Stories today on MetroSource and AP both say he’s going to sue the University; Brown issued an academic version of “bring it on.” I think Churchill is delusional if he thinks he has any chance of (1) getting his job back and (2) regaining a single iota of credibility. I also have a feeling, talking to some friends in academia, that the faculty committee’s decision to recommend demotion and suspension was more for show than a serious reccomendation – they pretty much knew Brown was going to fire the guy. Still, I think that not recommending outright dismissal sends a message that the CU faculty has lowered the bar just a little. I might feel differently if I were an actual faculty member, but it does seem like they didn’t quite step up.
But without Ward Churchill, who will people spuriously identify as the left-wing equivalent of Michael Savage and Ann Coulter?
Well, there have been a few people on these Boards who have suggested Michael Moore and Al Franken as appropriate candidates. Patently ridiculous, of course, but there you go.
Well, I’d say it’s probably academic politics, that they decided to play “good cop” and NOT recommend the max penalty because they have to live and work among those who would have backed Churchill, long after Brown, who may be considered an outsider “suit” by members of that academic community, is gone.
I think I agree with every sentence of this post.
When this kerfluffle first started, both newspapers in Denver went into rarely seen anymore quite detailed investigative reporting about Churchill’s deficiencies. Since then, I’ve only been waiting for the string to run out, and so, I imagine, has Churchill. If he has any sense, he will stop spending money on a lawyer, and start saving it so as to put off the evil day when he has to start living off his royalties.