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Ex-professor blames firing on smears
Washington Times ^ | March 11, 2009 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 03/11/2009 6:12:46 AM PDT by libstripper

Former University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill went to court Tuesday in a bid to get his job back, contending that he never committed plagiarism and was instead jettisoned for likening Sept. 11 victims to Nazi bureaucrats when blaming what he called unjust U.S. policy for the terrorist attacks.

David Lane, Mr. Churchill´s attorney, argued that the university caved under pressure from the "howling mob," which he described as a nationwide conservative smear campaign aimed at destroying Mr. Churchill´s reputation.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: academia; ayers; churchill; wardchurchill
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To: 70th Division

The attorney fees are funded by other radicals.


21 posted on 03/11/2009 7:18:57 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: RonF

Precisely. Churchill apparently forgot the Howling Mob paid his salary. Consider yourself fired, Fraudy McIndian.


22 posted on 03/11/2009 7:28:30 AM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: libstripper
Poke here for the "Report of the Investigative Committee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder concerning Allegations of Academic Misconduct against Professor Ward Churchill."

It's a long, detailed, and downright fascinating read, including a lot of very interesting historical research and discussion. They pretty much ripped Ward a new one.

For example, in a discussion of "Research Misconduct" on pp. 23-24, the investigators excoriate Churchill's misleading use of references (to allegedly independent sources):

To put it most simply, it was part of a pattern and consistent research stratagem to cloak extreme, unsupportable, propaganda-like claims of fact that support Professor Churchill’s legal and political claims with the aura of authentic scholarly research by referencing apparently (but not actually) supportive independent third-party sources.

They go on to cite several cases where Churchill refers to his own writings -- either written under pseudonyms, or sometimes to writings that themselves make reference to Churchill's own works.

23 posted on 03/11/2009 7:33:54 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: libstripper

If there’s a second term for our current Emperor, (shudder) look for Ward as Sec of Education in 2014 or so....


24 posted on 03/11/2009 8:16:01 AM PDT by Mac from Cleveland (How to make a small fortune in the Obama era--first, start off with a big fortune....)
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To: libstripper
Ex-professor blames firing on smears

What a bunch of pap.

25 posted on 03/11/2009 8:20:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: george76; libstripper

Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art

PING!


26 posted on 03/11/2009 8:48:17 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Former Governor Bill Owens expected to testify in Churchill trial Wednesday

http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-embattledprofessor-lawsuit031009,0,2526312.story

Vote there too.


27 posted on 03/11/2009 9:01:25 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
Do you think the University of Colorado caved in to a "howling mob" when it fired Professor Ward Churchill, as his attorney claims?

87% say NO! LOL!

Churchill is in the advanced stage of the liberal leftist disease.

28 posted on 03/11/2009 9:15:20 AM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo

Even many Boulder liberals are now tired of Ward’s games.


29 posted on 03/11/2009 9:23:49 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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