Embattled Colorado Professor: Ethnicity Investigation Dropped by University

Prepare yourselves for a whitewash of epic proportions.

DENVER (AP) - The University of Colorado has dropped its investigation into the American Indian heritage of the professor who came under fire for likening Sept. 11 victims to an infamous Nazi, the professor himself says.

A letter from the university dated Friday said a faculty panel decided to drop the matter, Ward Churchill said Monday.

"There's no basis to proceed," Churchill quoted the letter as saying, later adding: "It should have never been an issue".

"It can be taken as that 'we're not functioning as boards of racial purity with a board of white guys that sit around and decide who's an Indian and who's not.'"

University spokeswoman Pauline Hale said the panel's work is confidential and declined to comment on the story, first reported by KUSA-TV. The subcommittee of the Standing Committee on Research Misconduct was close to finishing its work, Hale said.

Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies, wrote an essay shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks comparing some World Trade Center victims to Adolf Eichmann, one of the Nazis who orchestrated the Holocaust. The essay drew scant attention until earlier this year, when Churchill was invited to speak at a college in upstate New York.

So fraud to obtain position is "not an issue" hmmmmmm. Wonder how the thousands of people who have been excluded from a job because of ethnicity feel about that.