Ward Churchill Accused of Plagiarism

For crying out loud, if you're going to do shabby work, can't you at least do your own shabby work?:

University of Colorado officials investigating embattled professor Ward Churchill received documents this week purporting to show that he plagiarized another professor's work. Officials at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia sent CU an internal 1997 report detailing allegations about an article Churchill wrote.

"The article . . . is, in the opinion of our legal counsel, plagiarism," Dalhousie spokesman Charles Crosby said in summarizing the report's findings.

Churchill did not return calls to his home or office Thursday seeking comment.

Dalhousie began an investigation after professor Fay G. Cohen complained that Churchill used her research and writing in an essay without her permission and without giving her credit. Although the investigation substantiated her allegations, Cohen didn't pursue the matter because she felt threatened by Churchill, Crosby said.

Crosby said Cohen told Dalhousie officials in 1997 that Churchill had called her in the middle of the night and said, "I'll get you for this."

Nice, huh? Bear in mind this guy openly and unashamedly exhorts his nitwit students/sycophats/cultists to commit terrorism. So this threat -- if actually made -- isn't of the theoretical sort.

Is there even a question this man is a charlatan who needs to be ish-canned as soon as humanly possible?

What the hell does a leftist professor have to do to get fired, anyhow? Admit to being the long-sought "real killer" in the OJ Simpson murder case?

I think leftist academics would even defend that -- after all, severing a woman's head is just a particularly vivid (if somewhat aggressive) form of free academic expression.

Thanks to NickS, who sarcastically notes, "My surprise meter is busted."

posted by Ace at 02:42 PM

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