24-07-2012, 10:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 24-07-2012, 10:53 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
AURORA, Colo.--University of Colorado-Denver officials said faculty in the neuroscience graduate program handled themselves appropriately in interactions with shooting suspect James Holmes. Holmes dropped out of the program a few days after he took his first year oral exam, which he reportedly failed.
Graduate School Dean Barry Shur said he felt "very comfortable" saying that university members closely monitor students for signs of academic and emotional problems, and that Holmes was no exception. Reporters questioned Shur and University of Colorado-Denver Chancellor Don Elliman closely about whether faculty noticed signs of mental illness in Holmes, but the university is declining to say anything specific about the former student. Shur said that graduate students are part of a "family" and generally see their advisers every single day.
Holmes took his oral exam, which is designed to test students' foundational knowledge before they continue the program, on June 7. Holmes sent an email to faculty on June 10 asking to withdraw, and was given a form that requires his advisers' and the dean's signatures. Shur said that Holmes had not filled out the portion of the form that asks for a reason for withdrawal, even though he was encouraged to do so. The form never made it to Shur's desk, so Holmes was not formally withdrawn from the university when he allegedly went on a shooting spree last Friday in a local movie theater.
Shur said that students who fail oral exams are offered help to retake it. "The exam is not to throw students out," he said, adding that it's "very unusual" for a student to drop out of one of CU's graduate programs. Schur said Holmes had excellent academic credentials, and was among a handful of students chosen for a National Institutes of Health training grant in neuroscience.
Officials also confirmed that no dangerous chemicals were found missing from the labs where Holmes worked, and said he lost access to university buildings on June 10. Holmes received at least 50 packages to his home and school in the run-up to the attacks.
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Some interesting things above. That's a lot of packages - more so, when one considers that all the guns were supposedly purchased in person from shops and can not be bought via the internet. The more one learns, the less the whole picture fits together about 'Lee Harvey Holmes', IMHO. I don't know his personal finances or how generous his NIH support was, but most Grad Students just get by. The Police have estimated the chemicals, guns, bullets etc. cost at least $15,000 and some have calculated $20,000. Not a small sum for a student. Little fits logically....the advisor and staff saw him almost daily and yet they noted nothing strange - or so they'd have us believe. He gave a complex lecture in May and here we are mid July he is fully 'deranged' or mind-controlled.
Graduate School Dean Barry Shur said he felt "very comfortable" saying that university members closely monitor students for signs of academic and emotional problems, and that Holmes was no exception. Reporters questioned Shur and University of Colorado-Denver Chancellor Don Elliman closely about whether faculty noticed signs of mental illness in Holmes, but the university is declining to say anything specific about the former student. Shur said that graduate students are part of a "family" and generally see their advisers every single day.
Holmes took his oral exam, which is designed to test students' foundational knowledge before they continue the program, on June 7. Holmes sent an email to faculty on June 10 asking to withdraw, and was given a form that requires his advisers' and the dean's signatures. Shur said that Holmes had not filled out the portion of the form that asks for a reason for withdrawal, even though he was encouraged to do so. The form never made it to Shur's desk, so Holmes was not formally withdrawn from the university when he allegedly went on a shooting spree last Friday in a local movie theater.
Shur said that students who fail oral exams are offered help to retake it. "The exam is not to throw students out," he said, adding that it's "very unusual" for a student to drop out of one of CU's graduate programs. Schur said Holmes had excellent academic credentials, and was among a handful of students chosen for a National Institutes of Health training grant in neuroscience.
Officials also confirmed that no dangerous chemicals were found missing from the labs where Holmes worked, and said he lost access to university buildings on June 10. Holmes received at least 50 packages to his home and school in the run-up to the attacks.
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Some interesting things above. That's a lot of packages - more so, when one considers that all the guns were supposedly purchased in person from shops and can not be bought via the internet. The more one learns, the less the whole picture fits together about 'Lee Harvey Holmes', IMHO. I don't know his personal finances or how generous his NIH support was, but most Grad Students just get by. The Police have estimated the chemicals, guns, bullets etc. cost at least $15,000 and some have calculated $20,000. Not a small sum for a student. Little fits logically....the advisor and staff saw him almost daily and yet they noted nothing strange - or so they'd have us believe. He gave a complex lecture in May and here we are mid July he is fully 'deranged' or mind-controlled.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
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