Ward Churchill Investigation

Ward Churchill, University of Colorado, Boulder professor who had compared 9/11 victims to Nazis calling them "Little Eichmann's" in an essay, is being investigating for charges of plagiarism and charges of fraudulent Indian geneological claims.

Read;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050517/ap_on_re_us/embattled_professor
The article quotes Churchill's attorney, David Lane (segment of article);

In his response to the plagiarism allegations, Lane said Churchill in one instance simply took articles written by other people and put them together for a chapter of one book, which Churchill did not take credit for.

"His name does not appear as the author of the piece. He was asked to edit it, and he did. He checked for typos, punctuation, grammar, those type of things. He never claims himself as the author," Lane said. "That is not plagiarism."

I would like to see the articles or chapters for myself. From what I remember in college, if we used 4 or more consecutive words from another work and used it as our own, it could be considered a plagarized piece. This may just be a plagarism rule Purdue University laid down for our research papers and homework. However I believe the true definition of plagarism goes much further. It is not just the words used, but the thoughts and ideas of someone else you are trying to pass off as your own.

There is some grey area in this and the committee at CU investigating this has some proving to do for charges to Professor Churchill.

MoreThanCorn is of the opinion, if an article is written with the thoughts of someone else included, they must be cited and given credit on the same page or within the same work. The credit must be very deliberate. Simply leaving out the names from which ideas are gathered and collaging the ideas into one work would be plagiarism by default.

There is another copyright issue in which Professor Churchill is involved;

Read;
http://news4colorado.com/topstories/local_story_055200531.html and also view the CBS4 Denver investigation and report on video. Impressive research by Journalist Raj Chohan.

Paintings Mr Churchill sold as his own are mirror images of deceased artist Thomas E. Mails.
Read the articles and keep your eyes/ears open, when you have enough evidence to confirm or refute, decide for yourself.