AS: How do you know Ward didn't try really hard? Wilson makes some points in his Higher Ed piece; one is about intent...
"Because Colorado’s policy explicitly exempts “honest error,” the Colorado committee turned into a kind of character police. Noting their dislike for Churchill’s “attitude,” the committee members seem to have concluded without the slightest evidence that Churchill intentionally deceived readers with his footnotes."
If I remember correctly, no one on the investigating committee recommended that Churchill should be fired; at least, the majority favored suspension of some duration. As this gets kicked higher up the bureaucracy at UC, the higher-ups want to fire him.
Meanwhile, Douglas Feith gets appointed to Georgetown; faculty raise procedure-based concerns, and the Dean parries; at the very end, he takes pains to establish that he's a good liberal and would shut down Guantanamo tomorrow if it were up to him...
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/11/1445248
Thursday, May 11th, 2006 Georgetown Faculty Object to Appointment of Iraq War Architect Douglas Feith as Professor in School of Foreign Service
Feith publishes his first book in October, so unfortunately, no footnotes to go through. Maybe he got a good reputation as a lecturer for all those government briefings... He'll be teaching a class on counterterrorism, but somehow, I don't think indigenous peoples of the Americas are on his historical timeline.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5792702,00.html
"Ex-Pentagon Official to Teach at Georgetown"
aaron
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