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In the coming weeks, the University of Colorado\u2019s Board of Regents will vote on whether or not to dismiss Professor Ward Churchill. Ever since the tenured ethnic studies professor published an essay entitled \u201cSome People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,\u201d he became the center of a firestorm. In his essay, Churchill likened technocrats working at the World Trade Center on 9\/11 to \u201clittle Eichmanns.\u201d Unable to fire Professor Churchill for his statements, an investigative committee was appointed by the University of Colorado to determine the validity of his scholarship. After an internal faculty appeal, four charges of research misconduct have been presented against Professor Churchill. Academics and activists have decried the investigation as a politically motivated attack on academic freedom. If the CU Board of Regents votes for dismissal, critics fear that a dangerous precedent will be set. <\/p>\n For more information, visit www.cu.edu<\/a>, or www.wardchurchill.net<\/a>. | the entire program GUEST: Natsu Taylor Saito, Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law In the coming weeks, the University of Colorado\u2019s Board of Regents will vote on whether or not to dismiss Professor Ward Churchill. Ever since the tenured ethnic studies professor published an essay entitled \u201cSome People Push Back: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ward](\"http:\/\/www.pubtheo.com\/images\/churchill-ward.jpg\")
<\/a>GUEST: Natsu Taylor Saito, Professor of Law at Georgia State University College of Law<\/em><\/p>\n
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\nNOTE: We discovered after the interview that Prof. Natsu Saito is married to Ward Churchill. We apologize for not disclosing this fact on the air. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"