Received: from frosty.irss.unc.edu (frosty.irss.unc.edu [152.2.32.82]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with SMTP id GAA27675 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 06:35:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from cassell@localhost) by frosty.irss.unc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.10) id IAA10360; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 08:34:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 08:34:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Cassell To: socgrad@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Re: Killing profs In-Reply-To: <96Aug21.001905edt.602-4@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Thomas F Brown wrote: > > > This sort of incident is not isolated. I have heard of several other cases. > Given the constant assault on graduate students' egos that seems to be SOP > in nearly every department, I am surprised that proficide doesn't happen > more often. > The newsgroup alt.grad-student.tenured has some information on past incidents. There are also some posts from people at San Diego State. Best, Jim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell jwcassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA