"I've heard of Dred, but what the hell is Scott?"
She apparently has experience in braiding to create a hangman's knot.
According to a google search, she was being investigated for plagiarism for at least 18 months before she was fired. The noose showed up on her door in October 2007. She was fired in February 2008. She obviously had info that she was under investigation all that time, and formulated the noose idea in a last-ditch attempt to gain sympathy as a victim. Now she wants compensation for her own dirty deeds. And she'll probably get it. I can't say I'm unhappy for Columbia. I hate to see her get anything, but it does my heart good to see Columbia dragged through the mud.