"Professor X" has an update on the PC stench at IUPUI

Professor X, compelled to write under a pseudonym in these politically-correct times, gives an update on the story of yet another non-tenured professor being persecuted by far-left academia.

That professor is Operation Desert Storm veteran and Libertarian William Bradford of Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis--IUPUI for short, but generally referred to as Oohie-Poohie by students and faculty there. No, I didn't make that up.

From Professor X in today's Frontpage Magazine:

This spring William Bradford, an untenured associate professor on the law faculty at Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis (IUPUI), received a poor vote from his colleagues both on a straw vote for his eventual tenure, and even on a vote simply to retain him as an untenured associate professor for the next three years. This vote occurred despite the fact that Bradford has an outstanding teaching record (including a teaching award from the law students), an excellent record of service, and a simply stunning record of publication, including a book, a forthcoming book, and 21 articles in law reviews or in books. Usually a record such as this would be enough to assure someone at IU-Indy School of Law not merely tenure but a tenured full professorship.

Indeed, one of Bradford's colleagues, with a very similar record of publication, and who came to IU-Indy School of Law in the same semester as Bradford, has just received not merely promotion to tenure as an associate professor but promotion to a tenured full professorship. Bradford believes that what happened in his case was primarily his refusal last winter to sign a petition which circulated in the law school-a petition which supported Ward Churchill, the Professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado who described the victims of 9/11 as "little Eichmanns" who deserved what they got. The petition was circulated by Florence Roisman, who is a powerful and well-connected full professor holding a prestigious Chair in the law school.

A very interesting side note is this: Professor Bradford, unlike Ward Churchill, actually is a Native American.

Indiana State Representative Jeffrey Thompson has taken up Bradford's cause, but the battle is not over yet.

As I noted before, Oohie, Poohie, you stink, stank, stunk!