For 60s activist turned tenured radical Bill Ayers, having a college lecture cancelled is almost as lucrative as giving one. “Despite the fact that Boston College rescinded its speaking invitation to education professor William Ayers last month, he was still paid,” Benjamin LaKind reported in The Observer at Boston College on April 28, 2009. “According to Michael Madormo, a Boston College senior and president of BC’s chapter of Americans for Informed Democracy (AID), Ayers received $2,500 for a speech he was due to deliver on March 30, 2009.”

“However, since the speech was cancelled within seven days of when it was to be delivered, Ayers was permitted to keep the $2,500, which according to Madormo was in the terms of the speaking contract that Ayers signed with the Student Programs Office.”
The Observer is the alternative newspaper at BC.

The speech was cancelled when alumni learned that the unrepentant Marxist, whose role in several bombings is even now under investigation, would be given a platform to promote his views at BC. Boston-area talk show host Michael Graham, who emceed Accuracy in Academia’s 20th anniversary dinner, broke the news to his listeners.

Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.