Ward Churchill vs. Dr. Thomas Klocek

A comparison contrast essay is one of the things you have to know how to write to get a college degree. This is an essay where the writer takes two subjects and compares what is similar with the two subjects while contrasting the differences to come up with a meaningful explanation. The two subjects I want to examine are Ward Churchill and Dr. Thomas Klocek.
Both of them are college professors. Both are mired in what has been described as a “free Speech” issue. While Ward Churchill is a tenured Professor at University of Colorado, Dr. Thomas Klocek has taught at De Paul’s Chicago University for 15 years.
They both are considered to be popular teachers with full classes. Both of their predicaments were caused by speech that has been attributed to each professor.
It was the speech that was attributed to each professor that contrasts start to emerge. Ward Churchill called the victims of 9-11 “Little Eichmanns,” this is not alleged but verified through the professor’s own writings. On the other hand Dr. Thomas Klocek’s utterances are only alleged, and are disputed. The folks that Dr. Klocek offended are the
members of two student groups, Students for Justice in Palestine and United Muslims Moving Ahead, with whom the Doctor had a twenty minute debate with. Ward Churchill’s public pronouncements offended a majority of the public while Dr. Klocek’s private debate offended the people he was debating with. An honest difference of opinion between debaters’ verses public speeches is a sharp contrast.
Dr. Klocek does not have any of the issues of integrity that have been hounding Ward Churchill. Amid charges of plagiarizing others works, falsifying his own ethnicity,
and threatening those that dare to stand up to him, Churchill has retained his job. Dr. Klocek has not been so fortunate having been suspended with pay for autumn semester and suspended with-out pay for the winter semester.
The overall contrast is why Ward Churchill’s speech is considered free speech and Dr. Klocek’s speech is not afforded the same 1st Amendment protection. Apparently some speech is more equal than other speech.