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Author of September 11 essay is sacked July 26, 2007 BOULDER: The University of Colorado has fired an academic whose comparison of victims of the September 11 attacks to Nazis triggered a debate over free speech and scholarship in the US. The university insisted its decision was unrelated to an essay written by Ward Churchill in 2001 that called workers in the World Trade Centre "little Eichmanns", a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who was in charge of sending Jews to death camps. They said he was fired because he had committed plagiarism and fraudulent research in other writings. "I'm not sure we had much of a choice," said the president of the university, Hank Brown. "The integrity of our research is an integral part of our university." Professor Churchill, 59, and his backers argued the dismissal was motivated by his leftist views, and that it would keep other academics from discussing unpopular subjects. "This is a political firing with academic camouflage," said Tom Mayer, who teaches sociology at the university. The controversy began in 2005, when Professor Churchill was invited to speak at Hamilton College in New York. Critics seized on an essay he wrote after the September 11 attacks arguing that workers in the World Trade Centre were "a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire" and comparing them to the Nazi leader who carried out superiors' orders for genocide. Professor Churchill was attacked on internet forums and on television, and his speech was cancelled. The university apologised for the essay and the then governor of Colorado called for him to be fired. He survived, but he did step down as chairman of the university's ethnic studies department. The school then opened an investigation into allegations that Professor Churchill's writings on genocide of American Indians involved research fraud. Last year, a panel found several problems in his writings, and its findings were accepted by two other faculty panels. Last month, the university recommended his dismissal. The professor has vowed to fight to regain his position. His lawyer, David Lane, said he would file a lawsuit this week challenging the dismissal as a violation of the First Amendment. The message of the university's action, he said, "is there will be a payback for free speech". Los Angeles Times --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

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