Forbidden Education & the Rise of Neo-McCarthyism: Bill Ayers & Ward Churchill in Boulder, 3/5

[intheflow]

Forbidden Education and the Rise of Neo-McCarthyism
A lecture by Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Glenn Miller Ballroom, University Memorial Center, CU campus. 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder, CO

Hosts: CU Students for True Academic Freedom; CU Student Environmental Action Coalition; 180 Degree Shift at the 11th Hour

Description

Former radical activist and current University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bill Ayers, and fired University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill speak about academic freedom.

Churchill has sued the University over his dismissal. That suit goes to trial just four days later, on March 9.

Cost: The event is free for CU students. Tickets are $5 in advance for community members, and there will be a $6 to $10 sliding scale at the door. Tickets are available at the UMC Connection, local King Soopers outlets and TicketsWest.com. Organizers says free tickets also are available to "activist community members" who e-mail [e-mail]


www.180degreeshift.org



*Cross-posted in the Colorado forum.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. In the case of Churchill, I'd worry about the academic integrity before the academic freedom

[intheflow]

2. I know Churchill.

His academic integrity is in tact, and always has been. His firing and the hype around it was just that--hype and political payback for suggesting some people who worked in the WTC were like "little Eichmanns."

[ProgressiveProfessor]

3. Then why didn't the Academic Senate (or equiv) support him? The Eichmanns comment was not enough

Some of the plagiarism evidence was damning, was it false? I have never seen an adequate defense for it.