Posted on 02/13/2010 2:19:22 PM PST by reaganaut1
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The shootings on the university campus opened a window into the pressure-cooker world of biotechnology start-ups, where scientists often depend on their association with academia for a leg up. Ms. Bishop was part of a start-up that had won an early round of financing in a highly competitive environment, but people who knew her said she had learned shortly before the shooting that she had been denied tenure at the university.
On Friday, Ms. Bishop presided over her regular neuroscience class before going to an afternoon biology faculty meeting on the third floor of the Shelby Center for Science and Technology.
There she sat quietly for about 30 or 40 minutes, said one faculty member who had spoken to people who were in the room. Then Ms. Bishop pulled out a 9-millimeter handgun and began shooting, firing several rounds before her gun either jammed or ran out of ammunition, the police said. At least one person in the room tried to stop Ms. Bishop and prevent further bloodshed, said Sgt. Mark Roberts of the Huntsville Police Department.
After Ms. Bishop left the room, the police said, she dumped the gun — for which she did not have a permit — in a second-floor bathroom. The people left behind barred the door, fearing she would return, the faculty member said.
Ms. Bishop was arrested outside the building minutes later, Sergeant Roberts said at a morning news conference on Saturday.
The 911 call came at 4:10 p.m., the authorities said. Few students were in the building, and none were involved in the shooting, said Ray Garner, a university spokesman.
Officials said the dead were all biology professors: G. K. Podila, the department’s chairman, who is a native of India, according to a family friend who answered the phone at his house
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Denied tenure due to delving into Capilalism no less...can’t mix oil and water.
Uhuh. Whenever I think “academic pressure cooker,” the first thing that comes to mind is the University of Alabama at Huntsville.
HA! They have SOOOOO got her now. She didn’t have a permit for the gun, And i bet there was also a policy against having it on campus!!!! I’d hate to be in her shoes with all the gun laws and school policies she has broken,,,,
http://wbztv.com/local/amy.bishop.braintree.2.1492964.html
end tenure thus the stress..
On the other hand, maybe she just thought it was because there were "no openings," and she made a couple.
My prediction came true within 10 minutes of posting. Now the headline says "A Previous Shooting Death at the Hands of Alabama Suspect".
I’m guessing the people who invested in hubby’s “startup” are experiencing some real-time excitement right about now.
Premeditated murder....?
Married with four children.
Maybe you can’t have it all - without sacrificing a few colleagues.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070820140857/www.uah.edu/colleges/science/biology/amy/amy.htm
It’s true that the academic environment is nuts, but I certainly don’t think you can blame the environment for this. She obviously had it planned in advance; she had appealed the denial of tenure months earlier and she obviously came to the appeals meeting armed and reading to extract revenge on the panel if they upheld the decision.
This is hardly a crime of passion.
Sorry, that would be armed and ready! If she had been reading, all might be well for her victims now...
She murdered her own brother they covered it up files are missing and she was released to her mother. Now we find out she’s in the government run education system teaching your children! Yeah thats normal
Your assertion is nonsense. Universities encourage commercial development through intellectual property agreements. However, the tenure process will not give credit for commercial development. You need to demonstrate research excellence through top journal publications, peer evaluations, and external research funds.
She was also playing campus radical regarding a University policy that did not concern her at all. Undermined her relationship with the provst.
Her behavior has strong precedent. She will not get the same treatment this time. She was a loose cannon ready to erupt. I could see divorce or another major setback causing the same reaction in her.
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