Ward Churchill. Have you heard of him? My guess is that you have. Way back in 2001, this tenured professor made some comments about the World Trade Center attacks, and about the people who died. His right to free speech was defended by his institution, the University of Colorado, in the face of calls to fire him. However, administrators subsequently launched an investigation into the quality of his scholarly work, and the committee concluded that Churchill had fabricated research data and plagiarized the work of others. In early July, the University of Colorado’s interim chancellor initiated the process to fire Ward Churchill. His teaching days at U of C are numbered.

Kevin Barrett, John Peter Daly, Deb Frisch, Douglas Giles, and Jeffrey Nielsen: Have you heard of them?

Kevin Barrett is a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, and he told an interviewer that he thought our government had engineered the attacks of September 11th. New Jersey part-timer John Peter Daly (who wrote an essay about academic freedom for the July/August 2006 Adjunct Advocate) replied from his private email account to a student email inviting him to a rally in support of the war in Iraq. In Arizona, Visiting Professor of Psychology Deb Frisch posted comments to a blog belonging to a conservative commentator. Chicago adjunct professor of religion, Douglas Giles, discussed Zionism and the Palestinian conflict in his class. Lecturer Jeffrey Nielsen, who taught at Brigham Young University, wrote a letter to the editor in support of gay marriage.

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