According to the Associated Press: “The professor accused of killing three colleagues during a faculty meeting was a Harvard-educated neurobiologist, inventor and mother whose life had been marred by a violent episode in her distant past.

More than two decades ago, police said Amy Bishop fatally shot her teenage brother at their Massachusetts home in what officers at the time logged as an accident — though authorities said Saturday that records of the shooting are missing.

Bishop had just months left teaching at the University of Alabama in Huntsville when police said she opened fire with a handgun Friday in a room filled with a dozen of her colleagues from the school’s biology department. Bishop, a rare woman suspected in a workplace shooting, was to leave after this semester because she had been denied tenure.”

UPDATE :And, as the mystery surround this woman grows, The Crimson is now reporting that she was implicated in a 1993 attempt to bomb at Harvard professor.

The Associated Press is reporting that three people were killed and at least one other injured this afternoon in a shooting at the University of Alabama-Hunstville. According to a University spokesperson, a female suspect is in custody. Neither the name of the suspect nor the victims have been released.

There are no updates yet at The Exponent, UAH’s student newspaper, but hopefully they’ll have more information soon.

We all know you can buy a term paper online if you really want to. You risk getting caught (and these days more and more students are getting caught) and you have to live with violating the academic code of integrity on your conscience. But you can do it.

What most of us don’t know is that the paper that you spent hours writing, citing all quotes perfectly for and got an A on may now be available online for purchase without your consent or knowledge.

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A recent report from the Center for Public Integrity indicates that Universities tend to try to cover up sexual assaults on campus, calling it a “culture of secrecy.”

Of 33 female students who reported begin raped and were interviewed by the Center, over half were unsuccessful in their pursuit of criminal charges and “instead had to seek justice in closed, school-run administrative proceedings that led either to academic penalties or no punishment at all for their alleged assailants, leaving them feeling betrayed by a process they say has little transparency or accountability. Some of those students… said they were ordered to keep quiet about the proceedings and threatened with punishment if they did not. Still other students said administrators discouraged them from pursuing rape complaints.”

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Early Sunday morning, a fight at a University of Connecticut on-campus dance turned deadly with the school’s starting cornerback was stabbed to death. Jasper Howard, age 20, was stabbed in a fight that broke out after a fire alarm was pulled at the dance in the Student Union.  Another person was injured in the fight, whose name and role in the incident has not been released.  Both students and non-students were involved in the fight.

The UConn football team had just won its homecoming game, a game in which Howard had a career-high 11 tackles and forced a fumble at a critical point.

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For those fellow students who have suffered through torturous science labs and think the title of this post is a joke… it’s not.

A student at the University of California, Los Angeles, stabbed a fellow labmate in in the neck in the middle of their organic chemistry class, reports the LA Times.  As their classmates watched, the alleged attacker, a 20-year-old student, Damon Thompson, walked up to the 20-year-old female victim and stabbed her five times, slashing her throat.  Although it was originally reported that the incident was the result of an argument, prosecutors now believe that the attack was unprovoked.

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Over the past few days, a hunt has been underway to find the culprits in the theft of 10,000 copies of the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the students newspaper of the University of Arizona.

On Thursday morning, 10,000 of 13,000 copies of the Arizona Daily Wildcat were stolen from the racks. Arizona Student Media — the university department that oversees The Wildcat — estimates that the paper lost $8,500 in advertising revenue as a result of the theft.

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In my book, it’s common sense not to bribe or threaten the press. It never really seems to work out for anyone involved.

Nonetheless, it appears that the Police Chief at Northern Illinois University (Donald Grady) may have tried doing just that. According to an editorial written last week by The Northern Star — Northern Illinois U.’s student newspaper — “he went as far as to bring the Star’s editor in chief into his office and dangle the possibility of post-graduation employment in exchange for a glowing retraction of the Yarbrough story, while similarly implying a negative outcome as a result of refusal.”

Check out the full editorial – it lists a number of other offenses that the editorial board believe he should be fired over. According to The Daily Chronicle, the school has begun a review of Grady’s work and he is now on administrative leave pending the investigation. Moral of the story: Whether the oulet is big or small, do not threaten the press.

A Penn State student missing since Sunday has been found dead, the AP reports. The death appears to be accidental. The student, Joseph Dado, had last been seen at a fraternity party, and was found at the body of a stairwell, apparently after a fall.

This comes about a week after the suspected murder of Yale graduate student, Annie Le.

According to Slate’s Jack Shafer, “Journalists almost everywhere observe this rough rule of thumb: Three murders at a Midwestern college equal one murder at Harvard or Yale.”

“If you plan to be murdered and expect decent press coverage, please have the good sense to be a Harvard or Yale student or professor. America’s top dailies and the cable networks will rush to the scene of the crime and sniff the vicinity for clues to your demise. They’ll scrape your personal history and publish enough information to serve as a foundation for a made-for-TV movie about you,” he writes.

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