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06-27-2006, 08:42 AM
University of Colorado Interim Chancellor to Recommend Firing of Ward Churchill
Monday, June 26, 2006
DENVER — The top official at the University of Colorado's flagship campus on Monday recommended that the school fire the firebrand professor who compared some of the World Trade Center victims to a Nazi and later was accused of academic misconduct.
Ward Churchill has displayed "a pattern of research misconduct committed over a period of time," Interim Chancellor Philip DiStefano said.
Churchill, who did not return telephone messages, has 10 days to appeal the recommendation to a faculty committee. A tenured professor of ethnic studies, he has denied allegations of plagiarism and other misconduct and has called the school's investigation a joke.
Churchill's attorney, David Lane, said Churchill will appeal through university channels, but does not think the school will reverse the firing.
"I can't imagine that CU is going to suddenly decide the First Amendment deserves some respect," Lane said, adding that a lawsuit would be filed if the firing is upheld. "I trust juries to make these decisions, not bureaucrats," he said.
In an essay written shortly after the 2001 attacks, Churchill described some of the victims in the World Trade Center as "little Eichmanns," a reference to Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann. The essay was largely ignored until January 2005, when it came to light before Churchill was to speak at Hamilton College in upstate New York........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201046,00.html
Monday, June 26, 2006
DENVER — The top official at the University of Colorado's flagship campus on Monday recommended that the school fire the firebrand professor who compared some of the World Trade Center victims to a Nazi and later was accused of academic misconduct.
Ward Churchill has displayed "a pattern of research misconduct committed over a period of time," Interim Chancellor Philip DiStefano said.
Churchill, who did not return telephone messages, has 10 days to appeal the recommendation to a faculty committee. A tenured professor of ethnic studies, he has denied allegations of plagiarism and other misconduct and has called the school's investigation a joke.
Churchill's attorney, David Lane, said Churchill will appeal through university channels, but does not think the school will reverse the firing.
"I can't imagine that CU is going to suddenly decide the First Amendment deserves some respect," Lane said, adding that a lawsuit would be filed if the firing is upheld. "I trust juries to make these decisions, not bureaucrats," he said.
In an essay written shortly after the 2001 attacks, Churchill described some of the victims in the World Trade Center as "little Eichmanns," a reference to Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann. The essay was largely ignored until January 2005, when it came to light before Churchill was to speak at Hamilton College in upstate New York........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201046,00.html