Posted on 08/10/2012 5:47:21 PM PDT by Western Phil
Sounds premeditated to me.
Additional info from the article: “Holmes’ GRE quantitative score was 800 (94th percentile), his verbal score was 710 (98th percentile), and he had an analytical writing score of 4 (45th percentile), according to his UI application. His GPA was 3.94 out of 4.00, according to the application.”
I am removed from academia enough that this is not real meaningful to me, but the analytical writing score seems strange.
I had a job when I was 18 years old as a night attendant in an insane asylum.
Yes, that is true, it was over 40 years ago.
I learned early on that it was a complete and utter waste of time and resources
to try to “understand” why crazy people are crazy.
This would suggest that if Holmes was "crazy"
it only occurred at CU Denver under Dr. Lynn Fenton.Perhaps she was giving him Psychotropic drugs.
but when an otherwise demonstrably intelligent person does something “insane”, you look for an explanation.
James E. Holmes resume: http://www.news-gazette.com/pdf/2012-08-10/james-e-holmes-resume.html
References letters for James E. Holmes: http://www.news-gazette.com/pdf/2012-08-10/james-e-holmes-resume.html
U of I acceptance letter: http://www.news-gazette.com/pdf/2012-08-10/ui-acceptance-letter-james-holmes.html
“Guy’s a first-class nutcase whackjob? Fantastic! Admit him to the program, put him on a full scholarship, and get him in one of the government programs too!”
My big question...when and what kind of meds has he EVER taken???
Mental illness s treated "experimentally" all the time. My cousin, female" was on six different kinds. Finally, her sisters who lived nearby (this is in California) called their mother in NYS. The mother hopped a plane. Saw the condition of her daughter. Toldthe doctor to go to hell and foud another doctor who apparently had better judgement in meds. My niece will never be quite right....she's just slow...bt at least she's stable. Mom and hubby have since moved to California to be by the daughters.
info on analytical writing
http://www.ets.org/gre/revised_general/prepare/analytical_writing/
How do you score so low on that as compared to others.
How does U of I compare to Colorado?
http://chronicle.com/article/NRC-Rankings-Overview-/124747/
Colorado is higher
“...but when an otherwise demonstrably intelligent person does something insane, you look for an explanation...”
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Nope, not me.
Crazy is crazy.
I’ve been around too many of them.
There is no explanation worth pursuing.
All you need to know is the sum-beech was crazy.
That’s all.
Can someone explain to me why the booking report on Holmes would say he had brown hair. Wouldn’t you have to put red or orange.
I am removed from academia enough that this is not real meaningful to me, but the analytical writing score seems strange.
OTOH, we know more about his academic record than we will ever know about Obama's...
http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/aurora-massacre-james-holmes-mug
Interesting read on Holmes Mugshot.
So why was he in an orange jumpsuit in the mugshot?
Paraphrasing a writer I cannot remember:
Normal people are normal in the same way; crazy people are crazy in a million different ones.
Leo Tolstoy’s book Anna Karenina, which begins:
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Although I think your paraphrase is equally true.
I’m going to guess they stripped searched him and put his clothes into evidence bags before they took his prints and mugshot.
Which seems perfectly sensible after a mass shooting.
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