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« Clogspotting | Main | Baudrillard debate continues » Wednesday, April 11, 2007Brandeis girls gone wildOn March 31, alleged Kansas City gang leader Shauntay L. Henderson was arrested shortly after the FBI announced that they'd added her to their Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Last week, Newsweek published a photo gallery of the other seven women who've landed on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Sharp-eyed bloggers have since pointed out that nearly half of these infamous women were graduates of Waltham-based Brandeis University. Can you name all three? (No, pierced and tattooed American novelist Kathy Acker wasn't one of them.) Give up? OK, here they are:  Police claimed that a shotgun used during a lethal 1970 attempt, on the part of the Black Panthers, to free "Soledad Brother" George Jackson during a court appearance in Marin County, Calif., was registered to Davis. Davis, a radical feminist and activist, and an assistant philosophy professor at UCLA, evaded the law for two months, before being arrested and charged with kidnapping, murder, and conspiracy. In 1972, the year that John Lennon's "Angela" and the Rolling Stones' "Sweet Black Angel" advocated for her release, she was exonerated. At Brandeis, she majored in French.  Along with fellow radical feminist and Brandeis undergrad Katherine Ann Power, in 1970 Saxe robbed a National Guard Armory in Newburyport and a branch of the State Street Bank & Trust Company on Western Avenue in Allston. During the getaway, an accomplice of theirs shot and killed a Boston police officer. Saxe was on the lam until she was apprehended in 1975. She served seven years.  Power remained underground until 1993, when she turned herself in. She was released in 1999. She and Saxe were identified by the FBI as members of an unnamed revolutionary group. Police claimed the holdup, which netted $26,000, was carried out by five revolutionaries (two of whom were male prison inmates who were studying at the university under a special release program) to finance their antiwar activities. Posted by Joshua Glenn at 12:54 PM
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