Ward Churchill

University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill fired up many Americans by teaching his students to think of some of the 9/11 victims as Nazis. Now the president of the school wants him fired.

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News from Ward Churchill’s Court Case Against the University of Colorado

Written by mcforte on

From: openanthropology.wordpress.com

News for March 10, 2009

This week saw the start of the trial of the University of Colorado over its dismissal of Ward Churchill on the grounds that his firing was punishment for Churchill’s constitutionally protected free speech. At least four blogs are now covering the daily proceedings, which began on March 9 and are scheduled to last until March 27. The first blog, The Ward Churchill Trial, has a post up for today (”Not a Coincidence” March 11) detailing some of the exchanges between Churchill’s attorney and Phil DiStefano who was the CU Chancellor at the time of the university’s prosecution against Churchill following the media frenzy over his 9/11 essay. The exchange served to underline the fact that the timing of the CU case against Churchill was very telling, and directly connected not to questions of alleged plagiarism, etc., but rather the exposure of his 9/11 essay.

Thanks to The Ward Churchill Trial, I learned of three more blogs covering the proceedings:

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Posted in HEGEMONY, POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ACADEMIA Tagged: academic freedom, lawsuit, University of Colorado, Ward Churchill