February 27, 2005

Whatever it Takes

Wretchard at Belmont Club gives a good account of why firing Ward Churchill is not only absolutely necessary, but is also only a first step toward cleaning out the Augean Stables that academia has become:

The Rocky
Mountain News depicts the CU administration as practically paralyzed
with fear at the possible retaliation Churchill could visit on them should they
attempt to chastise him.

University of Colorado President Betsy Hoffman had some fairly strong words Tuesday for those who have argued that professor Ward Churchill should be fired. "The more talk there is about the need to fire him, the more difficult it becomes for us to do that, if that's what we decide to do," she told Republican lawmakers, urging them not to join calls for action. "If we approach this issue wrong," she said, "not only will every regent be sued personally, but every administrator will be sued personally and professor Churchill will win his lawsuit with triple damages and be back on the faculty, a very wealthy man at our expense."

This fear, whether real or pretended, is an impressive demonstration of the power of Political Correctness,  a compound of legal menace, the threat of extralegal action and of retaliatory vilification that is not some figure of speech but an actual, material force. Even if Churchill is 'bought out' at $10 million -- should he stoop to accept such a beggarly sum -- he will have unambiguously demonstrated the value of leftist protection. That he could have survived repeated exposure as an ethnic identity thief, academic fraud and art forger; that he could have assaulted a newsman on television and withstood the personal opprobrium of the Colorado Governor, only to receive a fortune in compensation, can only add to his fame.

What has become patently obvious is that the only way to fix this mess is to "go to war" on the University system as it now stands. For a start, defund the ethnic studies department. Then the Colorado legislature should institute a 20% across the board cut in all liberal arts programs(because that is where this rot originates. If a settlement is made with Ward Churchill, the state shouldn't pay for it. All university presidents should be political appointees(or subject to statewide election), and should have final signing authority on tenured posts. Yes, that would open up the post to cronyism and various sundry other nasties, but it would have one very salutary effect--it would put real accountability on an institution that has behaved as if its funds came out of the sky, and not taxpayers, something which Ward Churchill himself believes:

"I do not work for the taxpayers of the state of Colorado. I do not work for Bill Owens. I work for you."

And therein lies the issue. Academics at state institutions like to pretend that they have no accountability to the people who pay their salaries. They think they can turn their campuses into little Stalinist enclaves with speech codes and political indoctrination, with the right to destroy the academic careers of those who do not follow leftist orthodoxy, and promote the careers of those who parrot the right(read: leftist) words. Ward Churchill's promotion and tenure occurred simply because he was a leftist with faux American Indian credentials. His actual academic record was unimportant.

It is time for the elected officeholders in Colorado to disabuse academia of that notion. If that means making pink slips rain like confetti, so be it. If it means putting CU in some form of academic receivership, fine. If it means canceling every contract with every professor at that institution, do it. This is about far more than Ward Churchill. It is about destroying the Stalinist, hate-filled institution that academia has become today. Permitting the continuation of the status quo is simply intolerable.

Posted by John Bono at February 27, 2005 11:23 AM| Link Cosmos

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