Outrage 101: Radical jailed in slay now Columbia prof
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/outrage_puQlvJIeZxsT7nFZds0HIJ
By LARRY CELONA and DAN MANGAN
Last Updated: 3:34 AM, April 2, 2013
Posted: 2:48 AM, April 2, 2013
EXCLUSIVE
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.
KATHY BOUDIN Teaches about ex-cons.
KATHY BOUDIN Teaches about ex-cons.
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.
Of the hundreds of students Boudin has taught, Yoshioka said, just three
have expressed qualms about her criminal background, and only one "switched
out" of a class because of those concerns.
One Friday, a criminal-justice conference at the school will feature keynote
address by Angela Davis, another infamous radical, and later this month
Boudin is scheduled to speak at Columbia Law School's conference on child
and family advocacy.
"I'm happy that she's doing something positive with her life," said Robert
Van Cura, Rockland County's undersheriff. But he said, "I believe there's
probably other people that are available to provide education beyond someone
who is on parole for murder."
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."
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