dadgummit well who is and he what is he to you
Makes Me Ralph reports that CU says all your professors are belong to us.
I'd be lying if I said I wasn't kinda sorta hoping Churchill does get fired: the resulting lawsuit would force CU's regents into the bright light of the courts, where they'd have to make their case to the machinery of the legal system rather than pander to Bills O'Reilly or Owens.
As far as making the grounds for canning Ward, it will probably come down to the college finding some professor somewhere that's willing to hustle for CU, an anti-Ward, and with the kind of friction and divergent views on American Indian issues - a subject that doesn't encompass Ward's best work, but is essential nonetheless - that exist in academia, that shouldn't be too hard. But bottom line, the review for "inaccuracy" in Ward's work is a cheap and underhanded way around the probable firing, which would be a strictly political manuever - the "inaccuracy" bit is strictly CYA, and makes for good copy (and mad props to Westword's Patricia Calhoun for her Churchill-CU turd in last week's issue - though daily columnists often bear an intellectual resemblance to your drunken uncle on a rampage, you can be sure to count on weeklies for a weak and limp-wristed "think piece" when it counts most, one that of course ultimately says nothing except that they're not your drunken-uncle-on-a-rampage kind of writer. Way to go, Pat!).
The University of Colorado might win the battle by firing Ward, but the war could and would be won in the court, and with any luck, whatever rough beast is stirring on the Hill and in CO's college Republican clubs will back down for a bit.
Or at least until the gay marriage referendum gets on the ballot.
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