Columbia University hires former Weather Undergound convict
 

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.....

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

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.

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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? :confused:

And so it goes...

Richard :munchin

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.

Libs love WU members, especially Ayers and Dohrn.

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

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.

Prominent?

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.

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. :confused:

Richard :munchin

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

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

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