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Sunday, February 14, 2010
When faculty politics becomes deadly
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I welcome discussion on this point. I don't think it is as sensitive or as important a topic as the author order on papers. With rega...
To be fair I understand that it was "friends" who were quoted as blaming the tenure thing, and in any case that would be the tip of the iceberg and (I would bet) a relatively minor contributing factor.
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, a terrible tragedy in one of the last places I would have expected it. A good reminder that no one is immune from mental illness. Thanks Ross.
I understand that she killed her brother with a shotgun in 1996. The explanation was an accident while he was teaching her to shoot, but interestingly, there were three shots fired.
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