Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

University cancels speech by Ayers
OMAHA WORLD-HERALD ^ | October 18, 2008 | KHRISTOPHER J. BROOKS AND ANDREW NELSON

Posted on 10/18/2008 9:58:40 AM PDT by 3AngelaD

As criticism mounted hour-by-hour, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln canceled a planned lecture by Bill Ayers, a noted education scholar and controversial 1960s radical. Just 11 days after next month’s election, the University of Illinois-Chicago professor, William Ayers, is scheduled to speak at a student research conference held by the UNL College of Education and Human Science...

UNL education professor David Moshman, who said Ayers should have been allowed to speak, said he feels the university caved under political pressure from Gov. Dave Heineman, Bruning and others. Moshman said the cancellation will hurt UNL's academic reputation within higher education circles...

(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: academia; ayers; domesticterrorism; highereducation; liberalmorons
I know earlier versions of this story have been posted, but I just had to post this one so everyone could read the idiot David Moshman's comments about UNL's reputation. Too hysterically funny. I am still waiting to learn who or what was going to pay his speaker's fees. It was no doubt the idiot Moshman who had the brilliant idea of inviting Ayers in the mistaken belief that, two weeks before the election, no one would notice. Moshman and the rest of the "academic community" need to take some remedial classes in rational thinking. Wouldn't you like to be in the Nebraska legislature next year when the school comes in to demand its appropriation?
1 posted on 10/18/2008 9:58:40 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

It will help their reputation. Not jurt it. It will only hurt their reputation will idiots


2 posted on 10/18/2008 10:01:26 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD
Photobucket
3 posted on 10/18/2008 10:03:08 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

This is why it is important to write a letter of praise for doing the right thing. I wouldnt get to political, but thank them for looking after the students and thank them for considering the safety concerns of the student.


4 posted on 10/18/2008 10:03:40 AM PDT by Texas4ever (!WHO IS OBAMA?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

I have two questions that make me go hmmmmmm:
1) Is it just now all of a sudden that people are *finally* starting to get the Ayers thing?
2) And with all this “work” (& $$) that’s been done with disadvantaged children in the past few decades, WHY are there more of them? You’d think the seeds planted with their parents would take root from the “help” they got.


5 posted on 10/18/2008 10:06:12 AM PDT by Dasaji (On a beach somewhere in my head...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD
"UNL education professor David Moshman, who said Ayers should have been allowed to speak,"

Well prof Mushman...your boy can speak all he wants to...just not as a guest (and presumably paid) speaker at the school.

There's always the street corner.

Don't you college wonks have enough of your marxist left agenda being thrust at our kids?
6 posted on 10/18/2008 10:07:11 AM PDT by FrankR (Liberalism is communism, by the drink. O'Rourke)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

(UNL education professor David Moshman, who said Ayers should have been allowed to speak, said he feels the university caved under political pressure from Gov. Dave Heineman, Bruning and others. Moshman said the cancellation will hurt UNL’s academic reputation within higher education circles.)

That says it all. They’re not worried about the original invite damaging the reputation of the University!


7 posted on 10/18/2008 10:09:08 AM PDT by winner3000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

They called it off not because it was wrong rather because it was going to affect donations. True academic courage.


8 posted on 10/18/2008 10:09:26 AM PDT by airedale ( XZ)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: franksolich

UNL ping.


9 posted on 10/18/2008 10:10:05 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Senator Government wants to spread your wealth around. Are you going to let him?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD
Bill Ayers, a noted education scholar and controversial 1960s radical.

How about just "domestic terrorist"?

10 posted on 10/18/2008 10:10:06 AM PDT by Ben Hecks (North Korea and Cuba both have great "Share the Wealth" programs)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

I missed the earlier ones, thanks.

1. The biggest risk was a financial risk.

2. I work with academics quite often. Most education professors I come in contact with are either irresponsible, have poor judgement, usually aren’t as intellegent as other academics, or if the have some modicum of intellegence it is overshadowed by insecurity, or a compulsion to make all things political. Some of them push the envelope and when they get called on it scream oppression of academic integrity/freedom (eventhough their actions are disingenous at best). They want money, but don’t want accountability. There is an odd sense of entitlement I see with very few other academics or business people. (I’ve met a women’s studies prof and a couple of really lazy social scientists that fall in this category)

The ones I come into contact with them do not (I haven’t figured out if this is a can’t or a won’t) understand fair market principles and good business practices. Because they don’t, they are frustrated that they have no value (ie can’t afford the house in the really GOOD zip code and have to drive a Toyota).

I think Moshman is full of it. I think he invited Ayers to get attention and when the outside world that pays his salary burst his bubble he squealed like the sheltered brat that he is.


11 posted on 10/18/2008 10:24:41 AM PDT by PrincessB ("I am an expert on my own opinion." - Dave Ramsey)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

Don’t worry, there will be plenty of opportunities to invite him to speak after he becomes 0bama’s Secretary of Education.


12 posted on 10/18/2008 10:26:42 AM PDT by reg45
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

He will be too busy with his Homeland Security Director’s duties by then anyway.


13 posted on 10/18/2008 10:26:57 AM PDT by Old Professer (+)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PrincessB
If you can't do, teach!

If you can't teach, teach teachers.

14 posted on 10/18/2008 10:28:11 AM PDT by reg45
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

Don’t kid yourself...This is Obama TEMPORARILY thowing him under the bus....just like Reverend Wrong...


