I suspect that the University will soon be clamping down on people speaking out about what Amy Bishop was like so I think this is going to be an important article.
Sounds like a certain former college instructor from Chicago. Wonder how he’ll take his pink slip?
So, now "crackers" is what, a clinical term?
We have IT people like this at work.
What were the details surrounding his death?
Whoever let her walk the first time bears a lot of guilt for this. She has probably been an unstable time bomb for the last 20 years. It takes a special kind of nut just to walk up and shoot someone who does not threaten them physically.
There’s a great movie about college tenure called Oleanna with William Macy.
Lotta talking but good on academic politics and arrogance.
I am at a smaller university and we sometimes we get applications from individuals from Harvard, Yale etc... Some are really good but some come across as very arrogant. We avoid messes by simply not hiring them in the first place.
For those who haven't followed it, the background to this is Amy Bishop, firing three shoots, killed her brother in 1986:
Braintree officers who remember the 1986 shooting said that former police Chief John Polio dismissed detectives from the case and ordered the department to release Amy Bishop after a telephone conversation with former district attorney William Delahunt, who is currently a U.S. congressman from Massachusetts."The police officers here were very upset about that," said Frazier, who was a patrolman at the time and spoke to officers who remembered the incident that day, including one who filed a report on it.
“Arrogant, aloof and superior” are wonderful traits to have in prison. Why, the other inmates will just adore that! ;-)
I just have to question this whole “brilliant researcher” thing. Clearly it was a facade, notwithstanding the given testimony. I think it’s the way things are these days.
The psychology professor said his counseling and forensics practices have exposed him to plenty of people with inclinations toward violence, but he saw no such signs in Bishop.
“Nowhere in any of my discussions with her did I get the idea that she was violent or that she had this inclination to bring a pistol to a meeting,” Seemann said.
He was "shocked at how she dealt with her frustration"?! What a perverse trivialization of the psychological mechanisms of a murderer! By his own repeated admissions, psychprof Seemann is utterly incompetent and clueless here. So why is he being interviewed? Because we're supposed to believe that rather than incompetent, he's actually an expert, and that if he couldn't see this coming no one could - which leads us to the inevitable MSM conclusion of - anyone, anywhere could go postal at any time, and no one could see it coming.
And just to rub this conclusion in, this idiot actually said he never thought she'd have an "inclination to bring a pistol to a meeting." Why say it like this? Because you're supposed to think, oh, if she just didn't have that evil gun available, none of this would happen (rather than seeing that she obviously brought the gun specifically to commit murder).
I knew the Leftist MSM would go into hyperdimensional spin mode over this one - they've spent the last 20 years turning women into monsters for Hillary, and now these arrogant, sadistic creatures are starting to lose it because their queen got kicked to the side of the road.
From that headline I will surmise she is a leftist.
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“That request was denied. The appeal went through the appeals process.
Amy told me she believed that there was a good chance of the appeal working.”
Despite her expressed hopes, Seemann said tenure denials rarely get reversed.
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Having experienced (peripherally) a sister-in-law that succeeded
in an appeal process at a major “State Univerity” to gain tenure...
it can be a harrowing experience.
Especially when the tenure candidate is “ahead of the curve” in
regard to the tenured faculty.
E.g., a tenure candidate working in plant genomics in a department
heavy with cutting-edge agronomy...for the 1950s-1970s.
Being basically a free-market guy with lots of friends/family
in the academic sphere...you fight for tenure.
And accept defeat at an institution.
Then MOVE ON.
E.g., Carl Sagan denied at Harvard (IIRC), gets tenure at Cornell U.
(yeah, an evil university). And I know personally of a few other
cases of accquainences don’t get tenure at Ivy League Universities...
but get tenure at respectable universities.
The gals at the state pen will be real impressed. Not.
The University of Alabama at Huntsville professor accused of fatally shooting three colleagues Friday during a meeting killed her brother in 1986.
Amy Bishop, now 42, shot her teenage sibling at their home in the Boston suburb of Braintree, town police said. She fired at least three shots; two shots struck her bedroom wall and one shot struck her brother in the chest, police said.
Bishop’s brother, Seth, 18, was an accomplished violinist. His death was ruled an accident, but additional information about the shooting is unavailable because files related to it have disappeared, police said.
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2010/02/amy_bishop_university_of_alaba.html
See, if you're a liberal, it's not what you actually do, it's what you mean to do...right?
"I mean she's not just some random schmuck"
Ok, maybe not random.
They KNOW they can't control their emotions or themselves when faced with adversity. So Gun Control is kind of like 'a mental strait jacket' for them. If there's no guns around, they won't go on a Killing Spree.
oh, 'UAH'. How's that gun free zone thingy working out for ya?
Another narcissist in action.