Posted on 02/18/2010 8:33:27 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
The Alabama biology professor accused of killing three colleagues in a campus shooting was working on a novel that contained eerie similarities to her own life.
Amy Bishop, charged with opening fire Friday at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, had an unpublished manuscript for a book titled "Amazon Fever," obtained by the Boston Globe, that focuses on a female scientist, Olivia, who struggles with depression and fears losing tenure.
Bishop was denied tenure late last year, though police have yet to identify a motive in the killings.
Her book refers to the University of Alabama as the MIT of the South, and one character, James Anderson — also the name of Bishop's husband — is a genetic sequencer at the university, the Globe reported.
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MIT of the South????
Harrrumph.
Hotty Toddy...
MM
Is the book a comedy?
Bizarre.
If she squeaks by with an insanity defense she’ll have lots and lots of time in a looney bin to pen her wacky works.
Of course the school she taught at was the “M.I.T. of the South”, they had HER working there, didn't they?
Recall what she said as she punched a woman in the head at an IHOP over her DARING to use the last booster seat for her child instead of giving it to her “I am Dr. Amy Bishop!”
Uh, yeah, crazy lady. And you being a Bio professor means people have to give you what you want? You think you are some sort of ‘rock star’ bio professor?
Delusional. Sociopathic. Megalomaniac.
PROZAC, PROZAC, PROZAC. Columbine... etc. ad infinitum. Just a coincidence, of course.
iirc, U. of Alabama has a number of outstanding scientists such as Dr. David Agresti.
PROZAC, PROZAC, PROZAC. Columbine... etc. ad infinitum. Just a coincidence, of course.
I’m not knocking UA — I’ve got a number of relatives who have matriculated there, or who are there right now.
Different school. She worked at University of Alabama Huntsville. It is different than The University of Alabama, 2009 College Football Champion!
I am not sure she will “squeak”. She may “sail” from what I have heard. This woman is wrapped way too tight.
parsy, who wonders what all meds she was on
Leni
NASA dropped the ball by not making this gal one of their astronauts !
And how many Football Championships did M.I.T. ever win?
Picking your school based upon the performance of their football squad! Now THAT is education! ;)
She goes so far in her criticism of Harvard and Boston's "snotty bartenders" as to post the phone number of "a talk show" FIVE times in one paragraph. In real life, that number -- 617-432-5555 -- is the Harvard Medical School's confidential Research Compliance Hotline.
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. . . .
You mean “supposed to be on,” right? ‘Cause she sure as heck wasn’t taking them.
That’s funny because I frequently hear MIT referred to as the “UAH of the north” ;-)
It seems clear a state university would be her only choice, probably for the pension benefit.
Private schools were great for her back when she had the free ride -most likely.
I heard she applied for the female astronaut program, but couldn't pass the endurance drive from Houston to Orlando without stopping to relieve herself.
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