"I was willing to resign before I would continue with him," she told CNN. "It was the meanness." Professor Roy started teaching him in a one-on-one workshop, and it didn’t take long for her, too, to worry for her own safety, working out a secret alarm with her assistant. "If she mentioned the name of a dead professor, her assistant would know it was time to call security," The Times reported today. Later in the CNN interview, Professor Giovanni said that reports on Monday that that the gunman was Asian left "no doubt" in her mind who did it. Her interviewer's shock led her to make something very clear. "But I'm not prescient," she said.