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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:00:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: MichaelP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Ward Churchill dismissed as U of Colorado prof.
U. of Colorado Board of Governors claims firing necessary to uphold "the
integrity of the University's research " !!
It's a "payback for free speech, ..It sends a message out to the academic
community generally that if you stick your neck out and make politically
inflammatory comments, you will be dragged through the mud for two years
and you will ultimately have your tenure terminated.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6803182,00.html
UP
The Guardian (London) Wednesday July 25, 2007 3:16 AM
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - The University of Colorado's governing board on
Tuesday fired a professor whose essay likening some Sept. 11 victims to
a Nazi leader provoked national outrage and led to an investigation of
research misconduct.
Ward Churchill vowed to sue, saying ``New game, new game,'' after the
Board of Regents' 8-1 vote was announced.
Three faculty committees had accused Churchill of plagiarism,
falsification and other misconduct. The research allegations stem from
some of Churchill's other writings, although the investigation began
after the controversy over his Sept. 11 essay.
``The decision was really pretty basic,'' said university President
Hank Brown, adding that the school had little choice but to fire
Churchill to protect the integrity of the university's research.
``The individual did not express regret, did not apologize, did not
indicate a willingness to refrain from this type of falsification in the
future,'' Brown said.
Churchill's essay mentioning Sept. 11 victims and Nazi leader Adolf
Eichmann prompted a chorus of demands for his firing, but university
officials concluded it was protected speech under the First Amendment.
But Brown recommended in May that the regents fire Churchill after
faculty committees accused him of misconduct in some of his academic
writing. The allegations included misrepresenting the effects of
federal laws on American Indians, fabricating evidence that the Army
deliberately spread smallpox to Mandan Indians in 1837, and claiming the
work of a Canadian environmental group as his own.
But the essay that thrust Churchill into the national spotlight,
titled ``Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,'' was
not part of the investigation.
That essay and a follow-up book argued that the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks were a response to a long history of U.S. abuses.
Churchill said those killed in the World Trade Center collapse were ``a
technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial
empire'' and called them ``little Eichmanns.''
Churchill has said Eichmann was a bureaucrat who carried out policies
like the Holocaust that were planned by others but was still
responsible for his own actions.
Churchill wrote the piece shortly after the attacks, but it drew
little notice until 2005, when a professor at Hamilton College in
upstate New York called attention to it when Churchill was invited to
speak there.
In the uproar that followed, the regents apologized to ``all
Americans'' for the essay, and the Colorado Legislature labeled
Churchill's remarks ``evil and inflammatory.''
Bill Owens, then governor of Colorado, said Churchill should be fired, and
George Pataki, then governor of New York, called Churchill a
``bigoted terrorist supporter.''
Churchill remained on the university payroll but had been out of the
classroom since spring 2006, first because he was on leave and later
because the school relieved him of teaching duties after the interim
chancellor recommended he be fired.
The lone no vote on Tuesday came from Regent Cindy Carlisle, who could not
be located for comment.
``I am going nowhere,'' Churchill told reporters, calling the academic
investigation ``a farce'' and ``a fraud.''
Churchill's attorney, David Lane, said that the decision was
retribution for Churchill's Sept. 11 remarks and that he would file
suit on Wednesday.
``For the public at large, the message is there will be a payback for
free speech,'' Lane said. ``It sends a message out to the academic
community generally that if you stick your neck out and make
politically inflammatory comments, you will be dragged through the mud for
two years and you will ultimately have your tenure terminated.''
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