Posted on 09/24/2010 3:32:42 AM PDT by PBRCat
In a very unusual move, University of Illinois trustees Thursday denied giving emeritus status to controversial retired professor William Ayers.
The vote, at a U. of I. board meeting in Urbana, was unanimous and came after a passionate speech by board chair Christopher Kennedy, who invoked the 1968 assassination of his father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in saying that he was voting his conscience.
While trustees regularly vote on emeritus appointments, they rarely comment about them.
But in an emotional statement, Kennedy discussed his reasons for voting against Ayers' request.
"I am guided by my conscience and one which has been formed by a series of experiences, many of which have been shared with the people of our country and mark each of us in a profound way," Kennedy said.
He said he could not confer the title "to a man whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father."
Kennedy was referring to a 1974 book co-authored by Ayers, "Prairie Fire," which was dedicated to a long list of people including Robert Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan and "all political prisoners in the U.S."
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Wow ! a sane Kennedy ... Who knew !
> Wow ! a sane Kennedy ... Who knew !
Don’t get your hopes up.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
And they just don't get it when they send me alumni donation requests, and I return the envelope with a note, "Please get your blood money from Bill Ayers."
BTW, Mr. Kennedy did not condemn Ayers for what he did, just that he dedicated a book to the guy who killed one of the Kennedys. He's probably OK with the rest of William Ayer's past.
He is a renowned domestic terrorist first and an average Marxist professor second.
Nothing controversial about that.
These folks like Ayers keep pushing their their dubious wares because they know there’s no one out there pushing back. This must have been a shock to the system for that small clique , we all know who they are, at every college and university who thought no one knew what they were really up to.
“He is a renowned domestic terrorist first and an average Marxist professor second.”
Don’t forget that this slimeball is also a marvelous writer of fiction. He ghost wrote Obama’s “Dreams” book. He is one hideous and odious figure, but he certainly can write well.
IMO university employees, the ruling class, high ranking government employees, and media employees are facing growing difficulties protecting Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ayers.
The Ayers may be innocent of murder but I'd like to hear a jury say it.
As if that was the only connection-what a joke.
P.S. Love the quotes on "terrorist"
The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus/street revolutionary rabble and their ideological issue arguably are now the Establishment.
They've elected two presidents and virtually control key aspects of our society such as education, the news media, and the entertainment industry.
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Wow, ten posts and no one yet has said, “Schadenfreude.” So I guess I’ll say it.
“controversial!”
A terrorist is controversial!
Personally I take no pleasure in this.. my pleasure will be when they are finally(!) put before a jury. And as I said above.. they just might be innocent, I just want to hear a jury say it.
Yeah, as the years pass the history gets rewritten, it will be more than difficult to convict. Both should be in prison IMO.
Bill Ayers deserves a dark cell and serving of rice once a day for the rest of his life, and little else.
” He is a renowned domestic terrorist first and an average Marxist professor second.
Nothing controversial about that. “
Actually, these days, having “domestic terrorist” on your resume could help you get tenure.
Any sane university would have denied giving an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers a professorship, must less an Emeritus title.
That they would even CONSIDER giving him an Emeritus title and the vote would be this close just shows you how far out of whack our colleges have become.
And these mainstream media type would rather focus on Christine O’Donnell’s high school date.
LoonsToTheLeftOfMe at 10:27 AM September 24, 2010 ..... The Trib writes: Ayers became a controversial figure in Barack Obama's presidential campaign because they worked on a school-reform initiative together, leading opponents to say Obama was linked to a "terrorist."
Okay, this is rich. Ayers became a controversial figure in Obama's campaign when it was revealed that Obama was a close friend of Ayers' for years, had launched his political career in Ayers' living room, and was backed for years by Ayers' father, Thomas Ayers, the wealthy socialist CEO of Commonwealth Edison, who was a huge political power broker in Chicago and gave Obama his sinecure position as head of the the Woods Fund. Obama and Ayers were thick as thieves for many years before Obama ever ran for President. Ayers wasn't "linked" to Obama. He was joined at the hip to him.
Ayres and his wife, Dohrn, were wealthy children of privilege who played at being revolutionaries. When the law caught up to them, their wealthy families lawyered up for them. Ayres escaped prison due to evidence being barred as inadmissible due to the exclusionary rule.
Ayres’ father was the head of Commonwealth Edison, the Chicago electric utility company, and Pops showered money on various local politicians. The allegation is that the faculty posts held by Ayres at UIC and Dohrn at Northwestern (How many law school graduates are permitted to teach law school classes after being denied a law license by the state bar?) were bought and paid for many times over by their rich parents.
Someday, Obama may appoint Ayres to a post in the US Department of Education if the Congress is not in session!
Excellent!
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