Denver Post: Fired prof takes the stand; Fights to regain his post
Ward Churchill took his fight to regain his professorship to the witness stand Monday afternoon, defending his views on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and asserting that his academic practices were entirely routine.
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The Chronicle: Ward Churchill’s Day in Court Arrives
The trial in Ward Churchill’s lawsuit against the University of Colorado got under way here on Tuesday with lawyers for the opposing sides painting starkly different pictures of both the controversial ethnic-studies professor and the circumstances surrounding his dismissal by the university in 2007.
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USA Today: Ayers: Colo. professor was fired in ‘witch hunt’
DENVER (AP) — William Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical whose past made him a lightning rod in the 2008 presidential campaign, said Thursday that fired Colorado professor Ward Churchill became the victim of a “witch hunt” after comparing Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi.
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