This is Ward Churchill holding an assault
rifle. Churchill, a tenured professor and
department head, was recently fired by
the University of Colorado over allegations
of misrepresentation. In a post yesterday
we criticized the university for hiring him
in the first place and linked this scandal to
others there as evincing what in the sports
field would be termed a "lack of institutional
control."
The State of Colorado will be forever linked
with the Columbine High School massacre.
Now we have a militarist tenured professor
and department head at the state's flagship
university posing with an assault rifle wearing
a beret and dressed in fatigues. In yesterday's
post we did not criticize the university for hiring
a trans-sexual. Universities should be tolerant,
we said. But they must not be ignorant. Trans-
sexuality can be seen as a sign of psychological
unbalance. Trans-sexuality together with a fetish
for assault rifles are surely signs of a potentially
dangerous individual who the university might
not want holding forth in front of a "captive"
audience of students.
What if anything did the university admini-
strators do about Prof. Churchill when they
saw this photograph? They did see this
photograph didn't they?
"WARD CHURCHILL"
