Northwestern Alumni Withhold Money (over terrorist on faculty)

Washington Post ^ | Novermber 1, 2001 | Don Babwin

[jalisco555]

CHICAGO

[jalisco555]

Calling all Northwestern alums.

[white trash redneck]

Good for them. It's about time that alumni started holding universities accountable for their wackiness.

[I_Publius]

Would someone save me some work and tell me who and what the Weathermen are or were? Thank you,

[jalisco555]

Would someone save me some work and tell me who and what the Weathermen are or were? Thank you,

They were a breakaway group from the old Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a 60's radical group. The Weathermen decided that the way to cause the Revolution was to murder policemen, bomb buildings and in general strike fear in the society. The survivors are now in their 50's and some are in positions of prominence, like the focus of this article.

[I_Publius]

Oh...that's so nice. I'm glad we're a tolerant society. I'm sure they would never condone such acts today, right? ;)

[cajungirl]

The most radical of the student radicals of the sixties who began opposing the VN war and ended up just killing cops, robbing banks. They were the militant wing of one of those protest groups whose name I have misplaced in my head at this time, it will filter out later. These were bad, bad folks, anarchists, who had a following of sorts who idolized them.They were not admirable. Just the children of pampered childhoods who were antiestablishment types. Do a google search, interesting reading and interesting times.

[cajungirl]

Thanks,,it was the SDS. That seems so long ago.

[DebtsPaid]

http://www.geocities.com/redencyclopedia/past.htm WEATHER UNDERGROUND: Group founded in 1969 at Chicago by a group of former members of Students for a Democratic Society who opposed the SDS's takeover by the Maoist Progressive Labor Party. The name came from a policy statement by founding members of the WU: "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." This line from a Bob Dylan song pointed out their anger against the PLP, and they were named the "Weathermen" after this quote. The Weathermen were quoted as saying, "The main struggle going on in the world today is between US imperialism and the national liberation struggles against it." The WU supported the efforts of the Black Panther Party to create African-American self-determination. After Bernadine Dohrn led the Weathermen faction out of the SDS, they held a "national war council" in Cleveland, officially declaring a secret struggle of guerrilla warfare against the American government. By 1970, due to their bombings and terrorist acts, the Weathermen were reduced to a hard cadre of militant terrorists. Their main heroes were Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh, and Mao Zedong. Due to their seemingly random acts of violence and the threat they made against President Gerald Ford, the group quickly lost any following outside of their small cadre. If the WU still exists, its members have not committed public acts of any sort (even terrorism) in decades.

[laconic]

Residents of Illinois: your tax money is going to support Bernadine Dohrn's bum of a "husband" who is employed as "Distinguished" Professor of Education at the University of Illinois in Chicago. A NY Times loving profile of this creep named Bill Ayers (printed Sept. 11th of all things), noted how proud he remains of having bombed the Pentagon while he was a member of the Weather Underground. Call your legislators and demand that they cut the budget of this miserable institution that you help pay for.

[DebtsPaid]

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[Vladiator]

As a Wildcat Alum, I have not given them any money since they started winning football games. It's disgusting to see how they let the old traditions go by the wayside, just in the name of college sports!

[DebtsPaid]

I remember the SDS at the University of Virginia, while I was in ROTC led by a dork named David Nolan from Massachusetts or Connecticut. He wasn't really at UVA to get an education, he was there to foment rebellion.

[1rudeboy]

My favorite was when Northwestern named its football stadium after a donor, despite the fact that according to its own bylaws, the name was not allowed to change.

[dakine]

It's disgusting to see how they let the old traditions go by the wayside

You tell 'em!, I liked the old 70-7 poundings Michigan use to give 'em... Northwestern was everyone's Homecoming game..

[Non-Sequitur]

They won't be getting any more of mine.

[Non-Sequitur]

For those who are confused by this, NU plays it's football games in Dyche Stadium. It's pronounced just how it looks.

[Thebaddog]

Corectomundo as regards to her radical husband. William Ayers was profiled in the Chicago Tribune the weekend after the 9/11 attack. You should also heap some ire at the Tribune. They whitewashed his radical past and tried to make light of the Weathermen as if nobody was ever killed by their terrorist actions.

[SpaceBar]

I don't blame them for withholding monkey. After I saw the Hot Zone, I swore I would never touch one of those disgusting furry... wait, hang on, damn, I should read the headlines more carefully.

[oldironsides]

Did I read that Sidney Bleumanthal was an old SDS member? I wish I could remember where I read it.

[Campion]

This Northwestern alum stopped giving money to NU two years ago.

My reasons? Simple:

• Northwestern has not disassociated itself from Garry Wills' vicious anti-Catholic hitpiece, Papal Sins. The book is trash, more than one scholar has noted that it's trash. Back in the 1980's, NU had an electrical engineering professor named Arthur Butz, who was one of the original Holocaust deniers. (He wrote a book expounding his views called The Hoax of the Twentieth Century.)

  The University went way out of its way to make it clear that they didn't endorse Butz's views, in order not to alienate Jewish students, parents, alums, etc. Saying that the Holocaust didn't take place is a lie. Saying that Pope Pius XII was an accomplice to the Holocaust, as Wills' book does, is also a lie, but the University evidently doesn't care as strongly about whether or not they offend Catholic students, parents, and alums.

• This past spring, the head of NOW (name escapes me at the moment) gave a public talk on campus. Prolife hero Joe Scheidler and friends showed up to peacefully protest outside. For this, they were called "terrorist" (?!?) by the campus cops. Northwestern filed a complaint of criminal trespass (?!?), which was laughed out of court.

Since Northwestern evidently feels that my views are "anti-Semitic" and "terrorist" (i.e., I'm a faithful Roman Catholic), they don't need any of my anti-Semitic, terrorist money.

However, I'll die Purple. The fans of other Big Ten schools who long for the "good old days" [sic] when they could murder us 70-7 can kiss my royal Wildcat ... [cough]. ;-)

As for that Michigan fan above ... does the name "Andrea Dworkin" mean anything to you? (I believe that's the right name ... the nutcase at UofM Law School who thinks that all heterosexual sex is rape ... the marital kind included?)