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Tuesday, February 8,2011 Georgia Southern University THE www.thegeorgeanne.com Volume 86 • Issue 52 GEORGE-ANNE Ayers protesters take front row BY PATRICK STOKER The group, however, did not Staff reporter apply to use the free speech area on campus in the required 48 hours in A group known as the Sons of advance. Liberty Riders attended the Bill Mike Russell, director of public Ayers lecture last night to show safety and chief of GSU police, said their opposition to his presence on the protestors did not cause any the GSU campus. problems during the lecture. The group refers to themselves "They were very easy to deal as "a political movement of riders with. We told them exactly what and supporters," and they do we had to tell them and they not "endorse or tolerate radical, understood," said Russell. extreme, violent or racial behavior." Rather than actively protest, the "We're just appalled that the riders sat in the first three rows of university would invite someone the auditorium. who is a known terrorist to come The group was not opposed here and to speak to our students," to Ayers speaking, but rather the said Don Hodges, President of the location where it occurred. Sons of Liberty's Georgia chapter. "We are not opposed to him Opposition to Ayers' appearance speaking, but the venue that he was due to his radical past in is speaking to our youth, as him which he co-founded the Weather being a known terrorist, is not what Underground, a communist- needs to be done to our youth," said anti war group, responsible for Mickey Snelling, road captain for Randy Hudgins/STAFF the bombings of several federal the Georgia Sons of Liberty chapter. After his lecture, Bill Ayers takes part in a candid one-on-one discussion with spectator Dory Diavelone of Springfield. buildings. See PROTEST, Page 7 Ayers: Academic freedom, free speech needed for unconventional ideas BY PATRICK STOKER Ayers spoke in front of a crowd Staff reporter at the Performing Arts Center to discuss the importance of freedom of Bill Ayers, the co-founder of the speech and academic freedom. radical Weather Underground, said "The reason freedom of speech last night people must take advantage and academic freedom are needed of their freedom of speech in order to is to speak unconventional ideas, create change. explore difficult or contested "When I go around to campuses terrain; ideas that challenge modern I often hear students say 'I wish orthodoxy." [Barack Obama] would bring peace "That's why you need academic to Iraq but to me that portrays a real freedom is to push the frontiers of misunderstanding of what democracy knowledge and to extort complexity," is about. It is not about electing a king Ayers said. who will do what you hope he will do, Ayers said people need to it's about electing somebody who is one understand what a democracy entails of us and then holding him accountable in order to form their own ideas and Randy Hudgins/STAFF by being an active participating citizen perspectives. Members of the Statesboro community as well as dozens of protesters from the Sons of Liberty Riders attended yourself!' said Ayers. See AYERS, Page 7 Ayers's lecture Monday night. Due to university regulations, protestors were not allowed to carry flags and signs inside. Finished? Today Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. News 2 Arts 11 Newsroom 478-5246 www.thegeorgeanne.com Recycle this H56 H58 H47 H56 H60 Police Beat.-. .3 Classifieds .... 13 Advertising 478-5418 PO Box 8001 O newspaper! 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