Columbia University hires former Weather Undergound convict

[Streck-Fu]

I wasn't sure if this should go into Soapbox or (dark) Comedy......



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Kathy Boudin, an ex-Weather Underground radical who spent time in prison for a dramatic armed-car robbery that left two police officers and security guard dead, has a new gig: adjunct professor at Columbia University.

She’s going to be teaching specifically in the university’s School of Social Work, the New York Post reports.

Ms. Boudin spent 22 years behind bars for driving the getaway car during the heist and was paroled in 2003. Now 69, she’s switched her career of crime for one of academics. She’s also the Sheinberg scholar-in-residence at New York University Law School, the Post reports.

I'm trying to think of someone that attended Columbia and associated with members of WU....can't........quite.......place .......it.....

[SF18C]

This is not a surprise anymore! And that is the really terrible thing!

[JJ_BPK]

Kathy Boudin, an ex-Weather Underground radical who .......

She’s going to be teaching specifically in the university’s School of Social Work, the New York Post reports.

I'm sure this POS will be using her thesis (How to Kill PIGS, and get away with it, An AAR) for the class curriculum...

[Richard]

I really don't see the umbrage with this.

She drove the getaway car for a robbery, served 22 years of a 75 year sentence in prison as an accessory, and was honorably paroled.

She now lectures to future social workers and lawyers on the parole system and the issues facing convicts and their families when a person is released from prison. She sounds far more qualified to do so than any of us or - perhaps - many other professors who teach the same subject material. I would imagine her personal vignettes on her experiences with the NY prison and parole systems would make for some interesting lectures.

Dr. Kathy Boudin has been an educator and counselor with experience in program development since 1964, working within communities with limited resources to solve social problems, and supporting individuals to overcome their own odds and develop a sense of strength and direction. Dr. Boudin has focused her work on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and criminal justice issues including women in prison; mother-child relationships and parenting from a distance; adolescent relationships with incarcerated parents; restorative justice, and higher education and basic literacy inside correctional institutions.

Dr. Boudin is employed by the Center for Comprehensive Care, HIV AIDS Center, at St. Lukes Roosevelt Hospital where she is developing programs related to health care for people who are HIV Positive and counseling patients individually and in groups. She is currently a consultant to the Osborne Association in the development of a Longtermers Responsibility Project taking place in the New York State Correctional Facilities utilizing a restorative practice approach. Dr. Boudin also has been a consultant for Vermont Corrections, the Women’s Prison Association, and Family Justice.
She has provided training and supervision to social workers as they work with individual people in prison.

She received her Ed.D. from Columbia University, Teachers College.

http://socialwork.columbia.edu/facul...y/kathy-boudin

She sounds like a model of what our prison system aims to do and often seems to fail at doing - punishing and then rehabilitating.

According to the accepted rules of our society, she's paid her debt - do we now deny her the ability to seek meaningful employment vs being a 'ward' of the state and yet another taxpayer borne burden?

And so it goes...

Richard

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by Richard

I really don't see the umbrage with this.

She drove the getaway car for a robbery, served 22 years of a 75 year sentence in prison as an accessory, and was honorably paroled.

And so it goes...

Richard

Richard tell that to the wives and kids that were left without a father she helped murder. She should rot in prison for the rest of her life and not be teaching children.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Streck-Fu

I wasn't sure if this should go into Soapbox or (dark) Comedy......



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I'm trying to think of someone that attended Columbia and associated with members of WU....can't........quite.......place .......it.....

Libs love WU members, especially Ayers and Dohrn.

[The Reaper]

Richard, look it up, she is a convicted murderess, regardless of her role in the crime.

I don't think you should be teaching at a prominent university with that on your resume.

TR

[Paslode]

Wiki has a better bio on Kathy Boudin than Columbia....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Boudin


She is part of a gene pool that should have been eradicated, not educating Americas future.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Paslode

Wiki has a better bio on Kathy Boudin than Columbia....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Boudin


She is part of a gene pool that should have been eradicated, not educating Americas future.

What a name! Boudin. Means pig guts.

[MR2]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

I don't think you should be teaching at a prominent university with that on your resume.

Prominent?

[sinjefe]

Originally Posted by Richard

I really don't see the umbrage with this.

She drove the getaway car for a robbery, served 22 years of a 75 year sentence in prison as an accessory, and was honorably paroled.

She now lectures to future social workers and lawyers on the parole system and the issues facing convicts and their families when a person is released from prison. She sounds far more qualified to do so than any of us or - perhaps - many other professors who teach the same subject material. I would imagine her personal vignettes on her experiences with the NY prison and parole systems would make for some interesting lectures.



She sounds like a model of what our prison system aims to do and often seems to fail at doing - punishing and then rehabilitating.

According to the accepted rules of our society, she's paid her debt - do we now deny her the ability to seek meaningful employment vs being a 'ward' of the state and yet another taxpayer borne burden?

And so it goes...

Richard

Just because our criminal justice system let us down by not putting her in prison for life or giving her the death penalty doesn't mean she deserves life as normal or forgiveness. From reading up on her, she doesn't seem too sorry. F--- her. Sympathy for her is misguided. The victims families deserve it.

[Richard]

As I see it...

She was a militant radical who broke the law.
She was caught and sentenced IAW the provisions of the law.
She was considered to be duly punished IAW the provisions of the law.
She was considered to be rehabilitated IAW the provisions of the law.
She was paroled IAW the provisions of the law.
She is earning a living by assisting/mentoring/teaching adults in specific areas for which she is especially trained and qualified IAW the provisions of the law.

Damn those pesky 'rule of law' principles - rule according to law; rule under law; and rule according to a higher law - upon which our nation proclaims its founding and continued existence.

Personally, I wonder how she reconciles the reality of her past behaviors with her continued existence. Penance, perhaps.

Richard

[Sigaba]

Originally Posted by Paslode

She is part of a gene pool that should have been eradicated, not educating Americas future.

Controlling crime through genetic parsing is a controversial notion, if not also revealing.

[The Reaper]

Originally Posted by Richard

As I see it...

She was a militant radical who broke the law.
She was caught and sentenced IAW the provisions of the law.
She was considered to be duly punished IAW the provisions of the law.
She was considered to be rehabilitated IAW the provisions of the law.
She was paroled IAW the provisions of the law.
She is earning a living by assisting/mentoring/teaching adults in specific areas for which she is especially trained and qualified IAW the provisions of the law.

Damn those pesky 'rule of law' principles - rule according to law; rule under law; and rule according to a higher law - upon which our nation proclaims its founding and continued existence.

Personally, I wonder how she reconciles the reality of her past behaviors with her continued existence. Penance, perhaps.

Richard

So any inmate who completed their sentence and who has the appropriate degree is qualified to be a professor?

I personally don't see much, if any concern about penance from her.

She, and her faculty cohorts probably chalk it up to youthful indiscretion.

TR

[SF18C]

Originally Posted by Richard

As I see it...


She is earning a living by assisting/mentoring/teaching adults in specific areas for which she is especially trained and qualified IAW the provisions of the law.

Richard

I wonder how the other people in the running for that job, that didn't kill anyone, feel about Boudin's selection?