Move over, Ward Churchill
After reading portions of Churchill’s interview comments at CNN, I have one reaction: move over, poster boy, and let us professionals do the heavy lifting to defend academe. An example: Look, man, I riveted the entire nation on—what did I rivet the entire nation’s attention on? It’s just boilerplate now … there’s no analysis of […]
Surprises from Cambridge to California
In a few days, the University of Colorado at Boulder lawyers stop negotiating a buy-out with Ward Churchill’s lawyer, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education blog goes a bit overboard in making factual claims about the Foothills College imbroglio over a student’s paper, there’s a big online todo about whether David Horowitz has been […]
Syllepsis
I’ve now committed syllepsis unintentionally—in my entry yesterday on Ward Churchill, I meant to explain separately that fraud allegations are not all honest and that institutions and colleagues must therefore be careful, but I was sloppy and out came, “Academics can lie about each other and requires some care in investigation.” Does this now put […]
And now, the plagiarism accusation
Thanks to Ralph Luker for pointing out new allegations that Ward Churchill plagiarized work by a Canadian writer; according to the report, when she refused to have her work in one of his edited works appear in a second publication, he wrote something under his name that was remarkably similar. This may be part of […]
No longer funny to me
Via Bitch, Ph.D. came notice of another academic blogger’s cynical universal disclaimer for students in courses. Hmmmnnnn… I guess I don’t feel the need to gripe about students these days. Maybe it’s because there are bigger fish to fry in my professional life, or maybe I just have thick skin, but sarcastic or griping comments […]