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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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1 posted on 02/15/2010 6:20:12 AM PST by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

eeew - guilty


2 posted on 02/15/2010 6:21:07 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: from occupied ga

“My degree is from Haaaaarvaaard. If you don’t give me tenure, I will murder you. If you were my brother, I did murder you.”


3 posted on 02/15/2010 6:22:25 AM PST by hal ogen
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To: hal ogen

Typical academic attitude if carried a bit to extremes. They’re almost all parasites sucking on the taxpayers’ labor anyway.


4 posted on 02/15/2010 6:29:00 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government,)
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To: JoeProBono

What is it they say, facility lounge politics is so nasty because the stakes are so small. Not always, I suppose.


5 posted on 02/15/2010 6:29:41 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts)
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To: from occupied ga

6 posted on 02/15/2010 6:29:43 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono
According to a story in the Fox News website today, she and her husband were also suspected of sending a pipe bomb in a letter to a Harvard professor.

She does certainly seem to have "issues".

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585854,00.html

7 posted on 02/15/2010 6:29:45 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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8 posted on 02/15/2010 6:31:39 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: from occupied ga

My wife had an uncle who was a biology professor at a non-prestige small college. A wonderful man, full of good cheer and warmth; I bet his first semester students learned more than most kids at prestige schools.

The whole prestige school/research paradigm distorts education and is a disservice to undergraduates.


9 posted on 02/15/2010 6:33:04 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Good Golly!


10 posted on 02/15/2010 6:33:12 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

She looks like she is signal 20(crazy).


11 posted on 02/15/2010 6:33:40 AM PST by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles

She looks like the leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult.


12 posted on 02/15/2010 6:34:29 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: JoeProBono

The hairdo doesn’t help. Perhaps that’s why she didn’t make tenure; that and the shotgun death of her brother, armed robbery, stealing a car, bomb threats, triple murder... now she’ll likely never make tenure.


13 posted on 02/15/2010 6:39:32 AM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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To: JoeProBono

Anyone know the ages of her kids?


14 posted on 02/15/2010 6:39:45 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: proudofthesouth

15 posted on 02/15/2010 6:41:11 AM PST by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: KosmicKitty; JoeProBono

This, from the investigation after the pipe bomb incident, was interesting.....

“During a search of Bishop’s computer, authorities found a draft of a novel that Bishop was writing about a female scientist who had killed her brother and was hoping to make amends by becoming a great scientist, according to a person who was briefed on the investigation and spoke to the Globe on the condition of anonymity.”


16 posted on 02/15/2010 6:44:35 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: JoeProBono

Just think, had they done a thorough investigation in her brother’s death, the lives she took this time might have been saved.

She obviously has serious psychiatric dysfunction.


17 posted on 02/15/2010 6:45:22 AM PST by Dudoight
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To: 6SJ7

LOL.

With a record like that I’m amazed Obama hasn’t appointed her as Tenure Czar yet.


18 posted on 02/15/2010 6:46:04 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: JoeProBono

F***ing Freak.

GUILTY


19 posted on 02/15/2010 6:46:25 AM PST by scoobysnak71 (I'm light skinned with no negro dialect. Could you milk me?)
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To: JoeProBono

We know she doesn’t have any conservative/Republican connections because it would have become front page news already.


20 posted on 02/15/2010 6:46:37 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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