15 posted on 10/18/2008 10:45:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD
Moshman said the cancellation will hurt UNL's academic reputation within higher education circles...

What a ridiculous, self-important, pompous piece of garbage-writing that is.

May I ask whether, in those extremely enlightened educational circles, some have actually touched the robe of the Chosen One? Did they not then fall faint?

16 posted on 10/18/2008 10:46:32 AM PDT by Tax Government (Elect Obama's Teleprompter)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: johnny7

Ayers is an education professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Dohrn is a law professor at Northwestern University despite the fact
she has no licence to practice law


Resume of a Terrorist: Obama’s Buddy Ayers

7 October 1969 – Bombing of Haymarket Police Statue in Chicago, apparently as a “kickoff” for the “Days of Rage” riots in the city October 8-11, 1969. The Weathermen later claimed credit for the bombing in their book, “Prairie Fire.”

8-11 October 1969 – The “Days of Rage” riots occur in Chicago in which 287 Weatherman members from throughout the country were arrested and a large amount of property damage was done.

6 December 1969 – Bombing of several Chicago Police cars parked in a precinct parking lot at 3600 North Halsted Street, Chicago. The WUO stated in their book “Prairie Fire” that they had did the explosion.

27-31 December 1969 – Weathermen hold a “War Council” meeting in Flint, MI, where they finalize their plans to submerge into an underground status from which they plan to commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government. Thereafter they are called the “Weather Underground Organization” (WUO).

13 February 1970 - Bombing of several police vehicles of the Berkeley, California, Police Department .

16 February 1970 – Bombing of Golden Gate Park branch of the San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen.

6 March 1970 – Bombing in the 13th Police District of the Detroit, Michigan. 34 sticks of dynamite are discovered. During February and early March, 1970, members of the WUO, led by Bill Ayers, are reported to be in Detroit, during that period, for the purpose of bombing a police facility.

6 March 1970 – “bomb factory” located in New York’s Greenwich Village accidentally explodes. WUO members die . The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer’s dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The bomb was packed with nails TO INFILICT MAXIMUM CASUALTIES UPON DETONATION.

30 March 1970 – Chicago Police discover a WUO “bomb factory” on Chicago’s north side. A subsequent discovery of a WUO “weapons cache” in a south side Chicago apartment several days later ends WUO activity in the city.

10 May 1970 – Bombing of The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C..

21 May 1970 – The WUO under Bernardine Dohrn’s (Ayers’ current wife) name releases its “Declaration of a State of War” communique.

6 June 1970 – The WUO sends a letter claiming credit for bombing of the San Francisco Hall of Justice; however, no explosion actually took place. Months later, workmen in this building located an unexploded device which had apparently been dormant for some time.

9 June 1970 - Bombing of The New York City Police Headquarters.

27 July 1970 - Bombing of The Presidio army base in San Francisco. [NYT, 7/27/70]

12 September 1970 – The WUO helps Dr. Timothy Leary, break out and escape from the California Men’s Colony prison.

8 October 1970 - Bombing of Marin County courthouse. [NYT, 8/10/70]

10 October 1970 - Bombing of Queens traffic-court building . [NYT, 10/10/70, p. 12]

14 October 1970 - Bombing of The Harvard Center for International Affairs [NYT, 10/14/70, p. 30]

1 March 1971 - Bombing of The United States Capitol . “ [NYT, 3/2/71]

April, 1971 – abandoned WUO “bomb factory” discovered in San Francisco, California.

29 August, 1971 - Bombing of the Office of California Prisons . [LAT, 8/29/71]

17 September 1971 - Bombing of The New York Department of Corrections in Albany, NY [NYT, 9/18/71]

15 October 1971 - Bombing of William Bundy’s office in the MIT research center. [NYT, 10/16/71]

19 May 1972 - Bombing of The Pentagon . [NYT, 5/19/72]

18 May 1973 - Bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York

28 September 1973 - Bombing of ITT headquarters in New York and Rome, Italy . [NYT, 9/28/73]

6 March 1974 - Bombing of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare offices in San Francisco

31 May 1974 - Bombing of The Office of the California Attorney General.

17 June 1974 - Bombing of Gulf Oil’s Pittsburgh headquarters .

11 September 1974 – Bombing of Anaconda Corporation (part of the Rockefeller Corporation).

29 January 1975 - Bombing of the State Department in (AP. “State Department Rattled by Blast,” The Daily Times-News, January 29 1975, p.1)

16 June 1975 - Bombing of Banco de Ponce (a Puerto Rican bank) in New York .

September, 1975 – Bombing of the Kennecott Corporation .

October 20, 1981 - Brinks robbery in which several members of the Weather Underground stole over $1 million from a Brinks armored car near Nyack, New York. The robbers murdered 2 police officers and 1 Brinks guard. Several others were wounded.

1981 “Guilty as hel*. Free as a bird. America is a great country,” Ayers said when interviewed by David Horowitz.

September 11, 2001 “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Ayers is quoted in a New York Times article.


"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana





17 posted on 10/18/2008 11:05:31 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: 3AngelaD

What was the lecture about.

How to make a bomb without blowing up your own building.


18 posted on 10/18/2008 11:06:21 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............but does have a bracelet!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Charles Henrickson

I dunno.

They said he was going to talk about childhood education, not politics.

The problem being, there’s oodles and oodles of professors of childhood education all over the place, and so I wonder why he in particular was selected.


19 posted on 10/20/2008 2:19:58 PM PDT by franksolich (Scourge of the Primitives, in Service to Humanity)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson