Ward Churchill Accused of Plagiarism
The Ward Churchill dogpile continues. More bad news for the embattled professor:
Laura Frank - March 11th, 2005 University of Colorado officials investigating embattled professor Ward Churchill received documents this week purporting to show that he plagiarized another professor's work.
Officials at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia sent CU an internal 1997 report detailing allegations about an article Churchill wrote.
"The article . . . is, in the opinion of our legal counsel, plagiarism," Dalhousie spokesman Charles Crosby said in summarizing the report's findings.
Toss this in with evidence of a violation of copyright law in regards to one of his paintings, his manhandling of a reporter who tried to question him about it, and questions surrounding his ethnicity and resume, and you've got yourself a big old mess.
This begs the question: didn't Churchill know that these things would (or at least could) come out if he drew attention to himself? If I had a small village's worth of skeletons in my closet, the last thing I'd do is go on Bill Maher's Real Time, or show up on Paula Zahn Now.
The only explanations are either a) that he wanted the attention and fame badly enough to risk that possibility, or b) that he simply underestimated the blogosphere. I think it's a bit of both.
Hat tip to InstaPundit.
» March 12th, 2005
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