He's gone, but not quietly. The question is, how many more "scholars" of Ward Churchill's caliber are there? I'd hazard it to be about as many as you'd expect in a system that relies on self-regulation and massive resistance to outside oversight.
National Review comments here: How Churchill’s Firing Diminishes the Campus Left
Inside Higher Ed has a good write-up: Ward Churchill Fired
Pirate Ballerina has links and pictures, here: The Party's Over...
"Syme: It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. You wouldn't have seen the [Newspeak] Dictionary 10th edition, would you Smith? It's that thick. [illustrates thickness with fingers] The 11th Edition will be that [narrows fingers] thick. Winston Smith: So, The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect? Syme: The secret is to move from translation, to direct thought, to automatic response. No need for self-discipline. Language coming from here [the larynx], not from here
[the brain]" -1984 (film) |
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He and Norman Finkelstein will end up being considered martyrs to the cause. To many on the far left, they'll be heroes trampled by a cruel system.
Maybe Noam Chomsky or others will fund a think tank to employ these guys. Probably, left-leaning departments in other universities will hire them for new tenure-track or non-tenure-track positions.
Whatever. I'm sure we haven't heard the last of them.
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about any of these guys. Churchill still has salary coming, and Finkelstein sells plenty of books.
You're right Sol, these guys won't have to worry about making the payments on their Volvos. It's still good news they won't be in the classroom systematically poisoning young minds with their indoctrination. I hope that not getting tenure or getting sacked serves as a lesson for their acolytes and wannabes.
Who knows, maybe students won't have to read Edward Said's Orientalism for nearly every humanities course they take. Could it be the pendulum is starting to swing back from the extreme left toward the center or, dare we think it, even to the right?
I'll answer your question about how many pseudoscholars are left as soon as I can figure out the keyboard shortcut for the infinite symbol.
Shades of Ward Churchill
Ward Churchill had a friend, Ruben G. Mendoza, a teaching assistant at the University of Colorado, Denver. Ruben’s department Chair Dr. Moore, for abusing students, booted him from the university, against which Mendoza promptly filed suit. Ruben, an ersatz Chicano, resurfaced as an activist, and got fast-tracked to tenure through one Steven F. Arvizu, at CSU Monterey Bay. Mendoza became the nosebleed of the fledgling university. Churchill was invited to CSUMB by Ruben to speak at a weeklong gathering of the clan. Mendoza also engages in academic misconduct, so far without consequence. The Duke lacrosse team fiasco shows that educators have created a phony cultural paradigm that distorts reality. And, no one exploits phony paradigms, obfuscates truth, or games the system like the Clintons. Point being, miscreants like Churchill and Mendoza have powerful political backers: the fish rots from the head.
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