An ABC news pundit just summed up the problem that’s kept the Republicans down in this election. And we can quote it here at University Diaries because it’s a university reference.

UD will cop to being extremely excited to hear, just now, that Elizabeth Warren won in Massachusetts. UD has been a big supporter of Warren from the start, and it’s been a close race throughout. Big sigh.

… supporters, maybe Donald Trump is something God intended to happen.

… a Chinese novelist, wins the Nobel. Presumably we’re all off to read, among his novels, Big Breasts and Wide Hips (1996).

One of the two recipients of the Nobel for chemistry describes The Phone Call.

UD suspects, though, that hearing five Swedish accents might have the opposite effect. Might make you think it’s just a more elaborate joke.

… a student at Utica College – an award-winning hockey player in high school – is charged with having beaten his girlfriend – a College at Brockport student – to death in her dorm room.

This is breaking news. University Diaries will cover the story as it develops.

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Update: The story has quickly jumped to the Associated Press.

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Unverified details suggest some more similarities to the Virginia lacrosse case: The boyfriend is rumored to have been drinking with friends before he went to the woman’s dorm room; the couple is said to have had a stormy relationship with a lot of fighting; there is a suggestion that she may have tired of the relationship and tried to end it.

Unverified details of the attack are also similar. As in the Yeardley Love case, this woman was battered to death.

There are also rumors that the killer knocked out the woman’s roommate by hitting her with an iron.

And like Love’s killer, this suspect has a drunk and disorderly arrest on his record.

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Students are not being held in the dorm, but many have been seen leaving the hall with parents, as well as some with full backpacks and purses.

SUNY Brockport’s newspaper suddenly has a big story on its hands, and so far is doing an excellent job, providing incident-by-incident updates. Its journalists are best-situated to convey a sense of the feel of the campus in the immediate aftermath of a murder. And yes – of course those parents are swarming to take their kids out of that bloody building.

… other sites, was down for most of the afternoon. Her host, GoDaddy, apparently got hacked.

But I’m back, to share with you the Headline of the Day:

MEN CAUGHT WITH TINY PRIMATES IN THEIR UNDERWEAR IN DELHI AIRPORT

… at the Empire State Building. A developing story.

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Chicago.

… locking down the campus.

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Two dead.

… frequented by University of Alabama students.

… about the Affordable Care Act decision. The first announcement we heard said it was a goner; now it’s clear that it’s going to go forward. Mr UD pores over the SCOTUS blog; UD listens as he reads from the decision as it’s published.

… with apocalypse.

UD‘s friend Jack sends her this breaking news from the campus of the University of Alberta: Three security guards were shot to death a few hours ago in an attempted robbery of an armored car in front of a bank machine. The location was a combined shopping mall and residence hall. A student who lives in the residence hall is quoted in my headline.

A few quick points about this developing story.

Don’t forget that Canada has a high level of private gun ownership.

Should universities not build shopping mall/residence hall combinations? This isn’t much of a solution. All urban (and many suburban) campuses have banks and bank machines, or are adjacent to these things. In the lobby of the campus building housing UD‘s office, there’s a Bank of America ATM. Whenever she sees uniformed men working on it, she thinks about how vulnerable they are (she is). But universities like George Washington University (four blocks from the White House) are so vulnerable in so many ways it’s not even funny. No one talks about dismantling these campuses.

There’s a real issue here having to do with notification of students, faculty, and staff. Woo claims she wasn’t notified:

On twitter, the university said that those within ‘close proximity’ were notified. i live in hub and i witnessed many of these events. i, along with many other students, did not get any sort of emergency notification. i am extremely disappointed in the lack of concern the university places on student safety.

… has been nominated to head the World Bank.

UD has noticed that people tend to feel very strongly about cruelty. Wanton cruelty tends to rub people the wrong way.

How else can you explain the guilty-all-the-way verdict that just came down against the Rutgers University student whose secret filming of his gay roommate having sex so devastated the roommate that when he realized what had been done to him he killed himself?

Dharun Ravi’s lawyers argued his tender age (twenty), the clueless immaturity of the guy, etc. And Ravi must have thought it would work, because he refused a no-jail plea bargain. But the sheer vicious degeneracy of it all – especially given the vulnerable personality of the suicide, a person just beginning to discover who he was – seems to have riled the jurors.

After he serves his time, Dharun faces deportation.

… is the scene of a shooting. The situation is ongoing.