Ward Churchill has been fired: "University president Hank Brown, in a news conference, said 'the decision was really pretty basic' based on the board's findings. Churchill was accused of plagiarism, falsification and other infractions." Gateway Pundit has a good roundup, and of course lots more can be found at Pirate Ballerina.
UPDATE: Remember that this firing is not about his "little Eichmann's" essay as several AP headlines assert, but, as the Rocky Mountain News writes, charges related to his scholarship:
• Historical facts: Churchill manufactured events in which European Americans intentionally spread smallpox to kill Indians. In one such event, the Army is said to have distributed tainted blankets to Mandan Indians. But no evidence backs the claim.
Elsewhere, Churchill claimed the United States adopted a formal racial code to identify Indians, similar to the code used by the Nazis to identify Jews. U.S. law includes no such code, legal scholars say.
• Plagiarism: Churchill published an essay on water issues in Canada that closely resembles a pamphlet by a Canadian environmental group. He also borrowed a work on fishing rights originally published by Canadian scholar Fay Cohen.
• Falsifying sources: Churchill wrote essays under the names of other people, which he then cited as independent sources in his footnotes.
UPDATE II: More thoughts on the Churchill firing.
UPDATE III: This morning's Wall Street Journal includes a piece by Hank Brown and the university's decision to fire Churchill.
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