For leaders at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the planned retirement from teaching of former Vietnam War-era radical William Ayers will be a great loss.RTWT.
Never mind that, in hopes of quelling a political storm two years ago, UIC was compelled to release more than 1,000 files detailing the activities of an education reform group that brought together Ayers and then-presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Or that the university was inundated with questions in 2001 after the release of Ayers' memoir, "Fugitive Days," where he wrote about helping with bombings of the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and other government sites.
While controversial and even hated by some, Ayers, who has served as an education professor at UIC since 1987, is celebrated on campus for his academic contributions, particularly in the area of school reforms, said UIC education Dean Vicki Chou.
Ayers was unavailable for comment Thursday. But Chou confirmed Thursday that he will retire at the end of the summer.
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3 comments:
He is no better than McVeigh. He should have been jailed for life. Crazy world we live in.
Perhaps he is going to take up the job of waxing Obama's pole full time.
-Dave
A more likely position for him would be Gruppenfuhrer of the reeducation camps.
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