"I think of there being two Bill Ayers," [Art professor] Hales said. "It is the second Bill Ayers that was hired by the university. He became a really important voice for social good at the point of education."
Posted on 10/01/2010 4:25:49 AM PDT by Zakeet
University of Illinois at Chicago faculty leaders are weighing whether to ask the board of trustees to reconsider its controversial decision to deny emeritus status to retired professor William Ayers.
It's the latest twist in a showdown 40 years in the making between Ayers, a Vietnam War-era radical who later joined the UIC faculty, and Christopher Kennedy, the university's board chair who was 4 when his father, the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated.
During a passionate speech last week, Kennedy voted against Ayers' appointment, saying he was guided by his conscience and could not support someone who had dedicated a book to the man who assassinated his father. The other trustees, without comment, also voted to deny the title to Ayers, a UIC education professor since 1987.
It is extremely rare for the board to comment on or vote against emeritus appointments. Some UIC faculty members, writing on an internal faculty e-mail listserv, have expressed concerns that the board turned what should have been a routine academic decision into a personal one.
In a proposed resolution, highly-regarded professor Elliott Kaufman suggested that the Faculty Senate ask the board to reconsider its decision, one he said was a conflict-of-interest and "inappropriately influenced by personal and political comments."
He urged board members to "adhere to the ethical constraints that normally govern their meetings."
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"I think of there being two Bill Ayers," [Art professor] Hales said. "It is the second Bill Ayers that was hired by the university. He became a really important voice for social good at the point of education."
Controversial descision?
Sounds like Ayers went crying to his university cronies who are about to find out how stubborn those pesky Kennedys can be.
Sure, this school is already disgraced having employed this vile piece of crap to indoctrinate students. It is quite appropriate that Billy receive further honorary exalted status from this discredited, contemptible outfit.
“Hales said. “It is the second Bill Ayers that was hired by the university. He became a really important voice for social good at the point of education.”
So, the university faculty wants to view this subversive professor as having a split personality? A good Ayers, and a bad one? How ridiculous. This man should never have been hired as a teacher in the first place. Imagine your child being instructed by a person who thinks terrorists are heroes? Why did he get a job teaching?? He should have paid for his violent behavior by washing dishes the rest of his life, not sitting around the faculty lounge with dumb kids as groupies. Sickening.
I think its good that leftist ideals are coming into conflict. Kennedy made a choice and it was a good choice.
Well they're both malicious and destructive enemies of the US.
He's admitted his guilt. He must have an unpaid parking ticket or something. Pick him up.
“He became a really important voice for social good at the point of education.”
Well, of course...an important voice for the indoctrination
of American youths into the glorious world of Marxist/Leninist ideology.
Whats the big deal over Ayers? We already have a
Communist for president.
While we are at it, lets recycle that old hammer and sickle.
I think the Russians have discarded it.
Ayers is learning that your past CAN come back and bite you in the @ss, just like it does for all us little people every day.
Perhaps this argument would have merit if Prof. Ayers had ever publicly expressed regret for the actions of the first Bill Ayers. Rather than apologizing and asking the forgiveness of those he wronged, including Mr. Kennedy, he stated publicly in that famous September 10, 2001 New York Times article that the only regret he had about his “anti-war” activities and life as an underground Weatherman terrorist was they he hadn't bombed and maimed well enough. So much for the second Bill Ayers.
And Prof. Hales does his employer no service with his awkward “I think of there being two Bill Ayers” construction. What sort of Ph.D. speaks so ungrammatically? Clearly, UIC is a disgrace to its alumni and a bottomless hole for the taxpayers of the state of Illinois.
That will work.....
If the faculty can’t figure out that Ayers is a criminal and a hater of this society, the people of Illinois shouldn’t be compelled to pay for this university.
The Trustees made the decision, as they are authorized to. I think it’s time professors stopped telling us what to do.
The two-person concept refers to the likes of P.J. O’Rourke, a radical leftist in the 60s who realized his mistake and did an about-face. Ayers is unapologetic about his past radicalism, except that he thinks he didn’t go far enough. There is only one Bill Ayers.
Kennedy should quit if the decision is reversed.
BTTT
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