Ugh, not to revive last week's discussion, but I don't think we could
have asked for a worst "first major academic freedom case" than one
requiring us to defend the likes of Churchill...<br>
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<p><span class="headline1">Chancellor: Fire Churchill </span></p>
<p><font class="smalltext" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><b> By SARA BURNETT<br>
Scripps-McClatchy Western Service <br></b>
<b>26-JUN-06 </b></font></p>
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DENVER -- University of Colorado interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano
announced Tuesday that he wants to dismiss professor Ward Churchill.</p><p>
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.</p><p> A few weeks later, CU launched an inquiry into whether Churchill, a tenured professor, had committed research misconduct.</p><p>
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.</p><p> 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.</p><p> </p><p>
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<i>(Contact the Rocky Mountain News at <a href="http://www.rockymountainnews.com.">http://www.rockymountainnews.com.</a>)</i>
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