some guts.


5 posted on 05/28/2007 9:39:44 PM PDT by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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To: SmithL

But then he’d have to get a real job.


6 posted on 05/28/2007 9:40:29 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: SmithL
The University of Colorado demonstrating its high standards...

Churchill is a proven fraud on virtually every front but he’s still there...

7 posted on 05/28/2007 9:40:44 PM PDT by DB
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

And why are people still sending their children to CU?


8 posted on 05/28/2007 9:41:31 PM PDT by TheThinker
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To: SmithL

Fired upon would be better.


9 posted on 05/28/2007 9:42:00 PM PDT by garyhope (It's World War IV, right here, right now courtesy of Islam.)
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To: SmithL
"I've got more faith in almost anything (than in the university process)," he said.

Almost anything . . .
10 posted on 05/28/2007 9:42:31 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: California Patriot

Tenure is sort of like a property right.


11 posted on 05/28/2007 9:44:18 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: California Patriot
>>>Not a chance.<<<

Well thats a relief. I've offered a $5,000 donation to the U of Colorado School of Engineering (ME) if Ward Churchill is fired without a pension on the grounds of falsifying his resume. I graduated from there in 1960.

Actually....it would be worth every penny to have to make good on my offer!! It would be one leftists Prof down.... 200,000 to go.

12 posted on 05/28/2007 9:46:58 PM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out of Qurans)
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To: SmithL

“Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, has denied the allegations...”

He DIDN’T call the WTC victims Little Eichmans?


13 posted on 05/28/2007 9:53:23 PM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: HardStarboard

Fired? He should be shot. (Or at least airdropped into the nastiest neighborhood in Baghdad with a picnic basket full of ham sandwiches and beer.)

But, a hearty hip-hip-hurrah for you, HardStarboard, for putting your money where your heart is!


14 posted on 05/28/2007 9:53:49 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus ("Eat yer groatcakes, Porgy!" "Heavy on the thirty weight, Mom!")
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
But then he’d have to get a real job.

Ft. Dix has a pizzaria looking for a new delivery boy.

15 posted on 05/28/2007 9:54:13 PM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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To: SmithL
Why is this taking so long? If it had been a conservative making those comments he would have been run out of town that night.

And who needs an "ethnic studies" department anyway? The discipline has been around for a generation and has only made thing worse.

16 posted on 05/28/2007 9:54:46 PM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (Oregon - a pro-militia and firearms state that looks just like Afghanistan .)
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To: SmithL

Could be fired?

Bunch of panty waists.


17 posted on 05/28/2007 9:56:35 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Taz Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge)
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To: weegee

Badly-written article. He’s not being punished for his vile comments; he’s being punished for plagiarism and academic fraud, and denies having committed either.


18 posted on 05/28/2007 9:57:18 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("I AM A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!!!" --http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0439.html)
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To: BraveMan; SmithL
"I've got more faith in almost anything (than in the university process)," he said. "A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far."

It appears that the rodomontade professor is making the case for us regarding the state of our universities.
19 posted on 05/28/2007 9:58:10 PM PDT by One_who_hopes_to_know
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To: SmithL
Ward Churchill is STILL THERE?...

Eventually its IMPOSSIBLE to FIRE a tenured professor..
The Peter principle on crack.. AND Meth... AND Heroin..

20 posted on 05/28/2007 10:02:28 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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