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Grad student stabs professor to death in his office

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http://www.39online.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-professor-fatally-stabbed,0,6978412.story (AP article)
A graduate student has been accused of fatally stabbing a 77-year-old Binghamton University anthropology professor.

Mollen says there's no indication of religious or ethnic motivation in the attack.
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More details:
http://www.stargazette.com/article/...l-stabbing-of-Binghamton-University-professor
Antoun was stabbed four times with a 6-inch kitchen blade while he was inside a campus office.

A BU biography of Antoun shows he received a doctorate from Harvard in 1963 and joined the Binghamton faculty in 1976.
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Very horrific, it is horrible to think of getting killed by being stabbed and left to bleed out or die as one's lungs fill with blood. My condolences to his family. I cannot even begin to imagine what caused the student to stab a 77 year-old man in cold blood....
 
Killer: Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani

And prof wrote: Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements.

This has Sudden Jihad Syndrome (SJS) written all over it.

I always found that amusing like after cartoons or fitna movie: Were not radical, see will show you by killing you or burning down the place.
 
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Zebo said:
Killer: Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani

And prof wrote: Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements.

This has Sudden Jihad Syndrome (SJS) written all over it.

I always found that amusing like after cartoons or fitna movie: Were not radical, see will show you by killing you or burning down the place.
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So now we have a code word for it, SJS?
 
Zebo said:
Killer: Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani

And prof wrote: Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements.

This has Sudden Jihad Syndrome (SJS) written all over it.

I always found that amusing like after cartoons or fitna movie: Were not radical, see will show you by killing you or burning down the place.
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most likely, yep
 
More like he probably spent years working for the guy before the prof failed his defense or something.

There was a story about a grad student at stanford which led to the "stanford solution".

Guy was a math grad student for like 10 years, and when he went to defend his thesis, his own PI failed him. So the student went to his car, grabbed a hammer, and went to the prof's office and beat him to death. Every time he comes up for parole, he refuses to show remorse and insists the bastard deserves it. I kinda agree with him.
 
That student was probably ready to kill for a passing grade...

I am not sure if the professor got the point...
 
Wow, that's horrible. And not that this has anything to do with the seriousness, but 77 is pretty old to be working, especially as a college professor.
 
Quintox said:
77 is pretty old to be working, especially as a college professor.
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They guy who taught me theory of computation has been teaching for ~50 years (not CS the entire time, obviously) and is still going.

The professor in question was likely pseudo-retired. There was a guy in my old mathematics department that retired a decade before he taught his last linear algebra class.
 
uclaLabrat said:
More like he probably spent years working for the guy before the prof failed his defense or something.

There was a story about a grad student at stanford which led to the "stanford solution".

Guy was a math grad student for like 10 years, and when he went to defend his thesis, his own PI failed him. So the student went to his car, grabbed a hammer, and went to the prof's office and beat him to death. Every time he comes up for parole, he refuses to show remorse and insists the bastard deserves it. I kinda agree with him.
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According to the NYT article the killer complained about being persecuted because he was a muslim, and repeatedly talked about death with his roommate and screamed all the time in Arabic.

The professor killed was of Lebanese extraction giving him good perspective of fundamentalism living in heart of it. But he was not even the killers professor.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/nyregion/07binghamton.html?_r=1&em

This killing just reminded me of the Japanese University Professor who had his throat cut for no apparent reason other than he happened to be the Japanese translator of Rushdie's Satanic Verses. He was just a language professor.
 
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if the student was working on it for 10 years, and every year, the professor just fails him out of spite or personnal vendetta, I'd say the professor would deserve it.
 
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