“I want to be clear,” said Tom Mayer, a CU-Boulder sociology professor. “This is a political fight with academic camoflage. “I believe the people who voted (to dismiss Churchill) are the same people who would have voted against Socrates, Galilleo … and anyone else wth an unpopular point of view.”
Lane said the only surprise of the afternoon was Regent Cindy Carlisle’s lone dissenting vote against the motion to fire Churchill.