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...Scrapbook Ward Churchill's Comeuppance In April 2005, when Matt Labash profiled University of Colorado at Boulder professor Ward Churchill in these pages (Churchill's the guy who achieved notoriety by calling 9/11 victims "little Eichmanns"), Labash ran into a Bay Area American Indian Movement activist named Earl Neconie protesting outside of a Churchill speech at Berkeley...

...That said, after reading their findings, Churchill might want to change his name to Heap Big Pile of Bull...

...In fact, the protests of McCain's appearance began—from the stage —before he uttered one word...

...After a national outcry for Churchill's head, including multiple accusations of plagiarism and academic fraud, a 12-member Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the university decided allegations regarding Churchill's "scholarship" warranted further investigation (they took a pass on looking into his purported Indian ancestry, which has been called into doubt by actual Indians and which he's never bothered to prove...

...She proudly announced that the "committee of organizers of the festivities [in St...

...Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda...

...Sit down...

...There, in St...

...But while out on the hustings, he might want to boost this passage from himself, referred to in the committee report and found in his own feel-good book, Since Predator Came: Notes from the Struggle for American Indian Liberation: "Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism...

...They will now consider the findings and make recommendations to an interim provost and Arts and Sciences dean, and if any actual discipline is ever meted out, Churchill may then elect to pursue a hearing before the Committee on Privilege and Tenure, who will then make their recommendations to the Interim Committee for Jumping Down, Turning Around, and Picking a Bale of Cotton...

...When McCain said that whatever our views of the Iraq war we should respect those who have sacrificed in that war, his words were greeted with hissing and shouting...

...And even then, it would require further review...

...In summation, Churchill, in the eyes of the committee, is guilty of just about everything besides clubbing baby seals with furry puppies...

...The New School boasts on its website that it "is a legendary, progressive university," which prepares and inspires its students to "bring actual, positive change to the world...

...Denis, one of the focal points of last year's immigrant riots, hundreds of Mumia's supporters gathered on April 29 to celebrate the dedication of Rue Mumia Abu-Jamal...

...Did we mention that the theme of McCain's speech was civility...

...More McCain: "When I was a young man, I thought glory was the highest value...

...When the cops arrested Mumia, his gun held five spent shell casings, and in his chest was a bullet from Officer Faulkner's weapon...

...Mumia, Dearest, cont...

...When the former P.O.W...

...Last week, a university investigative committee basically reached the same conclusion as Neconie...

...The only disputed fact is whether Mumia screamed upon his arrival at the hospital—as a security guard testified at the trial—"I shot that motherf—, and I hope he dies...

...Wright, whose father, like Mumia, was made an honorary citizen of Paris, has led a weekly protest there for the last decade "to picket for freedom for Mumia, our Mandela...

...The investigative committee's 124-page report comes complete with turgid asides on the "standards" of ethnic studies scholarship, and lots of tut-tut-ting about the evil, headline-hungry media running roughshod over people's scholarly reputations (never mind that outlets like the Rocky Mountain News took only a few weeks to do what took the university over a year...

...Neconie said that among his set, Churchill, a faux-Indian, faux-scholar, and faux-just-about-everything-else, had picked up the Indian name "Walking Eagle," since "a walking eagle is so full of s— that it can no longer fly...

...That, and heckle speakers they disagree with...

...Apparently forgetting the nearly 3,000 people killed five years ago just blocks from the New School campus, she offered this brilliant nugget: "We have nothing to fear from anyone on this living planet...

...The Scrapbook realizes that Churchill is accustomed to stealing from others...

...According to Lowry's account, the students groaned and someone shouted: "It's not about you...

...Civility, New School Style_ Fresh from his recent speech at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, Senator John McCain gave the commencement address last Friday at the New School in New York City, at the invitation of his former Senate colleague Bob Kerrey, now president of the New School...

...These are the facts of the case, and all four witnesses to the crime testified that it was Mumia who shot Officer Faulkner...

...Despite all this (or perhaps because of it), Mumia has become an object of devotion for Amerika-hating leftists of all stripes in the last 20 years...

...Youth do not all burn cars in the French suburbs, that is a myth...

...When he shared a personal story, a student yelled: "It's about my life, not yours...

...Present at the ceremony, in addition to the town's mayor, was Ramona Africa, the sole survivor of the bombing of the MOVE compound in Philadelphia in 1985...

...A student speaker who preceded McCain attacked him (preemptively) for speaking at Liberty University and for supporting preemptive war...

...Lest you wonder how these two find the time, what with all the cars to burn, she assures us that, "No...

...The newly built street runs through the town's "human rights district," which also features a stadium named after Nelson Mandela...

...The student decried the selection of McCain as the commencement speaker, noting that he doesn't represent the values of the school...

...According to National Review editor Rich Lowry, who attended the speech, when McCain told the students that the Iraq war was not fought for cheap oil, one student shouted: "You're full of it...

...It's been more than four years since The Scrapbook last treated our readers to an update on the growing left-wing cult that worships St...

...Denis] is headed by two twenty-year-olds...

...told a story about respecting a friend who had dissented on the Vietnam war, he was booed...

...Some of these kids spend their time celebrating convicted cop killers instead, much to the relief of the local police, we're sure...

...The other two recommend a two-year suspension without pay...

...Julia Wright, the daughter of Native Son author Richard Wright, was also there in her capacity as the Coordinator of the International Committee in Solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal...

...Such are the rhythms of university life, where a professor would practically have to strangle a provost while uttering sexist imprecations to have his tenure revoked...

...Mumia Abu-Jamal, the convicted cop killer on death row for the 1981 shooting of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner...

...Meanwhile, Churchill, who's taken two semesters off from teaching, is writing another book while drawing full salary, and also appears to be mopping up on the lecture circuit...

...The standing committee then appointed an investigative committee, which took several months and nearly 400 man-hours per committee member to write a report, which was kicked back to the standing committee, who have finally released it...

...Of the seven allegations of research misconduct under investigation, the committee found him guilty of falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, failure to comply with established standards regarding author names on publications, and "serious deviation from accepted practices in reporting results from research...

...But while the above-mentioned string still needs to run out, only three of the five committee members think that revocation of tenure and dismissal is appropriate...

...The "Free Mumia" movement has its most ardent following in Europe, which takes us to the suburbs of Paris...