WARD CHURCHILL UPDATE. The Rocky Mountain News reports that since the University of Colorado Board of Regents decided that they couldn't get away with using university funds to buy out Ward Churchill, there was speculation that the UC Foundation might provide the money. Now that, too, appears squashed. The sad thing is that 7 of the 9 regents were willing to buy Churchill out before the Nova Scotia plagarism charge gave them hope. Now they are postponing a decision another two weeks.
For insight to the squishy Democrat thinking on why he should be bought out, read this opinion piece by Rocky Mountain News columnist Paul Campos.
Of course it's extremely distasteful to pay Churchill anything. If life and law were fair, he would have been fired long ago. But they aren't - and one consequence of this is that there's a real risk Churchill will win his lawsuit.
In other words, compound an error in judgement by making the thing just go away so no one is answerable for having hired a crackpot. Maybe they should just take the Canadian view espoused by their Foreign Affairs Minister to offer absolution to the U.N. with an injunction to "move on."
UPDATE: Denver Post dire prediction that Ward Churchill case could take years. I hope so. If it focuses attention on the lack of scholarship and disreputable administration at universities, it's a good thing. But that's exactly why Libs and Democrats want a quick buyout.
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