Posted on 04/23/2009 9:34:20 AM PDT by suspects
Former radical William Ayers will get a chance to speak on a Massachusetts college campus after all.
Two months after Boston College canceled a scheduled appearance by Ayers, the onetime member of the 1960s militant antiwar organization the Weather Underground will be at Brandeis University next Thursday and will be welcomed by students and school administrators.
"This is about freedom of educational opportunity," said Brandeis spokesman Dennis Nealon. "The university has made it clear that it is not going to bar the talk despite the controversial nature of the speaker."
Ayers will speak about "lessons learned from the antiwar movement," said Lev Hirschhorn, a sophomore and a campaign coordinator for Democracy for America, one of two student organizations that invited him. "He might have some interesting insights about the successes and the failures of the movement."
Now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Ayers was blocked from speaking at Boston College March 30 by school administrators who cited pressure from Brighton residents and Boston police officers. Boston police Sergeant Walter Schroeder was killed during a 1970 bank robbery in Brighton Center by radicals who some law enforcement officials believed were linked to the Weather Underground. Ayers was in Chicago during his time in the movement.
Brandeis has its own links to the 1970 shooting. One of Schroeder's daughters is a police sergeant in Waltham. Two of those involved in the robbery, Katherine Ann Power and Susan Saxe, were Brandeis students. One of their accomplices shot Schroeder in the back.
The event will be held at the Shapiro Campus Center and is open to members of the Brandeis community.
The sponsoring student groups will hold meetings beforehand, on Monday and Tuesday, to allow members of the university
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Guilty as sin free as a bird.
Or how I murdered and maimed innocent people and prospered.
Why not Tim McVeigh and Charlie Manson? I don’t get it?
Why is this guy not a host of an MSNBC show by now?
OK, out of all of the thousands upon thousands of people Brandeis could have asked to speak, why did they invite a self-confessed turd like Mr. Ayers.
But then, Brandeis is as liberal as it gets.
Wonder is Brandeis would be so tolerant of a former Muslim terrorist?
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
ayers speaking at Brandeis...”pig in Shiite”
Is there a FReeping of that visit in the planning.
Hey, hey William A!
How many cops did you kill today?
Only in America could a terrorist that despises this country, called for kids to kill their parents, said he wanted 25 million exterminated, be teaching the youth of our nation. PATHETIC! Any other country he would be in prison for life or hung.
This domestic, commie terrorist swine is likely on a duel under-the-table speaking tour for the ‘new’ Homeland Insecurity.
I doubt that Lev even knows who Katherine Ann Powers is.
“Liberalism is a mental disorder.”
Correction: Liberalism is absolute insanity mixed in with lots of obnoxious neurosis to hide the insanity.
IMHO
“Former radical William Ayers...”
I guess the writer feels Ayers is no longer a radical, now that our pseudo president is from the same radically left cloth.
You are right. The liberal students are like a sponge for the manipulating Marxist professors. As I recall a few months ago Canadian customs refused entrance, to Ayers when he attempted to enter to speak another collage and collect his speaking fee. Well done to Canada!
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