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Monday, January 31, 2005
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"While I am immensely proud
of my administrative accomplishments... ... in the chair's position over the past two-and-one-half years, it is my considered view that the present political climate has rendered me a liability in terms of representing either my department, the college or the university in this or any other administrative capacity," writes Professor Ward Churchill in a statement issued this evening, announcing his resignation as chair of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado. UD wonders if, by “the present political climate,” Churchill means that if he’d made his September 11 statements during a Carter or Clinton presidency, they would have been received differently. Churchill is not a martyr to rightwing extremism or whatever he thinks he’s living under. He’s a victim of his own inhumanity. UD also wonders - Where are the letters and editorials from his students defending Churchill? He has taught and administered at CU for a long time. Surely someone should have written something by now, conceding, for example, that Churchill’s latest remarks were indefensible, but that they should not obscure the good he has done as a teacher, a role model … Anyway, the next move for Churchill is, UD thinks, clear. Withdraw from the speaking engagement at Hamilton (big crowds are now expected, and the security situation will be a nightmare), and get to work on his next Up Yours, America book, which will sell, after all this attention, like hotcakes. |