[Interesting Times]

Here's the schedule of the African and African-American Studies at Duke, which could easily be subtitled "Working Ourselves Into a Frenzy of Racial Resentment and Animosity."

Note the entry for March 3:

Laura Whitehorn spent more than 14 years in federal prison for her role in planting a bomb in the U.S. Capitol building in 1983, in protest of the U.S. invasion of Grenada.

They knew she had bombed the Capitol when they invited her.

The great tradition of classical Western education slouches on...

[Interesting Times]

Here's how the Duke Women's Studies Department bills her, from their Calendar of Events:

3 Laura Whitehorn, revolutionary anti-imperialist currently working with POZ Magazine, a national monthly for the communities affected by HIV. Teaching Race, Teaching Gender Speakers Series is sponsored by the African and African American Studies Program at Duke University with additional support from the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, The Duke University Women's Studies Program, the Franklin Humanities Institute's Mellon Project "Making the Humanities Central" and the Duke Women's Center. For more information about the Speakers Series or the seminar, Teaching Race, Teaching Gender (AAAS 299S, WST 210.02, SOC 299S), please contact Professor Becky Thompson at 684-3987 or bthomp@duke.edu. John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240, 4:00 PM

Interestingly, a search of the Duke web site doesn't turn up the bio quoted in Chuck Muth's email, which is identical to the one used by the African and African-American folks, except that Duke deleted the Capitol bombing reference. It would seem that whoever authorized that version has no problem with a domestic terrorist speaking at Duke, but thought it might be prudent to skip over that particular point.