Prof Ward Churchill Submits Report 
 
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 21:24:58 -0500 (CDT)

 
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Colorado Professor Submits Report in Probe
By P. SOLOMON BANDA, Associated Press Writer  
Tue May 17, 2005

DENVER - A University of Colorado professor facing
possible dismissal after being accused of plagiarism
and lying about his American Indian heritage denied
the allegations again in a report he submitted Monday
to a committee investigating his actions.

Ward Churchill, who first came under fire for an essay
comparing Sept. 11 victims to the Nazi bureaucrat who
planned the Holocaust, offered a 50-page,
single-spaced report to a university committee
investigating the allegations.

His lawyer, David Lane, said Churchill also submitted
his tribal membership card showing he is an associate
member of the Keetoowah Cherokee band. Lane said
Churchill's membership was based on an investigation
by a tribal genealogist.

"Permeating the entire response is 'Look, this is
motivated by my First Amendment rights being trampled
on. For me to even have to answer this is a denial of
my First Amendment rights, but since you asked, here
is my answer,'" Lane quoted Churchill as saying.

Churchill, who Lane said was out of town, did not
immediately return phone messages left by The
Associated Press. CU spokeswoman Pauline Hale said the
work on the school's Standing Committee on Research
Misconduct is confidential and could not comment.

In his response to the plagiarism allegations, Lane
said Churchill in one instance simply took articles
written by other people and put them together for a
chapter of one book, which Churchill did not take
credit for.

"His name does not appear as the author of the piece.
He was asked to edit it, and he did. He checked for
typos, punctuation, grammar, those type of things. He
never claims himself as the author," Lane said. "That
is not plagiarism."

In at least two other cases Lane said Churchill
authored articles and gave them to others who took
credit for them. At least one of those people later
accused Churchill of plagiarism.

The university launched the investigation after the
controversial Sept. 11 essay came to light earlier
this year. A panel headed by acting chancellor Philip
DiStefano concluded Churchill could not be fired for
his essay, but directed a faculty committee to
investigate the plagiarism and ethnicity allegations.

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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

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