More outrageous behavior by our Colleges. Like Bill Ayres, and Bernadine Dohrn another Weather Underground murderer and radical, Kathy Boudin, has received a prestigious position at one of our institutions of higher learning funded with our tax dollars.
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Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin â who spent 22 years in prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard â now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at Columbia Universityâs School of Social Work, The Post has learned.
Boudin, 69, this year won another academic laurel â being named the Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School, where last month she gave a lecture on âthe politics of parole and re-entry.â
Boudinâs bounce-back into respectability after her 2003 parole comes to light a week before the release of Robert Redfordâs movie âThe Company You Keep,â loosely based on the $1.6 million heist.
Boudinâs status of perp-turned-prof outraged the widow of one of her victims, Brinks guard and dad of three Peter Paige, who was gunned down by her accomplices from the Black Liberation Army on Oct. 20, 1981, in Rockland County.
Boudin acted as a getaway driver in the heist.
âShe doesnât deserve a job at all,â said Josephine Paige, 74, when told of Boudinâs posts. âShe doesnât deserve anything, nothing at all. I think she should be back in an institution.â
John Hanchar, the nephew of another victim of the robbery, Nyack Police Officer Edward OâGrady, said that while Boudin âhas a right to do whatever she wants . . . I just hope the people that sheâs lecturing are smart enough to question why [she felt] like killing people is an acceptable choice to forward their goals.â
âItâs easy to forget that violence is never the answer. Nine children grew up without their dads because of her actions,â said Hanchar, whose uncle OâGrady was shot with automatic weapons
Boudin did not respond to a request for comment.
She teaches about the issues facing convicts and their families when a person is released from prison.
Of the hundreds of students Boudin has taught, Yoshioka said, just three have expressed qualms about her criminal background, and only one âswitched outâ of a class because of those concerns.
One Friday, a criminal-justice conference at the school will feature keynote address by Angela Davis, another infamous radical, and later this month Boudin is scheduled to speak at Columbia Law Schoolâs conference on child and family advocacy.
âIâm happy that sheâs doing something positive with her life,â said Robert Van Cura, Rockland Countyâs undersheriff. But he said, âI believe thereâs probably other people that are available to provide education beyond someone who is on parole for murder.â
Columbia School of Social Work Associate Dean Marianne Yoshioka, who hired Boudin for the adjunct-professor post in 2008, said she has been âan excellent teacher who gets incredible evaluations from her students each year.â
dan.mangan@nypost.com
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/outrage_puQlvJIeZxsT7nFZds0HIJ
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Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin â who spent 22 years in prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard â now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at Columbia Universityâs School of Social Work, The Post has learned.
Boudin, 69, this year won another academic laurel â being named the Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School, where last month she gave a lecture on âthe politics of parole and re-entry.â
Boudinâs bounce-back into respectability after her 2003 parole comes to light a week before the release of Robert Redfordâs movie âThe Company You Keep,â loosely based on the $1.6 million heist.
Boudinâs status of perp-turned-prof outraged the widow of one of her victims, Brinks guard and dad of three Peter Paige, who was gunned down by her accomplices from the Black Liberation Army on Oct. 20, 1981, in Rockland County.
Boudin acted as a getaway driver in the heist.
âShe doesnât deserve a job at all,â said Josephine Paige, 74, when told of Boudinâs posts. âShe doesnât deserve anything, nothing at all. I think she should be back in an institution.â
John Hanchar, the nephew of another victim of the robbery, Nyack Police Officer Edward OâGrady, said that while Boudin âhas a right to do whatever she wants . . . I just hope the people that sheâs lecturing are smart enough to question why [she felt] like killing people is an acceptable choice to forward their goals.â
âItâs easy to forget that violence is never the answer. Nine children grew up without their dads because of her actions,â said Hanchar, whose uncle OâGrady was shot with automatic weapons
Boudin did not respond to a request for comment.
She teaches about the issues facing convicts and their families when a person is released from prison.
Of the hundreds of students Boudin has taught, Yoshioka said, just three have expressed qualms about her criminal background, and only one âswitched outâ of a class because of those concerns.
One Friday, a criminal-justice conference at the school will feature keynote address by Angela Davis, another infamous radical, and later this month Boudin is scheduled to speak at Columbia Law Schoolâs conference on child and family advocacy.
âIâm happy that sheâs doing something positive with her life,â said Robert Van Cura, Rockland Countyâs undersheriff. But he said, âI believe thereâs probably other people that are available to provide education beyond someone who is on parole for murder.â
Columbia School of Social Work Associate Dean Marianne Yoshioka, who hired Boudin for the adjunct-professor post in 2008, said she has been âan excellent teacher who gets incredible evaluations from her students each year.â
dan.mangan@nypost.com
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/outrage_puQlvJIeZxsT7nFZds0HIJ
