CAMPUS

Free Speech! (When its convenient)

Professors at Boston College continue to come out of the woodwork to support “free speech” concerning the canceled Bill Ayers event. Despite the fact that 1968 occurred over 40 years ago, some of the more liberal professors at Boston College never got the memo. Asserting that students and professors are somehow being “suppressed” by not being allowed to have an unrepentant terrorist on campus, some tenured professors are indignantly demanding that the university “answer” for its unacceptable actions. While some professors are making their complaints known in a highly professional, logical manner, others are way too extreme in their views and are exposing themselves as utter hypocrites.

One of my first experiences as an admitted student to Boston College regarded the protests over then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s 2006 commencement address. Professors asserted that because Rice had a part in planning the invasion of Iraq, she should not be honored by the university in such a way and should furthermore not be allowed to address the graduates. The ironic part of the Bill Ayers protests is that professors who objected to Rice’s commencement address are now demonstrating for Bill Ayers, effectively turning the “free speech” issue into a “free speech when I like what’s being said” issue.