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[olympian2004]

More news about Ward Churchill today from the Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman show on KHOW am 630 here in Colorado. They had a grandmother on as a guest who was at a Ward Churchill event in San Francisco back in the mid '90's.

Also:
In Colorado all professors, lawyers, politicians and others are required to sign an oath to uphold the constitution of the USA and the state of Colorado. Dan Caplis submitted a freedom for information act inquiry for all documents related to the hiring of Ward Churchill. The one missing document is this oath that must be signed by a professor before being allowed into the classroom. It'll be interesting to see if the Univ. of Colorado allows Churchill into the classroom on Friday.

Dan Caplis speculates that Churchill refused to sign this document back in 1991 when he became professor at CU. If this is the case the university has the legal right to fire Churchill immediately without due process. This is based on Colorado statute and a challenge to this law back in 1969 where the ruling was in favor of CU vs. a group of professors who filed suit back then.

The details on Churchill's tendency for violence:

(Check out the quote from David Lane, Churchill's lawyer, which are totally outrageous! and the details of the attack on the native American grandmother by Ward Churchill's wife)

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2716087,00.html

Clashes with Churchill found

CU records show several complaints about prof's behavior

By Arthur Kane
Denver Post Staff Writer

University of Colorado officials received repeated complaints about Ward Churchill's demeanor and temper, beginning two years before he was granted a tenured faculty position despite never going through the normal review.

Churchill was promoted at the university, and there is no record in documents released Wednesday indicating that he has ever been disciplined for inappropriate conduct.

Additionally, a university spokeswoman said Wednesday that while Churchill was required to sign an oath pledging to "support the constitutions of the United States and Colorado" as a condition of employment, the university has not been able to find a signed copy.

University officials who supervised Churchill said they had no recollection of the complaints in Churchill's personnel file, but those on the receiving end of what they described as Churchill's temper said they had not forgotten.

Retired university administrator and journalism professor Joanne Easley Arnold said she received a call from Churchill in 1989 during a controversy over the naming of a dormitory on campus. She was trying to get the dorm named for a former director of student housing. Churchill, not yet a professor, was pushing to have it named for the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes.

"He suggested I should back off my proposal and if I didn't, I would get hurt," Arnold said after she was contacted by The Denver Post. "I was shocked, and that's why my dean heard about it."

David Lane, a Denver lawyer representing Churchill, dismissed any claims of wrongdoing by his client.

"Obviously, the police didn't get involved ... and I doubt anything happened," Lane said.

CU officials are reviewing Churchill's writings and speeches after it was reported that he had likened some of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center victims to a top Nazi and made other controversial statements. Gov. Bill Owens and others have urged CU to fire Churchill.

The Arnold incident, which came five years after an allegation by Churchill's first ex-wife that he had threatened violence, is not documented in Churchill's file. She reported it to the dean of the journalism school, Arnold said.

Kaye Howe, a former administrator who had recommended Churchill for a one-semester teaching position at CU, also was not aware of the alleged threat but was not surprised.

"It was a very stressful period of time in renaming the building," she said.

In 1990, Howe was a vice chancellor and Churchill's supervisor at his job as director of the University Learning Center. She served as a reference for Churchill for a one-semester teaching job but expected him to return to the center. She was surprised when he received a tenured teaching job.

"The tenure process is a laborious and long one, and it's very rarely given early," she said.

Three years after receiving tenure, Churchill was again accused of inappropriate behavior.

In April 1994, two women wrote Charles Middleton, then dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, about a March 28 incident outside the San Francisco Press Club involving Churchill and his wife at the time, Marie Jaimes.

"Carol Standing Elk was leaving the Press Club when Marie Annette Jaimes brutally attacked and injured her," Deborah J. Cruze wrote in a letter to Middleton in Churchill's file. "Then, as Ms. Standing Elk was trying to recover from the attack, she was spit on by Ward Churchill."

Cruze could not be reached for comment, but Lane dismissed the incident, saying it comes from a person who did not like Churchill.

"Maybe she needed to be physically attacked," he said. "Maybe his wife acted in self-defense. Maybe she needed to be spit on."

Middleton, who at the time told Cruze the university would investigate, said Wednesday he did not remember the incident.

http://www.khow.com/hosts/caplis-silverman.html
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Tony in Boulder, Colorado

[Nutso]

Maybe Churchill has been able to re - create his records with the help of John Kerry. Check and see how many purple band-aids he has received.

[Darkhorse18]

Churchill is praying to be fired from his position he has the lawyers in place poised to act. Rather then act on past Churchill actions the university only has to wait. It is only a matter of time before Churchill steps on himself in grand fashion and that will be the proper time for the university to act. If the university attempts to fire him on some past actions they are going to pay a whole lot of money to Churchill and his lawyers. Good things come to he who waits. I have no doubt that Churchill will fall flat on his face.

[coldwarvet]

[AMOS]

I have given some serious thought to relocating in Colorado. Not so sure, now. I don't need to be any closer to old Psycho-Ward than I already am. He doesn't need me any closer, either.

[Tom Poole]

[blue9t3]

I wish he would haul his tee-pee over my way! I would love to attend his class so I could catch him up on all his BS. Chief squat-lick dog? (meet ya in the parking lot!)
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