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- From: parker@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Jim Parker)
- Subject: Re: A few thoughts on Fabrikant.
- Message-ID: <Bto6w0.KnC@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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- Organization: University of Calgary Computer Science
- References: <BtMEFC.Hps@cs.dal.ca> <714926508@pike.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:31:11 GMT
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- >
- >You couldn't have read his postings and not realized the man was
- >unstable... I do have one question about the whole situation:
- >the night of the shooting, Headline News reported that Fabrikant
- >was reported to have brought a gun to a previous faculty meeting.
- >Does anyone know if that is true? If so, why wasn't he out on his
- >butt long ago?
- >
- Campus security stopped him entering a meeting some time ago, saying that
- they had been informed that he was carrying a firearm. He was not, at
- that time, carrying a weapon.
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- He was, by the documents sent at least, a good researcher. My question is,
- if he was getting that kind of abuse WHO NEEDS CONCORDIA? Seems to me that
- there are dozens of schools that would have him. Whatever injustices may
- have been done in fact, and we know of none for certain, nothing would
- justify the actions he took.
-
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- Jim Parker
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