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Fifth Column
Ward Churchill Updates
2005-03-17
AIM leader claims Churchill once left threatening answering machine message
A 12-year-old audio tape of an angry answering machine message left by Ward Churchill has surfaced. Much of the audio is unintelligible, but a person identifies himself as Ward Churchill on the tape. The message was left on Vernon Bellecourt's answering machine in 1993. Bellecourt is a leader of the American Indian Movement. Churchill severed ties with the organization. Bellecourt said he felt threatened by the message, but he never filed a police report. The transcript is as follows:
"You siphoned a half million ripped off from Gadhafi. How many other thousand dollars have you taken from the native people's struggles? You keep it up and I won't just stand and look at you next time. You understand what I'm saying fat boy turned skinny? You decrepit old (expletive)"

Professor Who Wrote Controversial Sept. 11 Essay Denies Plagiarism, Threatening Others
An embattled professor who set off a firestorm with an essay comparing some Sept. 11 victims to a notorious Nazi denied allegations Wednesday he plagiarized another professor's work and physically threatened her. The allegations arose during negotiations between Ward Churchill and the University of Colorado over a buyout of his contract in the wake of his controversial essay resurfacing in January. Talks broke down Friday after the Rocky Mountain News reported that a professor at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia accused Churchill of plagiarizing her work and threatening her. Churchill flatly denied plagiarizing anyone's work and said he has sometimes made threats to sue, but has never threatened anyone with violence. "I have other things to do than sit up in the middle of the night calling people who irritate me," he told The Associated Press in an interview.
"That's when I sweep the old teepee and clean the buffalo."
In his essay written shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Churchill called some World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who orchestrated the Holocaust. The essay drew little attention until earlier this year, when it resurfaced after Churchill was invited to speak at Hamilton College in upstate New York. Relatives of the dead and the governors of New York and Colorado denounced Churchill and the speech was canceled because of death threats against the professor. University administrators are investigating Churchill's works to determine whether to recommend his dismissal. The results of the investigation are scheduled to be released March 28. Churchill, 57, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, said he would consider a buyout from the university if it could be "a template" for resolving similar disputes in the future. He said his goal was not to get rich. "Not only was (the proposed settlement) under a half million (dollars), it was well under," he said. Churchill also defended his scholarship, citing his nearly two dozen books and his various teaching and writing awards. "This is not an undistinguished career as a scholar," he said.
A distinguished career of undistinguished scholarship, then?
Posted by:Anonymoose

#7  Clint would punk this wanna-be bitch in 0.5 seconds
Posted by: Frank G   2005-03-17 8:09:44 PM  

#6  The High Plains Grifter, I heard him called today.
Posted by: Grunter   2005-03-17 8:03:29 PM  

#5  Since the guy was given tenure in the first place based on his false claim to Native American identity, why can't they revoke tenure based on the simple, clear, compelling evidence of fraud and misrepresentation? Why is this being drawn out in this way?
Posted by: thibaud (aka lex)   2005-03-17 5:06:43 PM  

#4  "A university is a community where people make a living by taking in each other's brain washing". I don't know who said that but it does seem appropo.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2005-03-17 2:53:45 PM  

#3  Churchill won't get the buyout that he wants. After the report from Dalhousie U. the CU regents decided that there would be none. I just hope they have the guts to finish him off and rid CU of at least one of the racist libs there.
Posted by: Gir   2005-03-17 11:46:46 AM  

#2  FYI - Iowahawk does it again on his website with CHUTCH AND THE CRANSTONS IN 'CURSE OF THE PUU-PUU! where ChurchillChutch and the Brady Bunch Cranstons go to Hawaii!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-03-17 11:23:04 AM  

#1  "I have other things to do than sit up in the middle of the night calling people who irritate me," he told The Associated Press in an interview.

"These pitchers ain't gonna forge themselves, y'know."
Posted by: BH   2005-03-17 11:14:04 AM  

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