Ward "Little Eichmann's" Churchill Finally Canned
Churchill was fired by the University of Colorado board of regents in a 8-1 vote. He was fired for plagiarism, falsification, and other stuff. He wasn't fired for calling 9/11 victims "little Eichmann's"; but he should have been. The man is obviously an idiot and has no business teaching kindergarten, much less at a university. He thinks the statement is why he was fired and is claiming it violates his first amendment rights. The 1st amendment doesn't apply to employers. If his rights were violated, he would be in jail instead of fired. His planned lawsuit should fail miserably. In the "real" world, you can't tell your boss to F*** Off, or something of the like. If you do, you're out the door. It's called personal responsibility.
The University of Colorado's governing board on Tuesday fired a professor whose essay likening some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi leader provoked national outrage and led to an investigation of research misconduct.
Ward Churchill vowed to sue, saying "New game, new game," after the Board of Regents' 8-1 vote was announced.
Three faculty committees had accused Churchill of plagiarism, falsification and other misconduct. The research allegations stem from some of Churchill's other writings, although the investigation began after the controversy over his Sept. 11 essay.
"The decision was really pretty basic," said university President Hank Brown, adding that the school had little choice but to fire Churchill to protect the integrity of the university's research.
"The individual did not express regret, did not apologize, did not indicate a willingness to refrain from this type of falsification in the future," Brown said.
Churchill's essay mentioning Sept. 11 victims and Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann prompted a chorus of demands for his firing, but university officials concluded it was protected speech under the First Amendment.
But Brown recommended in May that the regents fire Churchill after faculty committees accused him of misconduct in some of his academic writing. The allegations included misrepresenting the effects of federal laws on American Indians, fabricating evidence that the Army deliberately spread smallpox to Mandan Indians in 1837, and claiming the work of a Canadian environmental group as his own.
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