Detroit News: Bill Ayers protested at Oakland University event
Co-founder of group that bombed federal buildings shares education reform views.
ROCHESTER — Bill Ayers came to Michigan to talk about the future of education reform in the United States, but the anti-war activist, who participated in a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and ’70s, could not escape his past.
A line of 20 protesters with signs filled the back wall of a lecture hall at Oakland University on Tuesday as Ayers gave a brief talk on democracy and education.
Some booed when Ayers entered the room, while about 170 OU students, faculty and alumni applauded the college professor who discussed what he termed “savage inequities” in education that affect minorities, women and gays.
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