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Police: female faculty member kills three on UA-Huntsville campus
WLBT ^ | 2-12-2010 | WLBT

Posted on 02/12/2010 3:31:27 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo

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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Well, I think that’s it for her chances at tenure.

Prayers for the victims and their families!


41 posted on 02/12/2010 3:54:41 PM PST by Danae (Don't like our Constitution? Try living in a country with out one.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Ah, finally a woman that N.O.W. can rally behind. (as long as the victims were males)


42 posted on 02/12/2010 3:56:41 PM PST by Clink (The more you complain, the longer God lets you live.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Authorities said a female faculty member during a Biology faculty meeting learned she would not receive tenure. She then pulled out a gun and started shooting.

I hate it when that happens. Learning about being denied tenure should definitely be timed to a non-PMS time.

43 posted on 02/12/2010 3:56:43 PM PST by FourPeas ([F]or hostility is a relation and an enemy is not a total stranger. C.S. Lewis, Perelandra)
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To: OregonRancher

No, I’m aware of that, and assumed it. She was up for tenure, having presumably been in the department for several years (not necessarily three in every department) and didn’t get it.

Or if she had taught several years elsewhere, it’s possible that she could have been considered sooner. Normally you need to get tenure after six years in one place. When you come into a new department, it’s usually negotiable how many years of teaching in other departments will count toward tenure.

What I said, is that this probably seemed like the end of the line to her when she was turned down and probably saw no other options.


44 posted on 02/12/2010 3:57:29 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: brytlea

Police also have the alleged shooter’s husband in custody. He has not been formally charged with anything.


45 posted on 02/12/2010 3:57:54 PM PST by boxerblues
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Well, it looks like the tenure committee definitely made the right choice, for what it's worth.

Guessing that she knew this was coming because she had a gun on her and was ready to use it in a department meeting?

46 posted on 02/12/2010 3:58:54 PM PST by WallStreetCapitalist
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
Really, you're blaming this on Darwin? Idiot.

I think the point was that humanism,atheism and evolution tend to point to mankind as living tissue and nothing more. The Bible teaches we are created in the image of God and have worth and life itself is precious. The pro-abortion teachings de-humanize sensitivities about the horror of murder.

47 posted on 02/12/2010 3:59:14 PM PST by BipolarBob (Gravity. It's not just the law it's a good idea.)
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To: MrEdd
Very likely, portable Internet based training programs that are arising now will grow in prestige and continue to get cheaper until the aging university system collapses.

Good news.

48 posted on 02/12/2010 3:59:45 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Premeditated murder with a handgun on a gunfree college campus by a female liberal teacher over rage at being denied power.

Response from the MSM and NOW: *crickets*


49 posted on 02/12/2010 4:00:02 PM PST by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Just what you don’t want - another LUNATIC, posing as a TEACHER! Amazing. LIBERALS are UNBALANCED!


50 posted on 02/12/2010 4:01:52 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Boardwalk

Harvard University “trained” neuroscientist (per fox)
husband also in custody


51 posted on 02/12/2010 4:02:10 PM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Cicero

Thanks for the info. I know in my Fathers time, if you had
tenure and wanted to go to another University and was
accepted, you were granted tenure immediately.


52 posted on 02/12/2010 4:04:08 PM PST by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: nmh

I am convinced that liberalism is a mental illness.beyond a shaddow of a doubt to boot


53 posted on 02/12/2010 4:04:44 PM PST by Boardwalk
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

“Really, you’re blaming this on Darwin?
Idiot.”

Interesting how you jump straight to a dehumanization, sub-primary slur. The stock-in-trade of the darwinist. Someone has an opinion that differs from yours, and you must slur their intellect.

That’s really very sad.


54 posted on 02/12/2010 4:05:03 PM PST by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

55 posted on 02/12/2010 4:05:56 PM PST by jpsb
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

This is another of those “gun free zone” multiple killings. So sad.....


56 posted on 02/12/2010 4:06:17 PM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Makes me long for the old days at University of Chicago,early in 1969, when Radical Lefty Sociology lecturer Marlene Dixon did not get tenure (for all the obvious reasons, like no publications and shaky research), and all her ‘supporters’ did was take over the Adminstration Building. Smoked cigars, put their feet up on the desks, messed things up, called for ‘fortifications’, (mainly peanut butter and jelly sandwiches) , then got tired of the whole thing when, after two weeks, the crackdown never came, and they simply left the building, disgruntled and unsatisfied.I was there, twice, as a bemused observer, and marvelled at how closely the template followed the images directly from Cuba when Castro and his group took over Havana. Especially the cigars.
Edward Levi,the new President of the University, did the counterintuitive thing and just let them stew in their own juices. He was also Nixon’s Atty.
General , I don’t remember whether before or after.


57 posted on 02/12/2010 4:07:26 PM PST by supremedoctrine (Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn.)
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To: BipolarBob
That may or may not be true in the aggregate (there are plenty of humanists/atheists who believe that life itself is precious), but there is absolutely NO indication in anything I've read that your point is at all relevant here. It looks here like this person is a deranged lunatic who snapped upon hearing some bad news. There are humanist/atheist lunatics, there are fundy-religious lunatics, there are all sorts of shades of gray in between - I'm only saying that it seems idiotic to immediately turn this into some sort of religious v. atheist v. Darwin sort of issue...
58 posted on 02/12/2010 4:07:41 PM PST by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Clink

Didn’t a chapter of NOW name itself after Lorena Bobbitt?


59 posted on 02/12/2010 4:08:53 PM PST by Inappropriate Laughter (Obama: An Illegal Alien Living In Public Housing)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
Authorities said a female faculty member during a Biology faculty meeting learned she would not receive tenure.

Another government employee thinking they deserve a job for life?

Anyone notice there is no such thing as "tenure" in the real world private sector?

60 posted on 02/12/2010 4:10:35 PM PST by dragnet2
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