[Richard]

How ironic that there are members of this community who think it politically incorrect in agreeing to promulgate a proverbially slippery slope of an idea that our institutions of higher education should adhere to some nebulous concept of "correctness" - the seeming idea that a "correct" curriculum of "correct" readings taught "correctly" by "correct" faculty fostering "correct" ideas for a "correct" society. "Ingsoc" comes to mind for me when such an idea is bantered about.

IMO social activism is a worthy pursuit - how it may be carried out and for what purpose is worth studying, including the raising, educating, thinking and reasoning of a zealously committed activist like Kathy Boudin who, for whatever reason(s), concluded that breaking the law was worth the risk for attaining whatever goal(s) she thought might not be obtained otherwise.

To that end, IMO people should hear her, should openly challenge her, should foster those ideas they find worthy of emulating, and reject and decry those they find unrealistic or abhorrant; but to deny her a voice or employment within the boundaries of the law because we don't agree with some of her ideas or previous behaviors is Orwellian, and the antithesis of what we proclaim ourselves to be amongst the world's nations.

FWIW - Columbia was one of the 6 IHE choices I was given by the Department of the Army for fully-funded graduate schooling as an 18A/48C; for a number of reasons, I chose another of the six. IHE choice (schools, programs, courses) is available to us all...for now.

Richard