BOSTON, March 29 (UPI) -- Boston College students say they will stage a lecture by William Ayers off campus after school officials banned him from speaking.

CHICAGO, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- Chicago educator and former 1960s and '70s radical William Ayers says an effort to fire him from his state university teaching job is "frivolous."

SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Feb. 5 (UPI) -- An Illinois lawmaker says he wants to fire university professor William Ayers because of Ayers' 1960s and '70s involvement in the radical group the Weathermen.

TORONTO, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- William Ayers, a U.S. education professor from Chicago with a radical past including bombings in the 1960s and 1970s, was denied entry into Canada.

EVANSTON, Ill., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A talk former 1960s radical William Ayers was scheduled to give this week at Northwestern University outside Chicago has been postponed.

CHICAGO, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- One-time radical William Ayers said Friday the Republican Party "demonized" his militant past to wage a campaign of fear against Barack Obama.

CHICAGO, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The Chicago '60s radical whose association with Barack Obama Republicans say leads to questions about the Democrat's judgment is keeping a low profile.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Republican presidential hopeful John McCain said Tuesday that Democrat Brack Obama's association with a 1960s radical will come up in their debate Wednesday.

RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama is like al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden because they both have terrorist "friends," a GOP leader says.