… at the Empire State Building. A developing story.
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… 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.
The Romney/Cantor argument about income inequality sweeps the nation.
… are set to start. On Monday, George Huguely goes on trial for the murder of Yeardley Love; and next month Amy Bishop will be tried for killing three, and injuring another three, of her colleagues at the University of Alabama, Huntsville.
UD suspects the Huguely trial will be straightforward, and that he will be convicted on the charge. Amy Bishop appears to be a madwoman, and that makes her sentence harder to anticipate (she will certainly be found guilty).
UD will follow both trials.
GOP HOPEFULS ON HOT SEAT
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… and a man found on the scene is arrested.
Update: Much more here. The man arrested was a colleague and friend.
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Another Update: Maybe it wasn’t murder. The dead man appears to have had mental trouble recently. Perhaps the man arrested had tried to prevent his friend from committing suicide?