Posted on 06/23/2011 3:34:17 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
TAMPA — Stefani Hernandez was walking her two Weimaraners outside her apartment complex near International Plaza when she got a weird feeling, like someone was behind her.
"I turned around," the 26-year-old remembers, "and there he was, inches from me." He told her she had nice dogs.
Qingnong Xiao, 48, is an associate professor at the University of South Florida's College of Marine Science, earning $108,344 a year. He is a hurricane expert with publications in scientific journals.
Hernandez didn't know any of that. She didn't know him. But she knew he made her nervous.
So she went inside her complex.
He followed.
"Do you have somewhere you have to be?" she asked him. She wonders why those particular words came out of her mouth. She wonders if she should have yelled, or run. But she was frozen, scared.
He responded, "No."
She didn't want to go into her own apartment. So she began to knock on a neighbor's door. That's when one of her dogs started to run down the opposite hallway.
She turned toward her dog.
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Xiao remained employed by USF after his arrest. He worked at the graduate school doing research, university spokeswoman Lara Wade said. School officials were aware he faced charges but were waiting for the outcome of the case. This week, Wade said, they will decide how to proceed.
Xiao, who is not tenured, was hired in August 2009. He came to the university from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., where he was a project scientist...
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An associate professor makes over $100,000 a year?
That’s part of the reason college expenses are rising at twice the rate medical expenses are rising.
USF seems to be a cesspool of questionable Professors. Teaching our little musheads with all sorts of crap! This is not the first time of getting bad publicity.
Not a clue to what was going on around her.
The best defense is some personnel awareness.
Liberals have built quite a racket for themselves, eh?
Her big dogs sure weren’t any help.
Interesting no?
USF takes in a lot of “problems” or nurtures “problems.”
I wonder why Boulder cut him loose?
From what I understand, most colleges and universities don’t do background checks on faculty when they are hired. They do background checks on staff but not faculty. And I don’t think background checks are done on students either.
They don't want to know what's there.
Either that or they can’t believe that one of their elite number could possibly do something criminal. So, there is no need to do the background check.
I’m not convinced that reference checks are done very well for faculty either. Intellectual snobbery does have it’s downside, no?
Hell grade school teachers make more than that in New York state.
Too much liability not to screen faculty as well as staff. We do background checks on faculty, and it's standard. It's in the contract that we'll have the interviews and be all nicey-nice, but once you're a finalist for the job, we won't take it to the next step without a criminal background check. It's a real anal, too. And we're just a college for working-class kids in a small, backwater city.
I don't think we do the same level of checks on students, but frankly, that's not where the trouble comes from.
creepy stalker dude is now out on miniscule bail
Isn’t that special
She has the wrong dogs.
Well, THIS associate professor sure doesn't! And my university does background checks.
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