Churchill Appealing to Keep Job

The New York Times reports that Ward Churchill, who has been indicted for academic misconduct and dismissed from the University of Colorado, is fighting to keep his job.  Note that the Times article starts out in a way that makes it seem Churchill has been fired because of what he said about September 11th:

The University of Colorado professor who likened some Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi official has appealed to keep his job as university officials move to fire him for what they say is research misconduct.

For "what they say is research misconduct"?  As if it hasn't been proven?  I wrote about the decision to fire Ward Churchill a couple of weeks ago, which I basically argued that there is no reason Churchill should be fired because of what he said (despite how contemptuous those comments were) but rather because of what he has done (meaning his academic misconduct).  Read my entry to see my full argument.  Anyways, the decision to fire Churchill rests on the investigative report of his academic fraud, which you can read here (pdf alert), though you'd never know it reading the introduction to the Times article.  The Rocky Mountain News has a much more informative report.