Take this from someone who attended CU and even took a class from Ward back in 2002. The man really doesn't stand for anything. Another student described him best in a local newspaper editorial stating that he fetishizes his own radicalism. Trust me, the back lash he has recieved may not be the most pleasant and may have cost him his position and department chair, but he is most assuredly getting off on all the controversy he has spawned.
I agree with most people that it would be in CU's best interest to remove Ward soon and as quietly as possible. He has no place teaching there, mainly because he does not teach. At CU he has found a place where he can preach his ideas to the Boulder culture (Boulder is described in Colorado as 20 square miles surrounded by reality) and get paid to do it. The real danger is that he is a remarkably charismatic speaker, and the many of the students at CU are ripe to be lost in his words.
Really, the most damaging thing that CU, or America, could do this man is the one thing most of us don't want to do. If he were to be fired, he would become the martyr for free speech and CU would have even more problems with student protest every damn day (really it would be their excuse to skip class and play frisbee). Ward would go on a national tour of protesting and advocating free speech. If Americans really wanted to destroy the man, everyone needs to stand up and say in a unified voice "your thoughts and ideas are so insignificant they aren't even worth humoring." Then if everyone ignored him for the next few years, and people stopped attending his classes he would most likely slip away into some dark hole.
He craves the controversy and attention surrounding him...remove that and you destroy his will.
