From the Denver Post.com (2/28/05) - About 200 University of Colorado faculty members have signed a full-page ad in today's Boulder Daily Camera demanding that school administrators end an investigation of professor Ward Churchill.
The advertisement purports to defend "Professor Churchill's right to speak what he believes to be the truth." Today's ad, paid for by the 200 signers, says the school is investigating because of what Churchill wrote, rather than a "prior formal complaint of specific professional or academic misconduct on his part."
Supporting free speech is one thing. Supporting a skilled liar's right to say & do anything he well pleases without consequences is another.
His hateful rhetoric aside, Ward Churchill is a liar and a fraud. He has lied about being a Native American, he has written poorly researched papers espousing fraudulent views, he has plagiarized works of art and received remuneration for the "artwork". And this may just be the beginning because everytime you scratch at the edifice that was Churchill's reputation, you find more artifice and lies.
According to the University of Colorado's website, there were 1,012 tenured and tenure-track faculty members at CU in 2004, and another 1,069 instructional faculty. This ad campaign tells me that roughly 10% of the University of Colorado faculty has mush for brains.
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