Ryan James Girdusky has written a guest post at The Other McCain in which he examines the alarmingly high number of domestic terrorists teaching on college campuses.

Domestic Terrorists Teaching At Colleges?

Controversy ensued when the news broke that Kathy Boudin, former member of the Weather Underground who was convicted in 1984 of felony murder, received the position of adjunct professor at Columbia University.  While it may be ironic that Boudin received a teaching position at a university she was plotted to bomb, she is not the only former domestic terrorist to receive such a position.

At least a dozen former members of domestic terrorist organizations are now college professors. Members of the Weather Underground make up half of this list; some are well known, like Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn, Ayers is now retired from the University of Illinois, while Dohrn is still teaching at Northwestern Law.

Other lesser-known members of the group include Howard Machtinger, who was charged with conspiring to bomb the Detroit Police Officers Association Building and was on the run from the law for five years from 1973 to 1978. Machtinger now works for the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Another Weatherman alumni, Mark Naison, has been a professor at Fordham University for 43 years.  His time in the Weatherman was brief; he was a part of SDS and was part of the Columbia University occupation in 1967 and 1968.  He was arrested for those protests as well as for a bar fight in 1969.  Naison left the Weatherman after his last arrest, for fear he was putting his life in danger.