Campus shootings (and
shooting sprees generally) have become so commonplace that I don’t usually
bother to comment on them.
But yesterday’s incident at UCLA, in which a former graduate student killed an engineering
professor and one other person before killing himself, caught my
attention. You see, one of the shooter’s
reasons for killing the prof was over a grade he had received from the victim.
According to news
reports, the professor was well respected and actually popular with students
and staff alike.
There but before
the grace of God go I…
