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Illinois State Senator Larry Bomke (R-Springfield) really wants to see Bill Ayers fired from his job as a professor at UIC. Bomke has introduced a proposal that says anyone who has committed an act of violence against the governments of the United States or Illinois cannot work at a public university.

The University of Nebraska has withdrawn a speaking invitation to controversial University of Illinois professor Bill Ayers. Ayers, as everyone knows by now, is a former radical with the Weather Underground group, known for some acts of domestic terrorism. Ayers had originally been invited to be a keynote speaker with the university's College of Education and Human Sciences centennial celebration. Nebraska cited "safety reasons" for the cancellation.