Posted on 02/12/2010 3:31:27 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - Police said a female member of the UA-Huntsville staff shot and killed three co-workers on campus.
Huntsville Police, Madison County Sheriff's department and HEMSI responded to a shooting at the UAH campus at 4:00 Friday afternoon.
The shooting happened in the Shelby Center, a math and science classroom building.
Authorities said a female faculty member during a Biology faculty meeting learned she would not receive tenure. She then pulled out a gun and started shooting.
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All these cop shows fail to tell the victims side of things. I refuse to watch them, they upset me.
Yes - me too! I realize its not always that accurate but as someone stated before - if there are lots of reviews, over a length of time - you get a pretty fair consensus. My son is a college sophomore and I always help him check out this site when he is working on his schedule - all things being equal - if one professor sounds "helpful, easy to work with , etc." and another has lots of comments like "a real nut-case, shouldn't be teaching, doesn't like to answer questions," - we know which one to choose. So far, its been pretty accurate....
Still have many questions about this woman - I read on another site she has 4 children!!!! How dreadful for them :(
Well I kind of figured that...lol...Since this corrupt, all consuming government is controlling everything. No surprise.
So ya see newguy357, it seem the government is also confiscating our money in regards to private schools, and the private schools in reality, are not private at all.
What a racket....When I say government has become an all controlling criminal enterprise, I'm not joking.
Tenure is a freaking joke on the tax payers...That is why those in the private sector, (not subsidized by government) do not have tenure, nor does tenure even exist....
In the real private sector world, people get fired and laid off in the blink of an eye, even good people, that have good work ethics and do a great job....
Not so for government employees that have tenure and government unions behind them.
/sarc/ I just wanted to fault Harvard!
El Gato! Como esta?!
You are chock full of stuff I never knew, and I am glad to learn it. And, how is it that everyone knows a guy named “Big Al?” :-)
In reality, during the times I worked at a university and a junior college as a secretary, I would say hands down the science people were the best. They were smart, real, down to earth, funny and fun. What more can you ask for? I went on a few biology field trips and they are lifetime memories.
Now that you mention it, one of the lab assistants was the most “into guns” person I ever met.
Does anybody who saw the origonal photo remember if this person was wearing a black and white checkered shirt under the green sweater? Because that is how one news source described the shooter, and photos of Dr. Bishop after her arrest show a green pullover-type sweater but no shirt underneath.
“Tenure, does not happen in the private sector.”
It rarely happens outside educational institutions, but it sure happens in almost every private university in the U.S.
Hello PB,
When I said “Extension” I was referring to the Cooperative Extension Service of the USDA. My specific position is a Beef Specialist in which I spend the bulk of my time providing research-based information to beef producers for the state of Kansas as well producers who contact me outside state lines. There are Land Grant Universities in each of the 50 states charged with the dissemination of information to a variety of clientele. FYI, the Cooperative Extension Service was created by the Smith Lever Act in 1914.
Hope this helps.
MFO
When it's time to bury 'em, it's time to dig them up and use them.
That's not to say that having a few caches, here and there, might not be a "Good Idea", if registration is required. But when they start breaking down your door to come get them... Well, they might not come to your house first, giving you an opportunity to retrieve any you've salted away, and put them to the use intended by the founding fathers.
Actually the meetings was not about tenure, at least not hers. She had been notified some time ago. This was to have been her final semester. Now it certainly is.
So,there's a bit more to the story than "professor goes berserk when denied tenure". It still could be about tenure, but it could be about other disputes between her and the department.
That you think *should have been* just for teaching. Research has always been one of the functions of colleges and universities. Pretty much in all fields.
Some institutions evolved from pure research institutes, into full undergrad and graduate universities. One example. The University of Texas at Dallas. AKA "TI-U", although TI was not, and is not, the only corporate supporter.
None of which would have anything to do with any of us.
The losses are far reaching obviously family, coworkers, students.
Years of research that each of these professors were involved in has been halted as well. Plans of students especially those graduating soon with Biology majors are in limbo. You depend on the professors you do research with to give you a strong recommendation to move on to Medical, Veterinarian, Bio Medical higher educations.
Now we heard the killer had killed her brother years before and it was ruled an accident. In hindsight one may ask was it really an accident or murder.
My heart goes out to all those grieving for their lost ones.
I am glad the murderess will be prosecuted this time, as should have been done twenty years ago when she killed her younger brother in cold blood.
Her parents are still living in Braintree, MA. I wonder if they are happy now that they covered up her earlier transgression as an “accident”.
I don't think that would describe where she was, University of Alabama-Huntsville.
But there are plenty of pharmaceutical companies and other such that could use such a person. Heck, they take in lots of ABD (all but degree) types who finish all their coursework, and then give up on what can be a very frustrating process. I know one gal who got so frustrated, and the Enginnering College so "perturbed" with the Prof, that she switched departments. Got her PhD in Engineering Mechanics, instead of Electrical Engineering.
Muy Bueno Gracias
He says, having exhausted about 50% of his Spanish. :)
Once the trial begins, if she does not plead out, the whole story will be told. Oh and for the record, they questioned the husband all day yesterday along with other acquaintances. This will be proven to be premeditated murder.
While it's true she did not get tenure, that was in April. I think it was about something more. What I do not know. It is pretty clear she went there with intent to use the gun. Fat lot of good the "no guns on campus" did her victims.
It doesn't matter which U or C they go to, for that matter it doesn't matter which government school from PreK to Harvard, all they get is indoctrination, and very little 3 R's.
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