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Saturday, February 05, 2005

Tenure 
Both Glenn Reynolds and Cori Dauber have come out and said that as odious as Ward Churchill's comments may have been, Colorado U. shouldn't fire him because he's a tenured professor.

Well, both Glenn Reynolds and Cori Dauber are tenured professors - and no doubt somewhat controversial themselves on campus, given their overall Bush-friendly views.

Well, I think what's happening here is a perversion of the tenure system. Colorado University should back professors on both sides of the liberal-progressive split. Democrats and Republicans, and Greens and Libertarians, and even the odd Marxist ought to be welcome on campus, IF they are hip to the enlightenment, and are generally grounded in reason and fact-based argument.

But that protection ought not to be limited to just tenured professors. Every staff member of an academic institution ought to receive the same leeway.

But by referring to the victims of 9/11 as "Little Eichmans," Ward's rhetoric became uncoupled with factual analysis and reason.

By misrepresenting himself as an American Indian, that may be prima facie reason enough to let him go.

I don't think Colorado University would be wrong to stand by him and say "well, he is a professor expressing an opinion, and although it's a stupid opinion, we're going to stand by him so as not to quell freedom of expression among smart professors."

(But if ever there were a profession in which it were important to eliminate stupid people from its ranks, wouldn't college professors be first on the list?)

But to hide behind tenure?

Nobody is suspending the 1st Amendment. Nobody is saying Churchill doesn't have a right to espouse these beliefs. But Churchill does not have a right to continue sucking at the government teat, either.

If it were a good idea to stand by every nutcase in academia, then why don't we grant immediate tenure to ALL professors?

As an officer, there are certain things I can't say, and still have a right to expect the government to cut me a regular check.

Doesn't mean I don't have the right to freedom of expression. I just can't do it and stay in the Army.

Same thing with any other job.

I think it's probably time for college professors to start living in the real world like the rest of us - in which chronic stupidity has, you know, consequences.

Besides, maybe we NEED to scrap the whole lot of tenured professors, and start from scratch. Maybe a 100% turnover in professors every 8 years or so is a good thing. We would have more diversity of opinion, and we would have less intellectual insulation.


Splash, out

Jason


Comments:
Now just imagine why the Native American vote is so liberal. Churchill probably uses "Guns, Germs and Steel" as his bible.

It is time to make college worth attending again. I'm tired of the perversion that passes for English Lit.,English, Religion Studies, and History.

This is still America; Ward Churchill can speak his mind as a former teacher.
 
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