Posted on 03/27/2009 11:08:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Students hope to host William Ayers off-campus
Boston College yesterday abruptly withdrew two student groups’ invitation to former radical William Ayers to speak on campus Monday.
A BC spokesman said he was unaware of the plan for the controversial figure to speak on campus until contacted by the Herald yesterday afternoon. But students last night were scrambling to hold the speech off-campus.
“After meetings between administrators and students, the decision was made to rescind the invitation,” spokesman Jack Dunn said. Dunn declined to say why, adding only, “We feel the appropriate decision has been reached.”
Dunn, director of public affairs, indicated he was unaware that Ayers had been invited to BC when first contacted by the Herald yesterday. Student organizers who had confirmed the speaking engagement in the afternoon called back shortly afterward to report it was canceled.
Ayers was a founding member of the violent radical-left anti-war group the Weather Underground, which was blamed for a series of bombings that killed several people. Ayers, though a fugitive for several years, was not directly implicated in those attacks. Federal riot and bombing conspiracy charges against him where later dropped, The New York Times [NYT] has reported.
Ayers figured in the 2008 presidential campaign as conservatives criticized Barack Obama for his association with the former radical.
Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, was due to speak at Boston College on education reform and civic engagement at the invitation of Americans for Informed Democracy and the College Democrats. Ayers could not be reached last night, but before the decision was announced, he said: “This isn’t Saudi Arabia or Cuba. Speech is something we believe in in a democracy.”
The event was to be co-sponsored by Boston College’s Clough Center for the Study of Constititutional Democracy, whose director could not be reached.
But student organizers reached last night said they want to try to hold the speech off-campus.
“All of us who have put a lot of hard work into planning and defending this event are really disappointed because we had hoped this would be an open academic forum for someone who’s widely respected,” said College Democrats member Melissa Roberts, 21. “We’re going to make sure this respected academic gets heard.”
Now if Notre Dame could just do that with Obortion Obama!
Shooooot....maybe he will reveal his plan that he has gone over with TOTUS for years. Let him talk.
"Respected academic" = domestic terrorist.
Her idol Bill Ayers believes that is the only way to deal with us.
These people are all as evil as hell, but the leadership at Boston College did the right thing! Good for them!
How the &%$#@ did he get the invite? What’s wrong with these institutions of “higher learning”?
Thank you Boston College. I remember the day Officer Walter Schroeder was gunned down by a cohort of the respected academic - and I guess a lot of other Bostonians do too. Ayers was no kid when he was running around as a self-important revolutionary. And he only wishes he had done more. Egads!
Miss Roberts, in case you don’t know (and if you did, perhaps you wouldn’t care) the “wife” of this “respected academic” is one Bernadine Dohrn, who was a publicly professed admirer of mass murderer Charles Manson. I’ll leave it to you as a student to look up a bit more about the background of this individual.
Ayers: “This isn’t Saudi Arabia or Cuba. Speech is something we believe in in a democracy.”
No kidding? Hey *hole, we don’t have to give you a soapbox for it, you murderous scum.
You should post a link to your source.
Got a link?
A few are wising up to the fact the radicals have taken over. Now to stand together and remove the radicals from office beginning in each local election, and in 2010 within each congressional district.
Small victory but we’ll take it :-)
The BC invite was supposed to be hush-hush but somebody dropped a dime on them by calling WTTK FM yesterday afternoon and talk host Michael Graham tried to get BC to admit it.
Is Boston College a Catholic one?
From Graham’s blog http://www.michaelgraham.com
(Posted before the appearance was scrubbed, at least ON
campus):
>>Here’s more information about the Ayers visit. (scroll down) Note who’s sponsoring his BC appearance:
——(Co-sponsored with the Lynch School of Education Dean for Undergraduates, the AHANA Leadership Council, The Americans for Informed Democracy, and the College Democrats.) [emphasis added]
>>How ironic that Ayers’ likely route to BC will take him right through Brighton, where members of his Weather Underground murdered Officer Walter Schroeder of the BPD. It won’t bother Ayers. As he’s said repeatedly, he has no regrets over his terrorist past In fact, he wishes he’d blown more stuff up.
From Graham’s fellow WTKK 96.9 talk host Michelle McPhee
http://www.metro.us/us/article/2008/05/05/04/3121-72/index.xml
(May of ‘08):
>>Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis calls Barack Obama’s connection to William Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist who was part of the Weather Underground — an anti-war group that planted bombs and killed cops — “troubling.” I say it is outrageous.
The Weather Underground did damage right here in Boston. On Sept. 23, 1970, BPD Officer Walter Schroeder was gunned down outside a Brighton bank that had just been robbed by five members of the Weather Underground. One of the terrorists opened fire on the cop. With bullets from a machine gun the group ripped off from a National Guard armory in Newburyport just weeks earlier, Schroeder was shot in the back and killed.
Schroeder left behind a wife and nine children, aged 17, 15, 13, 10, 9, 7, 6, 2 and 11 months. The gunman, William “Lefty” Gilday, was captured along with three accomplices. The armed getaway driver, Katherine Powers, fled and remained on the lam for 23 years. When she was finally caught, Powers was treated with the same despicable reverence that Obama’s friend Ayers has been given by the media. Like Ayers, Powers was profiled as a hapless revolutionary caught up in the tumult of the Vietnam War rather than what she truly is: a cop-killing lowlife.
Excellent news.
Good for Boston College!
Boston Herald, 05/21/06, Marie Szaniszlo
More than 200 faculty members have signed a letter of opposition to her. Scores of students plan to protest. And dozens of other demonstrators are expected to attend.
All of this and more await Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at Boston College tomorrow, when she is due to receive an honorary doctor of laws degree and give what is shaping up to be this year’s most controversial commencement address.
But anyone expecting Rice to be shouted down may be disappointed.
“I think people have a right to demonstrate as long as they do it in a respectful way,” said senior Amanda Sindel-Keswick, 22.
Students who plan to stand in protest during Rice’s speech plan to sit together so as not to block other people’s views, according to the college’s newspaper. And those who don’t want to draw attention to themselves by standing plan to wear armbands reading “No honorary degree” or “Not in my name.”
“I don’t agree with what she’s done with her power,” said senior Suzanne Dupre, 21. “I just wouldn’t want to see anything happen that would dampen the day.”
Not everyone is upset to have the world’s most powerful woman speaking at their school.
“Whether you agree with her political decisions or not, you have to recognize this is a coup for BC, bringing in someone this high-profile,” said senior Roger Nani, 21. “This is a good PR move.”
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Professor quits because of Condi:
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