University of Illinois denies Bill Ayers emeritus status

[The Northerner]

In a very unusual move, University of Illinois trustees on Thursday denied giving emeritus status to controversial retired professor William Ayers.

The vote, at a U. of I. board meeting in Urbana, was unanimous and came after a passionate speech by board chair Christopher Kennedy, who invoked the 1968 assassination of his father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in saying that he was voting his conscience.

The other trustees, without comment, also voted against the appointment.

Ayers, the Vietnam War-era radical, had been an education faculty member at UIC since 1987. He retired effective Aug. 31 and then sought the emeritus faculty status, a largely honorific title that includes some benefits such as library privileges.

A co-founder of the Weather Underground anti-war group, Ayers was frequently in the media spotlight and, as such, was one of the university's best-known faculty members.

While trustees regularly vote on emeritus appointments, they rarely comment about them.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-ayers-denied-emeritus-20100923,0,5045265.story

[virgogal]

1. I was not aware that Ayers dedicated a book to Sirhan Sirhan.

[brendan120678]

2. Among others. It was dedicated to a number of...

"political prisoners,' and Sirhan Sirhan happened to be one of those named.

[virgogal]

4. I know---I had read the article but I don't get the "political prisoner" thing.

He is a murderer.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. political prisoner?

[lynne]

3. Karma . . .

- its what Ayers got for dinner, served up piping hot by Christopher Kennedy. How in the world could Ayers consider Sirhan Sirhan a political prisoner?

[blondeatlast]

6. Dear Professor Dolt: Murder is criminal, not political.

Stuff yourself.

[DailyGrind51]

7. A dedication to the killer of the last hope for true Progressive leadership? Ayers should be egged

and spat upon!

[SoCalDem]

8. I doubt that he's losing sleep over it

[Gabi Hayes]

9. all depends on whose dogma one chooses to swallow:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Scientists_Multiple_shooters_in_RFK_assassination_0326.html

Forty years after Democratic rising star Robert F. Kennedy was killed at a Los Angeles hotel during his presidential run, new evidence suggests the man serving a life sentence for his murder did not fire the shots that killed the charismatic senator.

Forensic scientists met at a conference in Connecticut this week to discuss their independent findings that cast serious doubt on the Kennedy assassination. Sirhan Sirhan is serving a life sentence in Kennedy's death, but the conference presenters argue he could not have fired the fatal shot that killed Kennedy.

One investigator, Dr. Robert Joling, has studied the Kennedy assassination for nearly four decades. He determined the fatal shot came from behind Kennedy, while Sirhan was four to six feet in front of the senator and never got close enough to shoot him from behind, an NBC affiliate reports.

Analysis by another forensics engineer, Philip Van Praag, of a Canadian journalists tape recording, known as the Pruszynski recording, determined that 13 shots were fired while Kennedy was killed, although Sirhan's gun only held eight bullets, according to the NBC reporter. This suggests that a second shooter was involved in the assassination.

http://www.google.com/search?q=who+killed+rfk&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

not as if this is exactly a new story. sort like his brother: how many shots were really fired? that's what it boils down to

who does one believe?

[Gabi Hayes]

10. I saw him speak the week before he was killed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEJ-ym5C9TY&feature=related

[Gabi Hayes]

11. roots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAT2KldikME&feature=related