Some thoughts on the firing of Ward Churchill

Some thoughts on the firing of Ward Churchill.

Don't underestimate the important precedent this sets. Ward was wrong, the 9/11 victims aren't the “little Eichmanns,” the University of Colorado at Boulder Regents are! From the article:

As to Churchill’s charges that the review of allegations was rigged against him, Brown called it an “extraordinarily long process” with “countless hearings” and said that “there isn’t anybody who can look you in the eye ... and say that this case hasn’t had due process.”

"Due process" through a rigged system misses the point of due process entirely!

Besides, since there is dissagreement over whether this is about political cencorship or academic integrity (it should be obvious which I believe), I still think it imperative that the benefit of the doubt must go to academic freedom. For censorship is a far worse fate than even a valid charge of misconduct; the credibility machine can work the latter out on its own!