3 people die in shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville
 

CNN.com:

School spokesman: 3 people die in shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville; female suspect is in custody.

http://www.cnn.com/

They have a picture of the shooter on foxnews.com as they are putting her in the cop car. I think she looks disturbed.

According to the news I was watching (TXCN here) she was apparently a professor who was upset about not being tenured. Seriously? Dang, people nowadays.

That's what I heard. Her and a few other professors were meeting to discuss tenure, and they told her she didn't get it.

I saw on the news the tape from when the police were putting her into the car. The audio was a little hard to hear at first, but then someone clearly asks her, "What about the people who are dead?" and she replied, "They're still alive," in a rather monotone way.

I believe it was one of her co-workers who also said that she seemed cut off from reality.

And apparently she killed her brother back in 1986.....?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35372168...me_and_courts/

Maybe that's why she didn't get her tenure. I wonder if the faculty there is subject to background investigations, even though this may have not been on there due to the fact she wasn't fromally charged with killing her brother.

I would give an over/under on how long this would take to get to Law & Order...if there hadn't already been an episode with an almost identical story.

I really hope they open up the case concerning her brother again. The fact that she shot him and now all these years later has killed other people shows that she has a propensity towards violence. I suspect that there was something fishy about her brother's death and they just overlooked it at the time.

I also hope they don't try to use an insanity defense. She's not crazy. She is a selfish wench who has now caused unspeakable pain to others because SHE didn't get what SHE wanted. Times like this I really wish they would forego trials. They know she did killed these people. No sense in wasting a bunch of money on her.

she sent pipe bombs to her old boss at harvard, i read

Some colleges and universities have already implemented tougher background checks for faculty hires. Perhaps this will make them get even tougher.

Because you didn't get tenure? Crazy bitch was just a ticking time bomb. It didn't matter what her anger was about.

Methinks the profs at Hudson University would do well to look into term life plans...

We've been talking about this, and have a question: are professors always tenured after x amount of years? Is it that unusual not to receive tenure?

There has been discussion on another board I frequent about her having invented some sort of cell incubator, the patent to which the University forced her to turn over to them. If true (I haven't had time to do any digging), this could have been an exacerbating factor.

@honeychile: Not always, but people generally know what's up by year four or so (people generally apply for tenure around the fifth or sixth year--at least in my field). They know whether they are on track in terms of what they have to demonstrate/accomplish to be awarded tenure. They should also have a sense of whether they are up for a battle, because of politics, if they have been keeping their ear to the ground. All of this to say it is--in the majority of cases--not really a surprise when someone either does or does not receive tenure. I have known cases where folks who know, or have a strong feeling, that they are not going to receive tenure at their current institution have begun looking for a position elsewhere rather than even going through the process.

There are always exceptions though.