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Free Speech For Sale.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)(Editorial)
Academia: The week's most infuriating news item so far is datelined Boulder, where University of Colorado officials are considering buying out professor Ward Churchill. Let's hope it's just a passing thought.
Churchill's employment at the university should instead be abruptly terminated -- not necessarily for his rants in an essay that called the victims of 9-11 "little Eichmanns," but because he isn't scholar material and seems to have misrepresented himself to his employer, claiming to be an Indian when he is not.
Churchill's embellishment of his heritage let him rise to a professorship -- at $96,000 a year -- and the chairmanship of the school's ethnic studies department. It couldn't be his academic record. He has only a master's degree, not a doctorate, and his published papers are more angry bombast than scholarly works.
Yet Churchill enjoys the comfort of tenure and a forum that lets him shape ideas in young people's minds and spew whatever left-wing, anti-American venom that slithers into his head.
It is Churchill's Eichmann comments, though, and his America-bashing that have put him into a fire so hot that university regents want to get rid of him. They don't think they can dismiss him outright without a messy legal fight, so they're reportedly weighing an offer of early retirement.
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