Posted on 03/24/2005 5:49:43 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
Does Ward Churchill even exist?
Dr., Native American, original artist, serious scholar, combat veteran, highly recruited and sought-after academic, ex-Weatherman mentor: How many — if any — of these seven faces of our real-life Dr. Lao are true?
Professors outside the arts at major research universities are supposed to have Ph.D.s. The phantom Ward Churchill does not. How he was hired, promoted, and tenured without a doctorate is a mystery — the equivalent of a high-school teacher credentialed with an AA degree, or a medical doctor operating without an M.D.
Ward Churchill proclaimed that he is a Native American of various tribal affiliations; he is not. Even his ridiculous costumes, occasional threats, and puerile rants cannot disguise that fact.
He seems to be a pop artist of sorts, but his canvasses are not quite his own either. Those of like political mind have praised his scholarship, but much of what he writes seems derivative, or misrepresents or outright plagiarizes others.
Churchill has spoken of the firsthand trauma of battle service as a combat veteran, both as a paratrooper and as a sniper — among the most hazardous of corps in the United States military. Once again, there is no such evidence that he served in any capacity other than what his official duties in a motor pool and as a projectionist entailed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Perhaps it is best to think of Churchill as our aging portrait of an academic Dorian Gray, in whom all the once-hallowed university’s vices and sins of the last half-century are now so deeply etched and lined.
— Victor Davis Hanson
---Churchill has spoken of the firsthand trauma of battle service as a combat veteran, both as a paratrooper and as a sniper ---
He was a draftee, served two years, no Airborne, no Rangers, no Special Forces, no Sniper training.
Bump
Churchill has spoken of the firsthand trauma of battle service as a combat veteran, both as a paratrooper and as a sniper — among the most hazardous of corps in the United States military. Once again, there is no such evidence that he served in any capacity other than what his official duties in a motor pool and as a projectionist entailed.
— Victor Davis Hanson is a military historian
He did write for Soldier of Fortune...or did he?
Look at Ward Churchill as the head of the university's political wing and it all makes sense.
That's what these minority studies departments are all about.
Great article. Read the whole thing.
When I left academe in 1987 I wrote a letter to the journal of the American Historical Association suggesting that historians needed to police their own. They published the letter, but it does not look as though they accepted my suggestion. In fact, there are lots of unqualified people teaching out-of-date and erroneous material in universities and their specialized colleagues may not be the best judges of the merit of their scholarship.
Yup. Any department with "Studies" in it's title is just a political entity. The students are merely props.
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Seven faces? More like two instead.
Didn't Churchill costar opposite Jack Klugman in that one? :-)
There are a few other areas that don't require Ph. D.s but they have terminal degrees -- J.D., M.D. are the most obvious. I think maybe architecture doesn't have a Ph. D.
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