tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post5421955923679370902..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: Shot over bad grades?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-35428414355241529442016-06-06T09:41:08.425-04:002016-06-06T09:41:08.425-04:00Thank goodness the gun-free policy worked:
http://...Thank goodness the gun-free policy worked:<br />http://www.adminpolicies.ucla.edu/pdf/131.pdf<br /><br />Sad story all the way around.The Gognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-18603428562455546812016-06-03T19:23:19.447-04:002016-06-03T19:23:19.447-04:00He apparently also killed his estranged wife, and ...He apparently also killed his estranged wife, and had another professor (who was off campus) on his list of people to kill. So whatever was going on with him, it seems to have been a bit more than a single academic dispute. Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-70884149874746145872016-06-03T19:16:57.107-04:002016-06-03T19:16:57.107-04:00Aha! Thank you! I was thinking there was a Cal T...Aha! Thank you! I was thinking there was a Cal Tech connection (because I think I heard about it from a CT graduate), but it sounds like his Director of Graduate Studies moved on to Cal Tech: https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19870329&id=m5McAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NGMEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6914,6189418 . The arrest would have been relatively recent news when I began grad school; Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-65289241713174305992016-06-03T08:47:40.458-04:002016-06-03T08:47:40.458-04:00A faculty member with corresponding email address ...A faculty member with corresponding email address tells us that it was an intellectual property dispute that was heated and well known internally.College Miseryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01371354682300032653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-14051269284115648842016-06-02T18:31:58.347-04:002016-06-02T18:31:58.347-04:00The Teabag Poisoner was in Princeton:
Link to Phi...The Teabag Poisoner was in Princeton: <br /><a href="http://articles.philly.com/1987-03-24/news/26219028_1_cyanide-tea-bag-arrest" rel="nofollow">Link to Philly.com article about it</a>Debbie Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08284084674181575797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-79220347213853600192016-06-02T17:10:32.302-04:002016-06-02T17:10:32.302-04:00Some of the last classes I taught were in 2007, wh...Some of the last classes I taught were in 2007, when the Virginia Tech shootings occurred. I remember being very, very afraid that term... even before it happened. The students were so ... incapable? ... of doing basic college-level work. I had problems with them doing research, double-spacing papers, following directions, even just simple paying attention. Not all of them, mind you, but tooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-13496552321101571912016-06-02T16:02:21.280-04:002016-06-02T16:02:21.280-04:00I do remember that case (vaguely). I'm pretty...I do remember that case (vaguely). I'm pretty sure there was at least an attempt at advisor-poisoning-by-teabag, too (it might not have succeeded). <br /><br />One of the issues, of course, is that we tend to let students (even those who seem a little off -- perhaps especially those who seem a little off) to get quite physically close to us, including in one-on-one situations, without a Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-24155660580324592252016-06-02T15:57:47.456-04:002016-06-02T15:57:47.456-04:00The hammer/nail argument makes a lot of sense to m...The hammer/nail argument makes a lot of sense to me, too. I'm just not sure what to do about the proliferation of hammers, legally and illegally obtained, and the foaming-at-the-mouth support for hammer-carrying by all. <br /><br />It's enough to make one feel all too much like a potential nail. Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-74680076992709765872016-06-02T13:33:38.703-04:002016-06-02T13:33:38.703-04:00Yes, OPH, that was my feeling, that its increased ...Yes, OPH, that was my feeling, that its increased availability will increase these types of incidents akin to the concept of "if you have a hammer, you are more likely to view a problem as a nail".Prof Poopieheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997969128824319914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-40004024253053743432016-06-02T11:41:59.692-04:002016-06-02T11:41:59.692-04:00Cassandra -- You're probably remembering Ted S...Cassandra -- You're probably remembering Ted Streleski, a Stanford math grad student (of 19 years!) who killed his advisor with a ball peen hammer. So gun control isn't necessarily the answer . . . .Finnfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02282896112304604873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-30826632906017293042016-06-02T10:24:58.361-04:002016-06-02T10:24:58.361-04:00I think the narcissism we've been cultivating ...I think the narcissism we've been cultivating (as a society) is behind this trend of "my problems are more important than anyone else's and I deserve extreme justice." I also think guns are but one factor, and this WILL take decades to fix.Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-30508667615801379392016-06-02T10:19:56.416-04:002016-06-02T10:19:56.416-04:00Well, California IS the nation's trendsetter.
...Well, California IS the nation's trendsetter.<br /><br />Poopiehead, I'm not sure the mindset that commits premeditated murder, suicide, or both is sensitive to those laws. But then again, the barrier between thinking it and doing it is substantially lowered when the tool is already in one's backpack, so some hotheads who in the past would have just wrote something scathing on the Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-15004805946636431542016-06-02T09:13:45.506-04:002016-06-02T09:13:45.506-04:00If it can happen even in California, then it'l...If it can happen even in California, then it'll happen more often... 'let's see, do I have everything I need in my backpack? laptop, check. notebook and pen, check. lunch, check. handgun, check.'Prof Poopieheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997969128824319914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-87227435242562313742016-06-02T08:47:31.805-04:002016-06-02T08:47:31.805-04:00If it can happen in California, then how much do g...If it can happen in California, then how much do gun regulations matter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-20263387891459339972016-06-02T08:41:11.056-04:002016-06-02T08:41:11.056-04:00I'm not really surprised, either. And I don...I'm not really surprised, either. And I don't know what the solution is, since calls for greater gun regulation/restriction just seem to result in strenuous protest/pushback, and there are so many guns already circulating in the U.S. that it seems likely to take decades, if not centuries, for any limitation to have much effect. <br /><br />In some ways, it just feels like the dangers of Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-49276237513647086302016-06-02T08:31:31.071-04:002016-06-02T08:31:31.071-04:00And it'll happen more often as more and more s...And it'll happen more often as more and more states pass laws allowing students to bring guns onto campuses.Prof Poopieheadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00997969128824319914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-2818086794669611672016-06-02T05:37:10.811-04:002016-06-02T05:37:10.811-04:00I'm kind of surprised this type of thing doesn...I'm kind of surprised this type of thing doesn't happen more often.Southern Bubba, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12050992903794385204noreply@blogger.com