shooting at University of Alabama... don't understand

kacram

16 years ago

how people can do this. don't get it.

A professor shoots others at a faculty meeting.

Here is a link that might be useful: U of A Huntsville shooting

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Rudebekia
16 years ago
Very sad, but there are nut cases at universities too, of course. The issue of tenure can be extremely tense and can set some people off. A number of years ago a young professor (35ish) at my university dropped dead of a major heart attack on the day his tenure case was decided.
glenda_al
16 years ago
If you saw her picture, her eyes make your cringe.

Shooting was not on main campus, Tuscaloosa, but in Huntsville.

Still a tragedy, no matter where.

Bishop, a neurobiologist who studied at Harvard University, joined the UAH biology faculty as an assistant professor in fall 2003. She was taken Friday night in handcuffs from a police precinct to the county jail and could be heard saying, "It didn't happen. There's no way. ... They are still alive."

Police said they were also interviewing a man as "a person of interest."
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bigfoot_liz
16 years ago
having taught at the university level i can see this does happen. you would be very surprised at how political the university system is. it was 15 yrs ago and i'm sure it's far worse now, all about the business end of it. tenure should be done away w/ and that would dramatically change education in this country. it's akin to having a pathetic employee that you pay the most, who does the least (if anything at all, seriously) and you can never fire and you pay till they die. i have seen exactly this thru my 10 yrs in college, my 5 yrs teaching at the university level plus now w/ my DH who has been back at college for yrs now w/ 1.5 yrs left on an honors BS/MS engineering degree. actually the stories i hear from DH and his friends about prof's, TA's and staff is quite shocking. it's a miracle there aren't more incidents like this between students and the previously mentioned staff.

i do find it surprising that a prof brought a gun on campus thou...maybe they are allowed in AL??? ~ liz
mariend
16 years ago
I personally think tenure should be done away with- or at least modified. There are too many people with tenure that should not even be in the field.
cheekybones
16 years ago
Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the massacre on the campus of my alma mater. It still stops my heart to think about it. Healing thoughts to all.
dotmom
16 years ago
GUNS AGAIN In my estimation, the world would be a much better place if ALL guns would disappear.This is another tragedy where killing can be done from a distance, thanks to guns, and I don't want anyone try to give me that NRA BS about guns don't kill people....blah, blah, blah. JMO!! Dottie
molly109
16 years ago
"i do find it surprising that a prof brought a gun on campus thou...maybe they are allowed in AL??? ~ liz"

I don't imagine that they search all their professors,
do they?

I teach at a University and I find it unbelievable that
you think it is a miracle that these kinds of things
don't happen more often. Did you teach as a tenured
Professor? Were there lots of unstable professors
there?

Not that that matters, of course. But a sad, sad,
situation caused by, sounds like a very unstable person.

You would probably be interested in reading what
Dr. Gee, President of Ohio State University has to
say about Tenure. Very interesting and intelligent
man.
molly109
16 years ago
The article I read stated that tenure wasn't denied
because of lack of research, or big business, etc.,
it was because she was a poor teacher.

The article went on to say that there had been numerous
complaints about her by students.

Still sad, sad, though.
petaloid
16 years ago
In the video showing her being taken to the police car she seemed spaced out, insisting it hadn't really happened and that the people weren't dead.

It looks like she is mentally ill.
chisue
16 years ago
The story I just read online said that 20 years ago she killed her (then) teenage brother in her bedroom in Braintree, Mass. She fired three shots, one of which struck him in the chest.

The line between brilliant and mad can be thin.
marilyn_c
16 years ago
Sorry to steer this away from the subject, but, dotmom, everyone doesn't live in a place where it is safe not to have a gun. I am alone in the country and it typically takes at the minimum of 45 min. for sheriff dept. to get out here...and I feel safer with a gun than if I had to depend on conking someone over the head with a cast iron skillet.

I agree...this is a tragedy. Another senseless killing of innocent people.

shooting at University of Alabama... don't understand

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