Posted on 03/30/2010 11:51:46 AM PDT by Si vis pacem
News Release Statement on Cancellation of Professor William Ayers's Visit to UW
March 30, 2010 -- The director of the Social Justice Research Center at the University of Wyoming cancelled the scheduled appearance of Professor William Ayers. The director announced his decision to the UW administration late Monday evening and noted there are no plans to host Professor Ayers in the future.
In his communication to the administration, the director apologized to the university community for any harm that may have come to it and cited personal and professional reasons, including safety concerns, for the cancellation.
In response, Tom Buchanan, president of the University of Wyoming, said, "I appreciate the consideration for the university that the re-evaluation demonstrated." Buchanan thanked the director for taking this initiative and for his willingness to respect the interests of the UW community, including statewide constituencies.
"Re-evaluation of this event was unavoidable. One way or the other, this event needed to be revisited, and I respect the director for being willing, on his own, to cancel this invitation. I'm satisfied with the outcome," Buchanan said.
He continued, "Academic freedom is a core principle of any institution of higher education. But with that freedom comes an obligation to exercise free thought and free speech in concert with mutual respect and acknowledgment of broader resource and security impacts on the campus. The exercise of freedom requires a commensurate dose of responsibility.
"Observers in and outside of the university would be incorrect to conclude that UW simply caved in to external pressure. Rather, I commended the director of the center for a willingness to be sensitive to the outpouring of criticism, evaluate the arguments, and reconsider the invitation.
"The University of Wyoming is one of the few institutions remaining in today's environment that garners the confidence of the public. The visit by Professor Ayers would have adversely impacted that reputation.
"During the past few days, controversy over Professor Ayers's visit has been intense. While this episode illustrated an opportunity to hear and critically evaluate a variety of ideas thoughtfully, through open, reasoned, and civil debate, it also demonstrates that we must be mindful of the real consequences our actions and decisions have on others."
Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
More likely there were threats by alumnae to stop giving money if they invited terrorists to speak there.
So “Mr. revolutionary’’, Mr. “Bring the revolution home and kill your parents’’ punks out huh? Yeah, Mr.’’ Tough Guy Revolutionary’’. Some ‘’revolutionary’’.
That is exactly what happened.
Well, when you have a Social Justice (communist) Research Center on campus, presumably funded by Federal taxpayer dollars, since there aren’t enough people in Wyoming to fund something like that, it’s a surprise that they would have any problem at all with the despicable communist running dog criminal ayres.
Good to see that *somebody* in Academia still has some sense. Amazing that an unrepentant terrorist can roam freely in the halls of major universities but a conservative commentator who has never hurt anybody gets shouted down and run out on a rail.
sick,sick,sick.
You can go hunting just a couple miles from the UW campus; there’s lots of antelope out there. Lotsa people in Laramie carry scoped rifles in the pickups and they have a couple of good pawn shops (properly stocked) just down the street.
That gives the term “safety concerns” a new meaning.
Wyoming, the home of ormer Asst. Attorney General Tom Sansonetti.
Tom, we miss you in DC. Look at who we have in the DOJ leadership now.
I’m sure this cancellation will be followed up with “The haters won this time” stories in the media.
Correction: a PRO-communist, pro-North Vietnamese group who wanted the North Vietnamese communists to win the war
A vital distinction that should never be overlooked. The Left POSTURES as anti-war but is merely anti-America. War, in fact (depite the bumper sticker), has very often BEEN the “answer” for the likes of Dohrn, Ayers, Rudd—all of whom were/are agents of Castro/KGB/Andropov. They traded handsomely on war to give their propaganda a rallying point by which many useful idiots on campuses and elsewhere were seduced to their side.
If there is any plausible reason for inviting Ayers anywhere, it would be to grill him and Dohrn about their past links to Moscow and Havana and the advice Dohrn herself received from Castro in the 1970s—about identifying a black personality who could be gussied up for mainstream acceptance as a presidential candidate and then who could trade on liberal guilt to achieve power.
They are fully in favor of war and violence if it means advancing the communist agenda. They worship people like Che, Castro, Mao and even Stalin. Hard to be “anti-war” when these blood thirsty monsters are your heroes.
“Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC..”
Is “distinguished” part of the title of his job, or are they seriously saying that this rat pellet is distinguished in some way?
Is “distinguished” part of the title of his job, or are they seriously saying that this rat pellet is distinguished in some way?
"Distinguished" is editorializing in this case; it's not part of his title. I've seen other formal academic titles (e.g. endowed chairs) that actually have "distinguished" as part of the title. Mr. Ayers is simply "Professor."
http://education.uic.edu//directory/faculty_info.cfm?netid=bayers
I heard on the news this morning that the Center itself is privately funded.
Ayers’ specialty is bombing innocents in the dark of night.
He can’t handle criticism. Typical Marxist.
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