… Dagblog, and she thanks Dagblog for its kind words about UD‘s coverage of the Amy Bishop story.

Note that University Diaries has a category – amy bishop – which collects all of my posts about this ongoing criminal case.

From an editorial about President Lois DeFleur, responsible for the worst scandal in SUNY Binghamton’s history. The editorial appears in Pipe Dream, the university newspaper.

Tiger [Woods] allegedly only slept with 14 women.

DeFleur fucked us all.

More and more attention gets paid to James Anderson, the bizarre, prevaricating, threatening husband of Amy Bishop.

When a great university goes out of its way to hire a cheater, all it has to do is sit back and wait.

Extra point: He’s costing them a fortune.

A few months ago, a kind reader put this blog on Facebook.

UD wants to remind her regular readers, and tell her new ones, about this UD resource.

… this is excellent writing. Not the initial email from the student. The initial email’s okay, but nothing special.

Galloway’s response. Read that one.

Nicely written piece in On Milwaukee about the forthcoming basketball arena at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

New information on the pipe bomb mailing in 1993.

Bishop must have learned from her remarkable success in the 1986 shooting that refusing cooperation with investigators is the ticket.

“Both suspects have retained an attorney and have refused to participate in further interviews, have declined to give consent to a search of an unattached garage to the rear of their house, and have refused to take a polygraph,’’ according to the documents [about Bishop and her husband].

The professor targeted, Paul Rosenberg, told police that “weeks before the attempted bombing, he played a role in Bishop’s resignation from her job as a postdoctoral research fellow in the hospital’s neurobiology lab because “he felt she could not meet the standards required for the work. …Rosenberg said Bishop’s co-workers felt she had “problems with depression,’’ that he thought “she was not stable,’’ and that there had been growing concerns because she had “exhibited violent behavior.’’

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Boston Globe

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And Washington Post.

… will shortly appear at Inside Higher Education.

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“Murder in the Cathedral” is now up at IHE.

And UD’s not sure why people are paying attention to this one. Because it’s being operated from inside a prison?

[I]t seems wise to ask if the authorities are taking a close look at [Amy Bishop’s] husband, James Anderson. His statements and observations about his wife don’t always compute, and he was also questioned, with her, in the matter of the pipe bomb mailed to a Harvard physician in 1993.

A blogger at The Hill agrees with UD (see this post) that authorities shouldn’t be as nonchalant about Bishop’s husband as they’ve long been about Bishop. Given her desperation and madness, and the couple’s possible tendency to commit atrocities together, UD believes investigators should consider putting their children in protective custody.

As details emerge of the failure of Canada’s First Nations University (background here), it’s clear that this was a textbook case of institutional failure.

Or, rather, comic book. You have to laugh at the maniacal thoroughness with which its overseers inflicted upon FNU every conceivable injury you can inflict on a university. Only the story of Yusupov’s plot against Rasputin chronicles as many wounds.

Ignore the twee family website. Tasha Tudor (a successful book illustrator, she died a few years ago) is the object of a squalid dispute among her children. They are fighting over her assets like animals in an Aesop’s fable.

Moral: Only lawyers will get anything.

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A detail from her will:

Tudor’s 2001 will asked that she be buried with her predeceased dogs and the ashes of her pet rooster Chickahominy, should he die before her.

There are two models for this.

One, typified by the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, is a comprehensive institution, almost entirely devoted to extortion of private and public funds. Other examples of the-university-as-criminal-conspiracy are Asia University (currently available for purchase at seven billion won) and Panteion University in Greece.

The other model involves top-down, restricted theft, as in the recent case of Hungary’s National Defense University. Here the extortion seems to have been performed by the rector, on his own initiative.

The rector of the Zrinyi Miklós National Defense University – Hungary’s higher education facility for military personnel – was placed on remand last Thursday on suspicion of abuse of office. János Szabó had to be wrestled to the ground by National Bureau of Investigation (NNI) officers while attempting to resist arrest the previous Tuesday.

Szabó had allegedly told the Hungarian arm of the German parcel carrier DHL that it was the subject of an investigation over personnel transporting drugs and arms. He is alleged to have offered to use his influence to have the probe stopped, in exchange for DHL signing a contract with a security firm nominated by Szabó.

Scrappy Hungarians! Can you imagine an American university president wrestled to the ground while resisting arrest? You know they’d go quietly.

Kajoko Kifuji, a professor at Tufts, prescribed homicidal amounts of anti-psychotics to a child.

I mean, of course, she handed the prescriptions to the child’s parents – the child was only four at the time.

Kifuji had been giving her powerful drugs since she was two.

Rebecca Riley’s parents killed her (the mother has been convicted of second degree murder; the father’s trial begins soon) via doses of the multiple non-FDA-approved (for use in children) drugs Kifuji gave them.

Kifuji – who prescribed the same drugs to the parents’ other two children – based these prescriptions on what the mother told her about her children.

Kifuji testified that her diagnosis was primarily based on Carolyn Riley’s description of her daughter as aggressive and disruptive. She in 2004 prescribed Clonidine to Rebecca for ADHD; the next year, she prescribed Depakote to treat bipolar disorder.

Kifuji went on to approve a double dosage of the medication after Carolyn Riley told her that she was giving Rebecca twice the daily recommended amount.

That’s from the Tufts newspaper. Here’s Lawrence Diller with more detail:

Dr. Kifuji determined that Rebecca at age two had hyperactivity and began prescribing drugs to her at that time. Kifuji changed her diagnosis to bipolar disorder at age three. She also made the same diagnosis for Rebecca’s brother and sister who were nine and seven. All three were receiving variations of these sedating psychiatric medications. Kifuji, who was granted immunity against prosecution to gain her cooperation, testified during the trial that she relied almost exclusively on reports from Rebecca’s mother on the children’s aggressive behavior, sleep problems and history of mental illness in the family to make the diagnosis for the three children.

… [A] three year old was prescribed three psychiatric drugs for bipolar disorder…

… Joseph Biederman, head of Harvard’s Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinic, has long espoused the bipolar diagnosis in children. He and his group have claimed the diagnosis can be made in children as young as two and should be followed by aggressive psychiatric drug interventions…

Once Kifuji’s finished with her busy court appearance schedule, she will be hiring lawyers to defend her against a malpractice suit from the estate of Rebecca Riley.

Tufts thinks she’s great. Happy to have on her board.