Hey! I take offense to that! I'm an LA student at Purdue!when I was at Purdue I always felt dirty when I left the Engineering area and had to go to the liberal arts side..... to many dirty hippy types!
The Dean of the College of Liberal Arts is Irwin Weiser. You
can reach his office at 765-494-3663. The President is Francis
Cordova. You can email her office through this contact page:
Meet The President
If you share my belief this action is detrimental to Purdue
University then please join me in requesting a withdrawal of
the invitation to William Ayers to lecture on September 24.
Rambone's letter to the president of Purdue said:I am an alumnus and I would like to express my displeasure that Purdue is inviting William Ayers to speak at Purdue.
A man named SGT Brian McDonnell of the San Francisco Police Department was murdered in 1970 by a bomber who never got convicted. A domestic terrorist and murderer escaped conviction on a technicality. That murderer has been invited to speak to Purdue students on September 24.
Just because he escaped justice, does not mean the country has forgiven or forgotten his crimes. As an alumnus I am very disturbed by this. I hope you will do the right thing and revoke the invitation for Bill Ayers to speak at Purdue. My donations could be better sent elsewhere if he is allowed to speak his radical message to Purdue students.
Kind regards.
And now Purdue, great bastion of the free exchange of ideas, is limiting seating to 100, That way, so there won't be any room for OTHER people freely exchanging OTHER ideas — like "terrorist murderers are bad, m'kay"....
Link to today's newspaper: Purdue puts limits on Ayers' visit | jconline.com | Journal and Courier
Chris Sigurdson, assistant vice president of external relations, said no attendees -- including media and faculty -- will be allowed to take photos of Ayers during his discussion or make audio or video recordings of the talk.
"We are doing that to prevent people from using what (Ayers) says for reasons other than educational purposes," Sigurdson said.
No overflow rooms for satellite viewing of Ayers' talk will be made available for the same reason, he said.
Dear Mr. Weiser,
Thank you for your prompt response concerning William Ayres’ appearance on September 24th.
As noted in my original message to you, my protest is not related to Mr. Ayres’ speech, itself. I protest that you elected to include a person with a history of terrorist bombings into your honorable speakers group of educators, business people and soldiers.
The protest is not about ideas; it’s about the caliber of people you choose to employ.
As a ‘critical consumer’ of information and ideas, I see that you neglected to address the issue and apparently felt that responding in platitudes would make this Purdue grad ‘go away’.
Sorry, it didn’t work.
Again, thank you for a prompt response.