Churchill Must Go

The Rocky Mountain News editorial page congratulates the University of Colorado's review committee for determining that there is merit to charges of academic misconduct against Ward Churchill, although they snicker at the four months required to reach that conclusion. Now, the University begins step two of the incredibly protracted process of the investigation.
The Rocky Mountain News offers the university its services and suggests a remedy.

"This ludicrously protracted process could be compressed, by the way, if the committees would simply review a series of articles published in this newspaper in early June. There investigators will discover chapter and verse on how Churchill gradually appropriated a 1972 environmental document as his own, how he invented facts surrounding the 1836 epidemic among the Mandan Indians, how he misrepresented the Dawes Act, and how he reproduced as his own parts of a 1992 essay by Professor Fay Cohen - just to mention four examples of academic misconduct.

By all means, let the academics double-check the research. It's sound, and it points in but one direction.

Churchill must go."