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The administration of Georgia Southern University has blocked a student group from inviting sixties radical and education reformer William Ayers to campus.
Ayers, a leader of the Weather Underground, became notorious during last year’s presidential campaign because of his connections to Barack Obama. He was invited to GSU by that campus’s Multicultural Advisory Council, a student group.
Though Ayers had spoken at GSU before without incident, his invitation drew criticism and protest this time, and the university claimed the controversy would raise security costs for the speech to $13,000. They cited these costs in vetoing the event.
The administration of the University of Nebraska at Lincoln rescinded a speaking invitation to Ayers last fall in the face of criticism by donors and political leaders. Ayers was forced to cancel a speech at the University of Toronto last month when he was denied entry into Canada by border officials.
Tens of thousands of French students and professors took to the streets on Tuesday to protest government plans to reform the nation’s universities. The proposals call for job cuts and new reviews of faculty research by university administrators.
New School president Bob Kerrey has been under fire from students and faculty for months, but at a meeting yesterday a representative of student activist group New School in Exile upped the ante.
Reading from a prepared statement, she said that if Kerrey and vice president James Murtha don’t resign by April 1, “we will shut down the functions of the university. We will bring it to a halt. We will make it stop.”
“Through our civil disobedience,” she continued, “we will reclaim the university as a center of academic and political action … we will continue to struggle until we have restored the legacy and integrity of the New School!”
Undergraduate applications to New Orleans colleges are spiking, driven by out-of-town students who want to lend a hand with post-Katrina recovery.
The increase is highest at Tulane University, with a record 40,000 applications for just 1,500 seats.
Many Tulane applicants say they have visited New Orleans as part of volunteer relief projects. “They get exposed to the city,” the college’s registrar said. “They get exposed to the university.”
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