Group Says Bill Ayers Got His Job the 'Chicago Way'

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of a state investigation into
how hundreds of students were improperly granted admission to the University
of Illinois because of high-level political and financial connections, the
public policy group America's Survival, Inc. (ASI) will hold a news conference
on Thursday in Washington, D.C. to examine how Barack Obama associate Bill
Ayers became a "Distinguished Professor" at the same university.

Ayers had been a leader of the Weather Underground organization and worked
with Obama on educational issues.

"The evidence so far points to his rich father, Thomas Ayers, who sat on the
board of the Tribune Company, which publishes the Chicago Tribune, as
providing the 'clout' to get his son ensconced at the University of Illinois,"
said ASI President Cliff Kincaid, a veteran journalist who serves as editor of
Accuracy in Media. "There is no other reasonable explanation for how Ayers got
this job. Thomas Ayers may also have played a role in getting Ayers' wife
Bernardine Dohrn a teaching job at Northwestern University in the Chicago
area. Thomas Ayers had been the chairman of the board of trustees at
Northwestern."

In a report to be released at the "Communism in the Classroom" conference,
Professor Mary Grabar explains that "Bill Ayers' rehabilitation from fugitive
to 'Distinguished Professor' of Education earning a $126,000 salary at a
public Chicago university remains something of a mystery." However,
considering his lack of credentials for the post and his flaunting of academic
standards, she asks, "Was Ayers' appointment part of the 'Chicago Way?'"

Another speaker, noted author and Professor Paul Kengor, will speak on
"Anti-Anti-Communism in the Academy."

Copies of syllabi from Ayers' courses, obtained under the state Freedom of
Information Act, will be released for the first time, and several reports on
the activities of Ayers' and his comrades in academia will be provided as
well. One report will examine a controversial trip made by Ayers and Dohrn to
Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.

The event will be held on August 20 at 12:30 p.m. in the First Amendment
Lounge of the National Press Club (13th floor, 529 14th St., NW) in
Washington, D.C.

The conference is free of charge and open to the press and the public. But
reservations are requested at 443-964-8208 or Kincaid@comcast.net.

SOURCE America's Survival, Inc.

America's Survival, Inc., +1-443-964-8208, Kincaid@comcast.net