The shootings in both Los Angeles and Brooklyn Park are being investigated as homicides.
Pretty quick to jump to conclusions there, aren’t you? How can they so quickly rule out natural causes? Since a gun was involved, maybe it was just one of those unfortunate but unavoidable accidents.
Note to self,
be really frickin’ careful who you piss off.
Ordinarily graduate students are a joy to work with and doctoral students especially so. You get to work one-on-one with people who are generally very sharp. This isn’t universally true, and sometimes things can go wrong.
This is a case where things went badly wrong. Sometimes the student blamed the advisor for his inability to complete the degree. I saw a story on the Guardian this afternoon which said he’d turned in a dissertation in 2013. If you turn in a dissertation in 2013 and it’s still not defended in 2016 something is seriously wrong. The student either turned an indefensible piece of work, or their were other serious problems with it. Those could range from academic honesty issues to outright errors in the work to crap writing.
The Guardian story said that the student accused the professor of giving away his (the student’s) computer code, which suggests to me an academic honesty problem of some sort. We don’t usually even think about this kind of thing when mentoring doctoral students, but things do happen occasionally.
The reporting has had some inconsistencies, but the LA Times quotes the LA police chief as saying that the killer got his degree in 2013, and the Times found his name in UCLA’s 2014 doctoral commencement program.
Whatever his complaints about the professors were, his wife didn’t seem to be involved with that. This was yet another troubled male who saw some other people as the bad guys in his life and some guns as the way to handle the bad guys. What kind of a nut would come up with that notion about guns?
Right!!?? This last sentence also completely took me by surprise. Did not see that coming.
That may explain the school shooting but not his wife. I guess if the guy knew he was going to kill then commit suicide, that he may as well take whomsoever else with him.
He didn’t have the mass killer’s mind and was intentional. Maybe the clues will be found soon as to why.
In general though, it’s another senseless gun incident, at a school, and I think the more that it happens, the more that it inspires others that may be having a hard time to do the same.
It isn’t OK and it should shock everyone.
It must be some kind of Indian thing. After all, no red-blooded lily-white American male would ever come up with such a confused notion, now would he? It’s a good thing we have the NRA to prevent the spread of these sorts of dangerous delusions.
Their gun-safety classes and materials are a real godsend. We hardly ever have a year with more than 12,000 non-suicide shooting deaths. On top of that, NRA lobbying on gun rights has made a real dent in the number of people committing suicide by hanging.
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Or whose wife youre boinkin’…
The L.A. Times story makes more sense than The Guardian story, except that if he’d completed his degree he’d passed the big hurdle. The next step is to move into the workforce or take a post-doc. In either event, the advisor’s role is pretty much over, other than writing recommendations and perhaps career counseling. Being angry with the UCLA prof doesn’t make any sense. But nothing much makes sense in this tragedy so far.
Boinkin, Boinkin, Boinkin…
Say that 3 times fast. The more I say it, the funnier it sounds.
Another note to self;
be careful where you boink
@leftflank…I love a guy who knows the fun of repeating a word until it sound silly.
Then I’m you’re guy ; )
Happy Sunday dnl.