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2005-02-27 Fifth Column

CU weighs buyout for ~~asshat~~ firebrand prof

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Posted by Raj 2005-02-27 11:19:19 AM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 LOL. Fred, you're gonna get sued by the Kickapoos for associating their tribe with Churchhill. Too bad Al Capp is not still around to weigh in on the 'Big Chief Spouting Bull' matter.

Posted by GK 2005-02-27 2:49:11 PM|| 2005-02-27 2:49:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I think the taxpayers will be outraged at a buyout. They are already outraged that Churchill was hired and promoted.

If we were into getting people fired why not fired the people who hired and promoted Churchill?

Posted by mhw 2005-02-27 3:04:22 PM|| 2005-02-27 3:04:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Let's be friends, here's a gift to my RantBurg colleagues.
crow farm

Posted by Ward 2005-02-27 4:47:43 PM|| 2005-02-27 4:47:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 This is bullshit. I think he should be 1) fired, and 2) serve five to ten for outright fraud.

And those idiots who hired him should be fired for gross stupidity.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-02-27 5:49:01 PM|| 2005-02-27 5:49:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 It's not easy to revoke tenure unless you actually commit a crime or violate a hard-line university rule. For example, I know of a certain ex-faculty person at my institution who was canned -- in about an hour's time, tenure or not -- when an employee presented evidence, including (apparently) videotape, of said faculty person's inability to keep his hands to himself. But short of that sort of violation or breaking a law, tenure is difficult to break. It's supposed to be difficult, that's the whole idea.

The real problem for the University of Colorado is, how in hell did they give this guy tenure? Or, even better, how did he get a faculty appointment in the first place? It's clear from the news that Mr. Churchill was not vetted properly either at the time of his original appointment to the faculty (he was hired after working as a temp for some sort of remedial education program) or when he was tenured. Apparently the tenure committee didn't read his work as they were supposed to do, or the dean overruled the committee. Either way, they screwed up.

If I were a Colorado taxpayer (hi Old Spook!) I'd be angry at Churchill, but I'd be thoroughly pissed at the University for screwing this up. I think Churchill's lies should cost him his job.

But more importantly, the dean and the provost that let this happen need to lose their jobs.

Posted by Steve White 2005-02-27 6:08:33 PM|| 2005-02-27 6:08:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 eh, he'll just end up at Evergreen or Columbia or some other lame-ass "school".

Posted by BH 2005-02-27 11:03:30 PM|| 2005-02-27 11:03:30 PM|| Front Page Top

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