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Is Bill Ayers Going To Be Living With Your Child?
March 3, 2009 | 4 Comments
If your kid attends the University of Illinois, Urbana, and is a resident in Allen Hall, then they are going to have the once in a lifetime opportunity to shack up with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayres.
The program, which was started at the university’s Allen Hall during the 1974-75 school year, features visiting guests from a variety of backgrounds and professions. The guests live in the dorm during their week at the school and speak each night of their visit. [LINK]
This is not the first time Bill, or his wife, have participated in this little slumber party.
Here is how the university describes former terrorist, Bill Ayers:
March 8, 2009 – March 12, 2009
Bill Ayers is a school reform activist and Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is founder of the Center for Youth and Society and founder and co-director of the Small Schools Workshop. He has written extensively about social justice, democracy, and education. His interests focus on the political and cultural contexts of schooling as well as the meaning and ethical purposes of teachers, students, and families. Ayers’ book Fugitive Days recounts his experiences in the Weathermen and the Weather Underground.
Ooops. Did we forget to mention that he’s an proud “retired” terrorist.
Here is his full schedule:
School reform activist and education scholar Bill Ayers will be a Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence 3/9-3/12. He will be speaking each night of his residency. All events are open to the public and take place in the Main Lounge of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana.
Bill Ayers is a school reform activist and Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is founder of the Center for Youth and Society and founder and co-director of the Small Schools Workshop. He has written extensively about social justice, democracy, and education. His interests focus on the political and cultural contexts of schooling as well as the meaning and ethical purposes of teachers, students, and families. Ayers’ book Fugitive Days recounts his experiences in the Weathermen and the Weather Underground.
Sunday, March 8
7pm –The Weather Underground - Screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary about Bill Ayers and the rise and fall of this radical movement.
(*please note that Bill Ayers will not be present for this screening.)
Monday, March 9
7pm – Opening Program – Yes We Can: Reflections on Campaign 2008
Tuesday, March 10
7pm – Fugitive Days
Wednesday, March 11
7pm – Education for Democracy
Thursday, March 12
7pm – The New Activism
If there are any students in Urbana with their heads screwed on straight, please record every second of this encounter with domestic terror, and upload it to the internet as fast as possible. Also, feel free to send links to the footage and/or audio to Founding Bloggers ;)
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I live in this community. My daughter attends the University of Illinois Laboratory High School. It is a high school for gifted students on the U of I campus in Urbana.
Bill Ayers will fit right in.
Living in this community is a nightmare. Any student who speaks out against liberals and socialism risks being openly mocked, verbal abuse and reprimand.
Even at the university high school there was and is a relentless assault on repbulicans, the Bush years were a nightmare for this.
One instructor falsely proclaimed that Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity were advocating violence.
They also foment hatred with inaccurate, ill informed, spin that indoctrinates the drones that live, work and attend school here.
There is nothing to do if you want decent grades and a good recommendation for college or graduate school.
I fear this hopelessly ignorant anti-american community is the template that Obama will take to a national level.
To bring in Bill Ayers in such a manner as to glorify his history is another example of their unbalanced mindset. To have him reside in a dorm with the students implies a hope that this admitted, violent, unrepentant terrorist will be able to influence them in some manner by this cohabitation.
Disgusting, but par for the community.
I have written to the University of Illinois at Chicago, Dean of Education. I am a former resident of Chicago and worked at the University for a time. I can tell you that I am disgusted that a Terrorist is now in a position to teach future teachers.
Keep exposing this man despite the area you live in. Keep speaking out and do not let the crazies out there speak for you.
This must be stopped! No one can give up our great country by being shouted down!
you may not agree with Bill AYers’ pilitics and may not approve of his past as a elader in the Weatehr Underground, about which he has written honestly, intorspectively, and not without some self criticism. but he is indeed a Distinguished Professor of Education and an eloquent spokesperson for the rights of children to have a decent learning environment, whatever their station in life.
my own daughter is in high school, and I would be proud and happy if she got to attend a seminar led by PRofessor Ayers when she is in colelge, or even before. she can make her own decisions as to what in his background makes sense and what does not.
do you have even one tenth the educational achievement of Professor Ayers? I admire decent, educated conservative intellectualism, believe me, even when I disagree with the conclusions those intellectuals reach. but I;ve found that most of the critics of Bill Ayers could not have paid their way into an undegraduate degree, let alone earn a doctorate through ahrd work and study and dedication to the lives of children.
but blog away, it’s the last refuge of te unintelligent.
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