CNews 13June06

Woo-freakin'-hoo, dude. Congratulations to you and to the people at CU who got one right.

  — Bill Hennessy () (URL) - 13 June '06 - 17:45

To quote some entertainer or other, "Is everybody HAPPY?"

  — jgm () (URL) - 13 June '06 - 17:59

Altogether excellent news. Predictable that he "questions the timing" as a senator might say, but it's his own fault for being a fraud to being with.



You can either be quietly phony or loudly honest, but loud and phony will always bring trouble eventually.



Now we can start on the quiet phonies.

  — McKreck () (URL) - 13 June '06 - 19:58

Yes, Churchill is getting 86ed from the U. and he deserves to go. That does not mean, however, that American Indians did not get historically shit-sticked by this great nation...

  — Anothabrotha - 13 June '06 - 20:33

No, Anothabrotha, it just means that Churchill has lied about it. Repeatedly.

  — SPQR () (URL) - 13 June '06 - 20:43

The RMN article that is going to tell what is next is not showing up.

  — Bragg - 14 June '06 - 07:07

"Is everybody happy?" No, as a CU alumni and as an academic I am not. This whole sorrid affair has besmirched CU's academic reputation in general and its reputation in the Humanities specifically. My academic career is built upon the reputation of my work and the institutions I have studied and worked at. Ward Churchill's complete unprofessionalism has seriously damaged CU's reputation, the reputation of my alma mater. Since this controversy erupted I have constantly been asked "what the hell is going on there?" and "has Colorado always been this bad?" These questions have been coming from fellow academics and administrators. (I am on the East Coast) Even the administrative assistants have asked me what is going on with my alma mater. Sending out a c. vita with CU on it for a job in the humanities is not going to be very helpful for quite a while. The majority of Churchill's defenders in Academia are ideologues. The vast majority of academics involved in hiring are not ideologues. When the SCRM writes about the seriousness of the academic misconduct Ward Churchill has committed and its impact the committee is dead on. Six recommended firing, two for a five-year suspension without pay (on a practical level the equivalent of a firing), and only one for a two-year suspension without pay. That is a brutal recommendation given that these type of committees are always looking for a quiet resolution in order to protect the institution's reputation. Unfortunately in this case it is going to take years for CU's reputation to be repaired from the damage Churchill has created. More years than I have in this business. I did not spend years in kitchens working my way through CU and later graduate school to have a phoney political hack like Ward Churchill trash the reputation of my alma mater and by extension besmirch the reputation of my education. No, I am not happy. I am furious! There needs to be some serious self-evaluation at CU. To be blunt: Ward Churchill was hired as a PC reaction to the Sand Creek Massacre protests 120+ years after the event. He was then fast tracked through the tenure process so the administration could show "progress" by hiring an "authentic" Native American and promoting him. Well act in haste, repent in leisure. The only problem is those that acted in haste are mostly gone and it is the graduates, current students and faculty, and people of Colorado who get to repent in leisure. And Ward Churchill, he'll just turn himself into a poster boy of the repressed left done in by the "right wing" and make money on the lecture circuit. This is not a recipe that makes me happy it just makes me want to puke.

  — [rex] - 14 June '06 - 10:34

Hand me the bucket, Rex. And I still have one year of tuition, room and board to fork out.

  — Laurie - 15 June '06 - 10:29

I'm a physician and you're certainly correct about my view of U- C's humanities dept.They seem to function as sinecures of political correctness for people who aren't too bright.An economist made the point closing every dept. which has the term "studies" would probably benefit the university

  — colin () - 15 June '06 - 17:20

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