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Hallett Newman of Las Animas writes:

What is going on with all the drama over Mr. Churchill?? The man copied another persons work and passed it off as his own, that’s plagiarism!!! Mr Churchill was an ithics professor. Do we not see a problem here??? No where in all the bits in the paper I’ve seen has Mr. Churchill addressed the plagiarism issue, only the fact that his first amendment rights allowed him to call people “little Eichmanns” was abridged. Well may be he needs to read what Mr. Vincent Carroll had to say about that to day. See what Adolf Eichmann was all about. See if you might like to be called that. Mr. Bill Johnson was lamenting about Mr. Churchills first amendment right to say what he did and passed it off as “hyperbole” and “ . . . . knuckleheaded, who gets savaged for simply speaking his gut.” Well according to Mr. Johnson’s article on 14 Ar 2007, “Johnson: Imus obvious, but subtle racism stings, too", Mr Johnson didn’t want to affor the same first amendment right to Don Imus. You can’t have it both ways. Either it’s right or it’s wrong. Mr. Johnson needs to make up his mind. Calling Americans “little Eichmanns is no differnt, nor less derogatory, then what Mr. Imus said.

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READER COMMENTS

You know how it goes. It is only ok to be prejudiced if you are a member of a minority group and bashing a 'white' person. That makes it all right in the eyes of the liberal media.

Thanks for the Emily Latella perspective, shameful behavior for an ithics professor. Now what's all this I hear about Soviet Jewelry?

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion as I'm entitle to mine. There's an irony to the firing of Professor Ward Churchill. At the time Prof Churchill called some of the victums of 9/11 as little Eichmans there was an outcry, especially in Colorado that the Holocaust never happened. This statement alone in which he made forced the government, people and obviously the University to admit the Holocaust REALLY happened. To me I disagree they were little Eichmans but am glad he said that because now people can't walk away and say the Holocaust never happened when it did.
As far a plagarism goes I doubt Prof Churchill committed an offense like that as he's far to educated to do so. I took college classes in California between '92 & '95 in which some of the material I read said Martin Luther King plagerized. I knew when I read this it was an attempt to discredit a great man who gave his life for equality for all regardless of race creed or color.
At University's they usually try to hire professors of all different types of opinions & beliefs whether you agree with them or not.
Final word, "I'm enjoying the fact America cannot deny the Holocaust happened even though so many have tried". What Prof Ward Churchill said & was his opinion actually turned around something very evil which was threatening America & that again I repeat was forcing people to admit the Holocaust happened.
People in general tend to believe what they read whether it be the a book, the press or public opinion. I believe with all my heart Prof Ward Churchill did not plagarize & was entitled to his opinion, as we all are & should not have been fired.
Nanette Heaney

Nanette,

There were three separate investigative panels which included more that 20 of Prof. Churchill's peers. They investigated the Professor's work for more than two years and reached the unanimous conclusion the the Professor established a pattern (not an isolted incident) of "serious, deliberate and repeated research misconduct that fell below the minimum standards of professional integrity."

But his case was about more than academic misconduct. The Professor became an elitist inslutated the rarified air of the university who never accepted personal responsibility for the problems. When confronted with specific instances where he rewrote history to fit his own theories, he attributed the errors to "his editor or publisher, his assistant, or his former wife and collaborator."

Universites are accountable to the people of Colorado. The University's reputation was called into question by the Professor.

He was fired to demonstrate that the University remains accountable to the people it serves.

That is a thought that no doubt sends shivers down the spine of those faculty who have, to date, managed to avoid the hygienic measures the Professor brought upon himself.

That is an added benefit.

I sure hope Ward whats-his-name slithers off into oblivion. Bye bye Mr. plagiarist guy!

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