Annie Le

[HenryTo]

Tragic news all around. Questions abound including the motive and why no cameras within the building (if any) captured anything of relevance. Also wondering how late Ms. Le stayed in the building - as many grad students (and more so in Yale) pull all-nighters. This goes right to the heart of safety for our nation's most up-and-coming scientists and should be treated very seriously.

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/09/13/remains-found-10-amistad-street/

[bigbluemarble]

[nodoodahs]

[HenryTo]

In general, crime rates in the US have been declining since the early 1990s, although the major cause of this trend is unknown:

http://www.amazon.com/American-Decline-Studies-Public-Policy/dp/0195181158

[nodoodahs]

Tragedy. Yes. But there are many such tragedies every day, why is this one so much more important? Part of it is the novelty. Part of it is the media fascination with Ivy League schools.

I doubt that graduate schools are getting either more or less dangerous; sensation sells. Dog bites man. These are the stories we get. This is a strange one, with some co-incidental dates, so it's got legs. Which is a shame, but that's the nature of the beast.

Don't forget the media's love affair with Ivy League schools. If this had happened at Okstate, they'd have to pay the reporters' plane tickets and give them free donuts in the morning and free whiskey at night, just to get them to cover it once, much less post a half-a-dozen stories about it.
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I haven’t seen a beatin’ like that since somebody stuck a banana in my pants and turned a monkey loose.

[bigbluemarble]

This is so disturbing. College campuses are becoming so unsafe.
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"Midnight, and today becomes tomorrow."

[HenryTo]

Let's not rush to judgement at this point, although we should all remember that nothing is always what they seem:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/17/raymond.clark.profile/index.html