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Ward Churchill Update
Posted by Raven on August 19th, 2005
From time to time I hear about my least favorite Indian-Want-A-Be, Sir Ward Churchill. He doesn’t make the news as often as he did last spring, but when he does, it’s interesting.
The allegations against University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill being considered by CU’s Standing Faculty Committee on Research Misconduct are as follows:
• That Churchill misrepresented a key statute in Indian law and also mischaracterized the Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990.
• That Churchill has repeatedly advanced a theory charging the U.S. Army with an act of genocide against the Mandan Indians in 1837, citing sources that actually contradict his claim.
• That Churchill plagiarized the work of professor Fay Cohen of Dalhousie University in Canada.
• That Churchill improperly claimed American Indian heredity to gain a wider audience and greater credibility for his scholarship.
• That Churchill plagiarized a defunct Canadian environmental group’s pamphlet on a shelved water diversion project.
This inquiry is taking forever, as they all do I guess. I get the feeling the people on this panel aren’t looking for closure at this time.
The University of Colorado faculty committee on research misconduct may report the results of its inquiry into the work of ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill as early as today.
“It should be tomorrow,” David Lane, a Denver attorney representing Churchill, said Thursday. “That’s their timeline. That’s what they said at our last meeting.”
But exactly how, when or even if an announcement will be made publicly remains unclear.“I am not aware of any announcement planned for tomorrow,” CU spokeswoman Pauline Hale said late Thursday.
The committee’s rules, Hale said, place great emphasis on confidentiality. They also create what is anything but a streamlined process.
The probe into alleged plagiarism and other possible research misconduct by Churchill, which has been under way since mid-April, up to now has been in the hands of an “inquiry committee” that is part of a larger Standing Faculty Committee on Research Misconduct.
The inquiry process normally lasts 60 days, but the inquiry committee was granted a 60-day extension on June 15, when Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano added to its workload by ordering a review of additional allegations against Churchill that were first reported in early June by the Rocky Mountain News.
According to university rules controlling research misconduct reviews, the “inquiry committee shall decide by recorded simple majority vote whether sufficient credible evidence exists to warrant a full investigation of any or all of the allegations.”
Once that vote is taken, “The inquiry committee shall provide its recommendation in a fully documented written report” to the full committee, the rules state.
This is way too complicated. Just investigate and report the findings. All these stupid rules stifle the truth.
Meanwhile the Needs-A-TeePee-Enema Churchill is planning on a nice vacation to write a book. I can’t wait to read that…
Churchill, meanwhile, is not planning a heavy workload this academic year.
He is teaching just one seminar, American Holocaust, with a maximum class size of 27, this semester.
CU officials also have confirmed that Churchill has applied for a sabbatical in the spring semester to complete a book.
August 19th, 2005 at 9:03 am
Ward Churchhill is a(n) ______________.
Fill in the blank with your favorite description or your favorite epithet.
August 19th, 2005 at 12:51 pm
LOL way back in the early spring I wrote a lot about this freak and used all sorts of names for him…YOU really don’t want to know.
:twisted:
August 20th, 2005 at 12:34 am
Oh this is so choice. The chickens have come home to roost.
August 20th, 2005 at 10:44 pm
A class on the “American Holocaust”??? I was aware of the Holocaust the Jews suffered at the hands of the Nazis, but I wasn’t aware of one here in America. Oh. Wait. The Indian-Professor must be talking about how the Native Americans were treated…. perhaps he is pressing for reparations for the American Indian, and of course I am sure he would like to have a hand in the $$$.
August 22nd, 2005 at 2:08 am
Needs-A-TeePee-Enema? ouch…
The whole School is as bad as the liar.
they should all get the boot.
and I love the lefts response, “well what about the US Army killing Indians?” everyone should execute themselves as punishment. Bad America, Bad America
August 22nd, 2005 at 7:55 am
The problem is one word: tenure. They really are having a hard time getting rid of him — if the school really does want to (and I don’t think they do, I think they’re just dragging their feet until people forget about him).
August 24th, 2005 at 10:02 am
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August 24th, 2005 at 10:53 am
CARNIVAL OF THE CLUELESS #11
Huhray…Huhray…Huhray…Step right up ladies and gents. See the strangest and oddest collection of cluebats on planet earth! “If they’re clueless, we’ve got ‘em” is our motto. Die-rect from Washington city …
August 24th, 2005 at 1:02 pm
Just a Wednesday
Today’s dose of NIF – News, Interesting & Funny, Wednesday style.
August 24th, 2005 at 3:07 pm
Ask Pat Roberson what the solution is.