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- From: alawrenc@sobeco.com (a.lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Fabrikant pre-murder E-mail
- Organization: Sobeco Ernst & Young
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 13:46:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.134635.3821@sobeco.com>
- References: <DALTON.92Aug27034426@mantle.Geop.UBC.CA>
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- In <DALTON.92Aug27034426@mantle.Geop.UBC.CA> dalton@mantle.Geop.UBC.CA (David Dalton) writes:
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- >V.I. Fabrikant, a professor in Mechanical Engineering at Concordia
- >University, recently murdered three colleagues and injured more.
-
- ..... text deleted .....
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- >A fairly lively discussion has been going on in sci.research
- >and sci.research.careers as a result of Fabrikant's postings.
- >Many of the posters think there may be something to Fabrikant's
- >accusations and think there should be an investigation.
-
- It should also be noted take Fabrikant took all of his acusations
- to the Montreal Gazatte (the cities on English language daily) in the
- spring and that after extensive investigation they refused to publish
- anything because none of his charges could be substansiated.
-
- For those who have not had the opportunity to read the daily reports
- published in Montreal, it is established that a) Fabrikant was extremely
- litigeous (dozens of law-suits against everyone he had dealings with),
- b) abusive and threatening to anyone who disagreed with him.
-
- My feeling and intution concerning this case are that our traditions
- of freedom of expression and fair play (due process) have failed us here.
- It is evident that Fabrikant was a madman who used the system to harass
- and coerce others into giving him what he wanted. When he failed to
- achieve instant tenure, even thought he was on a tenure track, he bought
- three hand-guns (requiring considerable persistence on his part because
- his orginal applications for a gun permit were refused by the police) and
- shot his colleagues.
-
- Today, everyone is asking how withins the bounds of our systems could
- this tragedy been averted. The answers are NOT easy.
-
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