University Panel Backs Firing Ward Churchill
A University of Colorado committee recommended that the university fire a controversial professor, citing his alleged repeated research misconduct.
Ward Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, denied the allegations. He has vowed to fight his expected dismissal with a lawsuit.
The panel did not address his essay relating the 2001 terrorist attacks to U.S. abuses abroad. The essay referred to some World Trade Center victims as “little Eichmanns,” a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who carried out Adolf Hitler’s plan to exterminate Jews.
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