Revolution #52, June 25, 2006
The
Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado
at Boulder voted 6 to 3 this week to recommend that Ethnic Studies
Professor Ward Churchill be fired. In doing so it went beyond the
conclusions of four out of the five members of its own investigative
committee appointed to look into the charges, who called for Churchill
to be suspended for 2 to 5 years. The university administration may now
move rapidly to put the final touches on a vicious witch hunt that
started over 16 months ago(aimed at driving Professor Churchill from
the university, destroying his reputation and career, and delivering a
chilling message to radical and progressive faculty on college campuses
across the country to ‘watch what you say, watch what you write.’ It
remains for the provost and the dean of arts and sciences to send a
final recommendation to Interim Chancellor DiStefano. [read more]