Terrorists Honored at CUNY

For years, the City University of New York has been going downhill, and it appears they've finally hit bottom, as they've now named a building after an FALN terrorist and a police killer, both of whom now reside in Cuba.

Naturally, the students and others behind this travesty are utterly clueless.

Students who use the center today were a little fuzzy on who it's named for.

Freshmen Jeimy Gutierrez, 18, and Angela Morel, 17, members of the Student Liberation Action Movement, said they did not know Shakur is a wanted terrorist who killed a New Jersey trooper.

"I'm surprised," said Angela. "I didn't know. I'm going to do some research."

"I'm going to look into it," Gutierrez echoed.

But the center's older advisers know who she is.

Center Director Rodolfo Leyton argues that Shakur was framed.

"The legal system makes mistakes all the time," he said, insisting many black activists were jailed on trumped-up charges.

"She's seen as a hero to most of the people in her community - Harlem, the South Bronx, Brooklyn, wherever people of color are," Leyton said.

The Daily News also editorializes on celebrating killers.

The message to students and to members of the public on the third floor of a main building on the City College campus is loud, clear and abominable.

The message is that, as an institution, CCNY supports, endorses and celebrates the lives and crimes of two fugitive murderers.

The message is that CCNY stands foursquare behind Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, who was convicted in the execution of New Jersey Trooper Werner Foerster and now enjoys life in Cuba.

The message is that CCNY believes wholeheartedly in Guillermo (William) Morales, chief bombmaker of the FALN, which planted explosives that killed six people in New York City in the 1970s.

A sign above Room 3/201 in the North Academic Center proclaims it to be the "Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community and Student Center."

Passersby have every reason to believe City College has bestowed upon Chesimard and Morales the honor of a facility officially dedicated in their names, much as CCNY trumpets the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies. Instead, the sign was slapped on the place by two whacked-out, left-wing organizations, Students for Educational Rights and the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM). But by letting the sign remain, the administration sanctions a shrine to killers.

The FALN should sound familiar. Recall Bill Clinton pardoned a bunch of them.