No longer in question

This post detailed how Ward Churchill made tenure at the University of Colorado based on a single year of teaching as an adjunct.  His quick tenure was based on CU's desire to enhance diversity by keeping a Native American.  The decision, though about an academic appointment, didn't have anything to do with academics.

Then, it turned out that there was some uncertainty about his ethnicity.  Though he had presented himself in a way that made people assume he was a Native American, AIM voiced some doubts.

There are no more doubts: 

Churchill did address the issue of his ethnicity, admitting that he is not Native American. . . . 'Let's cut to the chase; I am not,' he said.  [via here]

Oops.  It's one thing to find out someone lied on their resume about publishing an article -- you can fire them pretty cleanly by saying that was relevant to the hiring and it turned out to be false.  In this case, his supposed ethnicity was not an explicit reason for giving him a tenured academic position; it's hard to now make it a reason for firing him -- it would be discrimination to fire someone solely because of their ethnicity.

UPDATE:  It's back in play.  Is it that hard to trace geneology?