Recent content by joe2857

I don't see this as a contradiction. I think the difference between what the university policy says (pass/fail, immediate dismissal) and what the administrator in the article is quoted as saying is the difference between what the university CAN do in theory and what it ACTUALLY tends to do in...

The frustrating thing here is that "Jimbo" is a very common nickname and user name. There may be a ton of "Jimbos" on the web who do drugs but are not the shooter. It's hard to track the online footprint of someone who has a very common name and uses very common nicknames.

I don't know why we need confirmations about the university's process, unless someone can present some evidence that the university might be lying or not following its own rules, and I haven't seen any evidence of that. And I wasn't trying to suggest that the university was being flexible or...

Sorry for jumping in late, and I don't want to beat a dead horse, but there is nothing odd at all about JH taking his prelim exam after the semester is over. These exams are tough to schedule because they are oral exams and you need to find a time when everyone can meet -- the student and the...

Keep in mind that JH was only one year into a program that takes 5 to 7 years. And the first year was mostly coursework. The intensive research phase of the program had not yet begun. So JH's adviser may not have known him as well as he/she would know a student who's further along in the...

Stupid, lazy reporting. The stuff about hookers is the NY Post repeating a TMZ story that claims the shooter visited a prostitution site on the web. But TMZ is falling into the trap of assuming that there is only one JH of Aurora and therefore anything on the web linked to that name must be the...

Yes, the oral exam would be a comprehensive exam that would be independent of his classes and his course grades. Also, graduate programs sometimes operate according to their own schedules rather than following the official university calendar.

Apologies if it's already been posted, but this is from the Washington Post, which is more reputable than the Daily Mail. Of course, it's coming from anonymous sources, and it only says that the mother was concerned about her son becoming withdrawn, not that she suspected he'd do something...

Here's the link to the story where the gun store customer claims he saw Holmes with pink hair and earrings: http://www.9news.com/news/local/article/278850/222/Man-claims-he-saw-Holmes-getting-scope-installed

Yes, HIPAA is for health records. But FERPA (the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act) generally prohibits schools from releasing details about a student's grades or education records unless they get that student's consent.

We don't know that "I have to contact the police...I have to fly to Colorado" is ALL she said. That is only the part that is quoted in the article. She may have said other things in between "You have the right person" and "I have to contact the police" that were not included in the article. We...

The link to the original ABC report has already been posted and reposted (and discussed) several times on this thread. Here it is again. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/aurora-dark-knight-shooting-suspect-identified-james-holmes/story?id=16818889#.UA4Z2aP93Zk It was always "You have the...

No, the quote was "You have the right PERSON." The original article has been posted before by me and others in this thread. Here's the link again: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/aurora-dark-knight-shooting-suspect-identified-james-holmes/story?id=16818889

So the classmate supposedly thinks video games might have contributed to the killings, but he doesn't even know what game JH played, except that it was "one of those where you compete against people on the Internet"? Yeah, right. Just another piece of shoddy journalism from the Daily Mail.

Here's what the original news story said: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/aurora-dark-knight-shooting-suspect-identified-james-holmes/story?id=16818889 Admittedly, the story was written to make it sound as if the mother immediately knew her son might do something like this. But I think the...