Weatherman Banks Kill Fee

Campus Report ^ | May 18, 2009 | Malcolm A. Kline

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Weatherman Banks Kill Fee

by: Malcolm A. Kline, May 18, 2009

For 60s activist turned tenured radical Bill Ayers, having a college lecture cancelled is almost as lucrative as giving one. “Despite the fact that Boston College rescinded its speaking invitation to education professor William Ayers last month, he was still paid,” Benjamin LaKind reported in The Observer at Boston College on April 28, 2009. “According to Michael Madormo, a Boston College senior and president of BC’s chapter of Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), Ayers received $2,500 for a speech he was due to deliver on March 30, 2009.”

“However, since the speech was cancelled within seven days of when it was to be delivered, Ayers was permitted to keep the $2,500, which according to Madormo was in the terms of the speaking contract that Ayers signed with the Student Programs Office.” The Observer is the alternative newspaper at BC.....

[La Lydia]

That has got to be one of the crappiest headlines I ever have tried to read. Must be a student publication.

[Buckeye McFrog]

yes, I thought that the Weather Underground had somehow gotten hold of a bank via TARP money and canceled everyone’s ATM fees (the way things are going, that scenario no longer strains credulity...)