Chicago Tribune reporter James Janega went looking for current University of Illinois at Chicago education professor and unrepentant former Weather Underground radical William Ayers, ostensibly looking for Ayers' comment on the controversy surrounding his political and professional attachment to Dem presidential Barack Obama, and got what you would expect in the form of a 'no comment' response to the his queries (Said Ayers: "What could I possibly add? ... Life happens.").
While Ayers' response will be unsatisfying to many, Janega's report did contain these two interesting tidbits, which are
comical in so many ways:
The blistering criticism of Ayers comes as a shock to colleagues in UIC's education building, where he is seen as "a really nice guy," said Phillip Kisunzu, a post-doctoral research assistant in the curriculum and instruction department who works across the hall from Ayers.
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Ayers' office door is decorated with pictures of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara and Malcolm X. It is also home to pictures of children, bills of rights for students and parents, and a rainbow-hued greeting card advising "How to Be Really Alive." A place of prominence is give to a New Yorker cartoon of a man interviewing for a job. The interviewer says, "I'm trying to find a way to balance your strengths against your felonies."
It fits so perfectly...