Two months later, MSUM still facing fallout from Ayers visit (Hussein's domestic terrorist pal)

In Forum ^ | 4/20/13 | Ryan Johnson

[Libloather]

MOORHEAD – Minnesota State University Moorhead is stepping up security as fallout builds two months after a controversial guest speaker visited campus in February.

President Edna Szymanski said the university has lost a “significant amount” of donor money since William Ayers was there for a Feb. 26 speech and three days of meetings with faculty and students on how to incorporate social justice issues into curricula.

But she said the tone of recent feedback turned from alumni threats of cutting off funding to “institutional and personal threats” after conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh mentioned the visit last week while discussing how Ayers “got his start” in the same way as the Boston Marathon bombers.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Not to worry - I’m sure some stimulus dollars or federal educational grant money will be in the mail shortly to make up for whatever shortfall occurred.

[Afterguard]

My Alma Mater fourty-some years ago. I’ve sent the school a regular annual stipend for years. When I heard about it I wrote them I was finished donating but it didn’t matter. Not another dime. Not one until the current administration is flushed.

[FreeAtlanta]

Well he writes better than the “president”, seeing how he wrote that pathetic pos’s autobiography.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sides are being chosen, and the university is on the losing side.

They think they're on the winning side.

[Afterguard]

That would be forty-some years ago... Dang autocorrect. Not a reflection on the schools education, which was actually quite good then. LOL

[bgill]

“We’ll be having conversations about how we can at least be more aware of these things and that we can be more mindful about how the decisions we’re making impact our students in particular, because that’s the negative fallout here in the end,” he said.

Blah, blah, blah. Y'all got caught inviting a terrorist to the school and stopped the flow of $$$$$. Slap down.

[dennisw]

All I care about is how much was Bill Ayers paid and who authorized paying a terrorist. I would feel different if Bill Ayers came for free. Universities are subsidizing Ayers and similar scum by paying them to speak. Why pay them if they are so dedicated to their commie BS beliefs they come for free

[JLS]

Exactly, let me put tother various parts of that article:

” .... and he was not invited to present on subversion or communism.”

Of course he was as your social justice quotation shows.

” ... He wasn’t paid for his time in Moorhead, she said, and the costs of his airfare and hotel room were covered through a special fund established by a donor to bring in visiting speakers.”

Gee you wonder why donations have dried up after publicly admitting this is what you use them for?

Also as others have suggested, the fix is pretty easy. Be able to tell your donors that you invite in a diverse group of speakers. That is an intellectually diverse group of speakers.

The administration of course should not be making decisions on who is invited to campus to speak in every college or department, but the administration should be encouraging them with positive and negative feedback to make the invitees intellectually diverse.

Heck if I were that President I would make sure that particular department invited in say Charles Murray or someone of his ilk and maybe someone associated with US Military education. I would also make sure the campus left treated them civilly. It will be interesting to see if that administration can figure out what is wrong.

[TexasCajun]

Maybe this will wake some folks up!

William Ayers was the Tamerlan Tsarnaev of the 1950s & 1960s'.

[GeronL]

They should have realized allowing a bomber to come and radicalize the campus was a bad idea.

[onedoug]

obama the murderer

[Right Wing Assault]

Maybe they should bring expert educator Charles Manson in and have him give a talk about how to establish cults. I’m sure the prison wouldn’t mind letting out for a public service trip. Academic freedom.

[GBA]

the university has lost a “significant amount” of donor money

I wonder if other schools have this problem. I hope so.

I stopped donating to UNC-CH and hang up on the alumni donation drive callers.

It's a beautiful campus and I enjoyed being there, but I'm not financing them and their progressive agenda beyond what they got me for with tuition and books. I even stopped watching Tar Heel basketball and rarely wear my UNC shirts or caps.

Now, I send my donations to Hillsdale College instead.