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Ala. prof bemoaned tenure denial, quiet about past
hosted ^ | Feb 15 | DESIREE HUNTER and KRISTIN M. HALL

Posted on 02/15/2010 6:20:12 AM PST by JoeProBono

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.- Amy Bishop kept quiet about a violent episode in her past around colleagues and students at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. But there was one personal issue she didn't mind loudly complaining about: being denied tenure.

Still, those who knew her said the woman accused of shooting six colleagues had never suggested she might become violent. Everyone from family and friends to her students said the intelligent and at times awkward teacher seemed normal in the hours before police say she opened fire in a faculty meeting Friday afternoon, leaving three dead and three wounded.....

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TOPICS: Education; Local News; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: ala; amybishop; crime; education; jpb; murder; psycho; tenure
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To: 6SJ7

She probably didn’t make tenure because she has a screw loose. Academia is very political and the “gatekeepers” probably wanted to rid themselves of her.


21 posted on 02/15/2010 6:46:57 AM PST by goseminoles
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To: JoeProBono

These murders remind of murders that happened at the University of Iowa some years back when some math or physics professor was denied tenure. He shot and killed a number of his colleagues. The moral of the story: be in another country when you send the notice about denial of tenure to a prospective candidate. It appears a number of these people are seriously disturbed.


22 posted on 02/15/2010 6:50:30 AM PST by driftless2 (for long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: goseminoles
IMO she didn't make tenure at UAH because she openly criticized the Dean's decision to make Freshmen and Sophomores live on campus.
23 posted on 02/15/2010 6:50:46 AM PST by proudofthesouth (Zero should spend all his time playing golf & keep his Marxist, Muzzie, Homo hands off our country)
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To: Dudoight

Attorney General Delahunt pulled the political strings and made sure there was NO investigation in the murder of her brother.


24 posted on 02/15/2010 6:51:41 AM PST by Carley (Are you better off now than one year ago? HELL NO!!!!!)
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To: nuconvert

The youngest is in the 3rd grade.


25 posted on 02/15/2010 6:52:31 AM PST by cookiedough
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To: cookiedough

That’s too bad.
Thanx


26 posted on 02/15/2010 6:56:07 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: KosmicKitty

They should check her behavior to boyfriends before her marriage. I would not want to be a boyfriend who broke up with her. She would likely perpetuate a violent act. I think she has a revenge mindset that she must get even. These type of people are very dangerous because they appear normal.


27 posted on 02/15/2010 6:57:42 AM PST by businessprofessor
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To: Carley

I’ve been away for a few days. Do you have a link to a story about it?


28 posted on 02/15/2010 6:58:42 AM PST by SeaHawkFan
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To: 6SJ7
The hairdo doesn’t help.

The first thing my husband said when he got a look at her was that she should have gone after her hairdresser too

(He's so bad!!!)

29 posted on 02/15/2010 7:01:28 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: y'all
Police say the gun she's accused of using in the Alabama shooting wasn't registered

Are they supposed to be registered?

30 posted on 02/15/2010 7:01:38 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: JoeProBono

Reported on news this morning that she mailed a bomb to someone at Harvard and nothing ever came of it. Wow, to skate through life getting away with literally murder.


31 posted on 02/15/2010 7:04:24 AM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: Dudoight

She obviously has serious psychiatric dysfunction.

Being a “Liberal Professor” :-(((( should explain, and be the sum of the whole content of her life.

Look for the proctors of the Left to start defending this Libtard.


32 posted on 02/15/2010 7:04:30 AM PST by buck61
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To: autumnraine

A charter member of the Bernadine Dorhn Fan Club.


33 posted on 02/15/2010 7:05:38 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: nuconvert

I read they were aged 9 to 18 or 9 to 19, four of them.


34 posted on 02/15/2010 7:06:27 AM PST by Qwackertoo (I'm really thrilled that Scott Brown WON Big Time Last Night)
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To: stainlessbanner

I read she didn’t have a carry permit and they didn’t know where she obtained the gun from. Didn’t hear anything about “registering”. I don’t think that is required.


35 posted on 02/15/2010 7:08:25 AM PST by Qwackertoo (I'm really thrilled that Scott Brown WON Big Time Last Night)
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To: JoeProBono

It seems to me - that each time in her life when she felt threatened by someone - 1) accomplished brother 2) Harvard Doctor who could jeopardize her PhD and finally 3) the faculty of the Biology Dept. at UAH..... She had the same solution (eliminate the “threat”).... Unfortunately for the 6 victims at UAH - she was never held accountable before Friday - in fact - her life went along quite smoothly...investigation of brother’s killing was dropped, investigation of the pipe bomb was never solved.....
Her parents’ home can be seen here:
http://i45.tinypic.com/esp1tk.jpg


36 posted on 02/15/2010 7:09:34 AM PST by Momto2 (You don't drown because you fall in the water - you drown because you stay there (Anon.))
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To: Momto2

Wow nice house.


37 posted on 02/15/2010 7:11:13 AM PST by Qwackertoo (I'm really thrilled that Scott Brown WON Big Time Last Night)
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To: nuconvert

I heard from 9 to 18 years old (4 children) - How sad for them :(


38 posted on 02/15/2010 7:11:32 AM PST by Momto2 (You don't drown because you fall in the water - you drown because you stay there (Anon.))
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Find and watch the X-Files episode titled Eve from the shows first season. The antagonist is a highly educated, psychotic geneticist who looks quite a bit like Dr. Bishop...


39 posted on 02/15/2010 7:14:12 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Qwackertoo

Yeah - makes the “cover up” of the brother’s killing even more plausible doesn’t it? The rich seem to be able to get these things done .... what is most troubling is the paperwork is “missing” on the case....and I think during the years when this happened....her mother was working in some capacity for the police force or the local government (forgot the particulars on that)....


40 posted on 02/15/2010 7:14:59 AM PST by Momto2 (You don't drown because you fall in the water - you drown because you stay there (Anon.))
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