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Carol Lee Smith wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2005, Barney Lyon wrote:
>
> > "When They Came for Ward Churchill"
> >
> > Embattled Professor Ward Churchill speaks on the controversy over
his
> > essay, his treatment by the media and the people calling for his
> > firing, and even execution, for 'treason'. In this hour-long
program,
> > Prof. Churchill invites FSTV into his home to tell the side of the
> > story told nowhere else on American television: his side.
>
> What/where is FSTV?  Free Speech TV?  Is this web cast?
>

FSTV is a cable television station like CSPAN II, MSNBC, the History
Channel, the Food  Channel, A&E, UCTV, UWTV, PentagonTV, etc.  It is
available through satellite television.  I get it through DishNet.

> World NUT weighs in:
>
> "University committee reviewing Ward Churchill includes supporters
>
> "Two administrators on the committee that will determine whether
> controversial professor Ward Churchill gets fired have a long history
of
> praising him and signing off on hefty salary increases. Newly
released
> documents shed light on how Churchill, who has never earned a
doctorate,
> received tenure in one, rather than the customary seven, years. Read
it
> now on WND.com.
>
> "  http://www.worldnetdaily.com/  "
>

It's funny how conservatives balk at institutions that they think are
liberal monoliths such as tenure and civil service.  They criticize
what they believe isn't a meritocracy.  How unAmerican it is.  How "no
place else in America do you have a protected job for as long as you
live," but they obviously forget the federal judiciary, where
independence of thought is protected with a lifetime job as well.

Conservatives also, ignorantly, think that the tenure system is carved
in stone - if you have a Ph.D. and if you have taught for 7 years you
automatically get it.  Or that a Ph.D. and 7 years of teaching in one
institution of higher learning is a minimum requirement for tenure.  It
isn't.

Universities generally offer tenure to those without a Ph.D. or a
minimum of 7 years teaching as an enticement to talented, accomplished
and valuable people who have much to contribute to a student body.
Most often these people come from outside of the academic community,
having achieved success in a corporate career, in the field that they
are being asked to teach (and offered tenure).  They may work at the
University on a year to year contract, and negotiate tenure as a term
of their continued employment.

It's as free a market system as it gets.  You would think that
conservatives would laud it.  But they don't.


> > Schedule(ET): Feb 18th(Fri-8pm), 19th(Sat-3am, 7am & 7pm),
20th(Sun-8am
> > & 3pm), 21st(Mon-4am & 3pm), 22nd(Tues- 8pm & 11pm), and
> > 23rd(Wed-3:30pm).
>
> > http://www.freespeech.org/fsitv/html/specialprograms.shtml
>
> > Churchill's essay, "Some People Push Back":
> > http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/churchill.html
>
>
> Experts See Military Draft as Inevitable
> http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/18/9166/09308

Obviously Ward Churchill is a remarkable teacher and extremely valuable
to the University of Boulder.  You would know that by having heard him
speak, or reading his essays.

I don't care about the man's ethnicity, or what conservatives think
about his heritage, or some backstory daytime drama they have concocted
about "he's not a 'real' native American - another native American says
he isn't!"  Who gives a shit?  You sound like old women gossips.

Even if any of the conservatives' complaints about Churchill were true,
it wouldn't change the truth of his speech or his essays.  But they
don't want to hear that.  Before they will listen to him speak, or let
anybody else hear him speak, the high priests of rightwing conservatism
must vet.