Fire the Guys Who Hired Him?

The administrators who greased the skids to bring Ward Churchill to the University of Colorado have largely escaped criticism in yesterday's report.

If Ward Churchill deserves to be fired, or given time off without pay, what should happen to the CU administrators who hired and promoted him?

CU hired Churchill long before he wrote about "little Eichmanns," but he never owed his job to much more than an ability to provoke.

Even the subcommittee calling for his paycheck recognized that.

"We believe that the University of Colorado may have made the extraordinary decision to hire Professor Churchill, a charismatic public intellectual with no doctorate and no history of regular faculty membership at a university, to a tenured position without any probationary period in part because at that moment in the institution's history, it desired the favorable attention his notoriety and following were expected to bring."

Live by polemics, die by them.