Chancellor: Fire Churchill
* By SARA BURNETT Scripps-McClatchy Western Service * *26-JUN-06 *
DENVER -- University of Colorado interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano announced Tuesday that he wants to dismiss professor Ward Churchill.
Churchill, an ethnic studies professor, has been under fire since an essay he wrote about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was widely publicized last year. In it, he called some victims in the World Trade Center "little Eichmanns," a reference to Nazi Adolf Eichmann, and said their deaths were the result of a murderous U.S. foreign policy.
A few weeks later, CU launched an inquiry into whether Churchill, a tenured professor, had committed research misconduct.
An investigative committee of five scholars in May ruled that he had, and it recommended he be fired or suspended without pay for two to five years.
The university's Standing Committee on Research Misconduct earlier this month agreed, saying Churchill's misconduct _ including plagiarism and fabrication of material _ was repeated and deliberate.
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