Yeah! Break out the beer! Controversial professor, pretend Native Indian, and proud Jew-hater, Ward Churchill has been fired today. At 5:30 P.M. the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted 8 to 1 to accept the recommendation of President Hank Brown. To grieve, Churchill and his supporters did a rain dance outside the building and probably put a hex on Brown. We also will be dancing tonight. Hora, anyone?
From Channel 9 News via the Drudge Report: Regents vote to fir Churchill.
“This case was an example not of mistakes, but an effort to falsify history and fabricate history and in the final analysis, this individual did not express regret or apologize,” said Brown. “This is a faculty that has an outstanding reputation and this move today protects that reputation.”
“At the end of the day we had to look at what these three committees had presented to us and what 25 tenured faculty had said and that was really important to all the board members,” said Hayes.
When Churchill arrived for the vote, he was carrying two very long poles, which are a Native American symbol. People with Churchill also brought drums.
About 20 Churchill supporters gathered outside of the building where the meeting took place. Among them was Russell Means, a Native American activist and actor.
Churchill initially arrived around 8 a.m. on Tuesday when the meeting began. He was wearing his signature dark glasses with jeans and a black blazer, and arrived shortly before the meeting. He was surrounded by members of the media as he walked into the University Memorial Center and hoisted himself onto a side counter. As he began cracking jokes his supporters could be seen wearing T-shirts which read “It’s not about scholarship it’s about politics.”
