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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Another Embarrassment for Columbia University ?

Isn't it amazing how many young radicals from the 1960s are now to be found in our universiites teaching our youth?

"Uhhhh.......yeaaaaah."

From Angela Davis and Bettina Aptheker at UC Santa Cruz (America's Wackiest University)  to Bill Ayres at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Bernadine Dohrn at the University of Chicago Northwestern, to Ron Karenga.at Long  Beach State, it seems our universities have become refuges not only for newly-ground out misfit PhDs, but an older generation of 60s-era crazies who often crossed the line into violence and crime to vent their anger at the system. Now we can add Kathy Boudin to that list. She is teaching at Columbia, an institution that already has enough misfits.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/02/former-weather-underground-radical-jailed-in-181-killing-reportedly-now/?test=latestnews

It would appear that her role as getaway driver was not the only contributing factor to the deaths that resulted from the robbery.

I have a couple of questions: It can be argued that Boudine has paid her debt to society and now deserves the chance to earn an honest living. It is possible she is rehabilitated. I get that. What is not stated is any degree of remorse for her actions and what she is teaching her students at Columbia. Does she still harbor the same beliefs toward her country that led her to join the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army? In other words, what is it exactly that she is teaching her students?


3 comments:

Siarlys Jenkins said...

If you don't know what she is teaching her students, or even the title of the course, your outrage is poorly supported.

P.S. Last I knew, Bernardine Dohrn's primary job is administering a highly regarded legal program for children at Northwestern University, not University of Chicago.

But we agree on Ron Karenga. As a fan of the original Black Panther Party, I have nothing but contempt for Karenga, which is why I NEVER celebrate Kwaanza.

Gary Fouse said...

Correctamundo. Dohrn is at NW

Siarlys Jenkins said...

I agreed with Gary twice in one day, and three times in one week. (There was also the matter of Wrigley Field).