Some Northwestern University alumni are withholding donations after learning former Weather Underground radical Bernadine Dohrn is on the law school faculty. She has been on the faculty for 10 years, but nobody complained until the recent release of a memoir her husband wrote about their days with the Weathermen. Dohrn once was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. She served seven months in prison for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating a 1981 armored truck robbery in Nyack, N.Y., in which two police officers were killed. Northwestern said it will lose about $11,300 this year because of Dohrn, who is also director of its Children and Family Justice Center. One law school graduate demanded and received a refund of his $1,000 donation, and 14 others informed the school they will withhold donations. The estimated loss is a fraction of the $67.5 million that Northwestern received from alumni in the last fiscal year.
Radical Costs
Some Northwestern University alumni are withholding donations after learning former Weather Underground radical Bernadine Dohrn is on the law school faculty. She has been on the faculty for 10 years, but nobody complained until the recent release of a memoir her husband wrote about their days with the Weathermen. Dohrn once was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. She served seven months in prison for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating a 1981 armored truck robbery in Nyack, N.Y., in which two police officers were killed. Northwestern said it will lose about $11,300 this year because of Dohrn, who is also director of its Children and Family Justice Center. One law school graduate demanded and received a refund of his $1,000 donation, and 14 others informed the school they will withhold donations. The estimated loss is a fraction of the $67.5 million that Northwestern received from alumni in the last fiscal year.
