From: vadik@cs.umd.edu (Vadim Maslov)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Professor goes on shooting spree
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:49:17 GMT


Now, more info on my previous posting.

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From: John Kolojejchick <jake@MORK.CIMDS.RI.CMU.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 12:17:50 EDT
To: senn@maya.com, lauren@maya.com, welling@seurat.psc.edu, xeti@lucid.com
Subject: When they say publish or perish...


The following looks like headline material for "News of the Weird".

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From: dstewart+@cs.cmu.edu (David B Stewart)
Subject: Engineering Professor goes on killing spree
Organization: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 00:40:46 -0400

Montreal, Canada -- A Concordia University engineering professor went on a
shooting rampage in protest of unfair practices and not getting tenure at the
university.  Two people were killed and three others injured (two of them are
in critical condition) during the spree on the 9th floor of the university's
main downtown building.  The suspect is Dr. Fabrikant of the Dept. of
Mechanical Engineering.  The non-critically injured victim is a secretary in
the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering.  The other victims are all believed to be
senior faculty members, most likely from the Mechanical and Electrical
Engineering Depts.  The police have not yet released the names of the victims.

Before the killings took place, a very long series of letters leading up
to this incident was recently posted on 'sci.research.careers'.  The posts
include some letters from Dr. Fabrikant, and it is obvious that he had not
ruled out violence in protest of what he believes to be unfair practices at
Concordia.  For your convenience, I have archived these posts into a single
file. They are in /afs/cs/usr/dstewart/fabrikant.

I will post a followup message when I hear the names of the victims.

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David B. Stewart  - email: <dstewart@cmu.edu>            The Robotics Institute
snail mail:       - ECE Dept., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Current Projects: - Chimera II Real-Time Operating System
		  - Reconfigurable Sensor-Based Control Systems


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Subject: Fabrikant@Concordia
From: Rick Busdiecker <rfb+@CS.CMU.EDU>
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
X-Windows: Garbage at your fingertips.
Return-Receipt-To: rfb=receipt@cs.cmu.edu
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 13:27:23 -0400

This is a quote from Dr. Fabrikant, who went on a shooting spree at
Concordia University yesterday afternoon around 4pm.  It was taken
from sci.research.carreers where it was posted around 2pm yesterday.

 ``2. The University, as well as "persons affected" are very welcome to sue me
   for libel. May be, this is the only way for the truth to come out.
   Someone has asked me if I am afraid that the "persons affected" might hire
   someone to stage my "accidental death" or to frame me in some kind of a crime.
   Well, I am no longer afraid of anything or anybody. We all have to die one
   day. Whenever I die, I shall die an honest person. I just wonder, how many
   administrators can say the same about themselves. Gandhi considered jail
   as a must for an honest person. I am prepared for that too.
   I just regret that I put up with all this filth for twelve years.
   Make no mistake, I am dead serious in what I am doing. I can not fight
   all the crooks in the world, but I shall not rest until the bogus
   scientists in this university are exposed and the Justice is
   served.''

				V. I. Fabrikant


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