Posted on 04/05/2013 5:58:36 AM PDT by IbJensen
Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin - who spent 22 years in prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard - now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at Columbia University's School of Social Work, The Post has learned.
Boudin, 69, this year won another academic laurel - being named the Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School, where last month she gave a lecture on "the politics of parole and re-entry."
Boudin's bounce-back into respectability after her 2003 parole comes to light a week before the release of Robert Redford's movie "The Company You Keep," loosely based on the $1.6 million heist.
Boudin's 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.
"She doesn't deserve a job at all," said Josephine Paige, 74, when told of Boudin's posts. "She doesn't deserve anything, nothing at all. I think she should be back in an institution."
John Hanchar, the nephew of another victim of the robbery, Nyack Police Officer Edward O'Grady, said that while Boudin "has a right to do whatever she wants . . . I just hope the people that she's lecturing are smart enough to question why [she felt] like killing people is an acceptable choice to forward their goals."
"It's easy to forget that violence is never the answer. Nine children grew up without their dads because of her actions," said Hanchar, whose uncle O'Grady 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.
Columbia School of Social Work Associate Dean Marianne Yoshioka, who hired Boudin for the adjunct-professor post in 2008, said she has been "an excellent teacher who gets incredible evaluations from her students each year."
I can only wonder what Boudin’s position is on Obama's gun control? Does she support Barry's quest to ban “assault” weapons?
Our system is definitely broken!
absolutely disgusting
Teaching there, no, she should be used as an example and hung by the street light with a sign that says: this is what happens to bombers and killers.
What is beyond irony, this is the same group that was planning on setting off bombs at Columbia and also Ft Dix I believe.
She’s a murderous anti-American communist bitch from hell.
IOW, she’ll be a perfect fit for Columbia. See the above video to explore the Columbia link.
Cuss a B ball player that won't move his feet,... get fired.
Yeah,....Hope and Change, I get it now.
Give me a good evaluation or I’ll kill ya.
There was an excellent book about Kathy Boudin’s criminal background entitled “Family Circle: The Boudins and the Aristocracy of the Left,” published in 2004. I read the book when it first came out, and is highly recommended if you want to know more about the Weather Underground members who are now in prominent positions in universities, and still dedicated to the violent overthrow of the USG.
Amazon.com has a “new condition” hardback for lesss than one dollar plus shipping. Get it and know more about your leftist enemies. Would make a great gift to members of Young Americans for Freedom, etc.
Thank you, I will order it. And I want to remind everyone, one more time, that Kathy Boudin has direct ties to Fidel Castro.
Columbia seems like Ground Zero for the worst kinds of filth that occupy the American Academy. That’s not to day that other “institutions” of “higher learning” don’t try to compete but I don’t think there’s anything worse than Columbia, not UC Berkeley, not Harvard, not Billy Boy Ayres’s place, not Santa Cruz not anywhere. Columbia is the worst.
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