Ayers To Make Speech Via Satellite After Appearance Canceled

BOSTON (AP) -- Former Weather Underground Organization member William Ayers will address Boston College students via satellite after university administrators canceled an on-campus personal appearance.

Ayers was invited to speak by two student groups, but university officials rescinded the invitation on Friday.

Students at first tried to find an off-campus site. Melissa Roberts, vice president of the College Democrats of Boston College, tells The Boston Globe that Ayers will now speak via satellite from Chicago on Monday in Devlin Hall on campus.

The talk is open only to Boston College students, faculty and staff.

Ayers was a central figure in the 2008 presidential campaign when Republicans criticized Barack Obama for his connections to the former 1960s radical.

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Information from: The Boston Globe, http://www.boston.com/globe

Comments

[Jymac]

09:03 AM on 03/31/2009

I live in Chicago and had the pleasure of meeting Ayers in a Whole Foods and I can say this...he is not some weird 60's radical the way the media has painted him. He is just liek everyone else except better educated.

[Skyhawk]

02:27 PM on 03/30/2009

Isn't the 60's over yet?

[retromega]

01:39 PM on 03/30/2009

I would have thought that the officials at BC would have taken note of the Holy Father's comments last week when he stated that using condoms would lead to more AIDS transmission. Now we see a Jesuit Liberal Arts institution of higher learning attempting to apply prophylactic methods to protect their students from either the thoughts or the presence of Mr William Ayers. When has the use of intellectual condom's ever lead to intellectual excellence?

There must be some other goal the administration is pursuing. The stated policy on these matters deals with balance. With all these noble intentions, balance, excellence, service, and so forth being addressed, I would wonder how there would be any chance at all that fear would have even made an appearance at such an august institution.

[Babysnake]

03:05 PM on 03/30/2009

Well said.
But in a world with factions becoming more defined, I expect a lot more Fas c ist behavior from all quarters.