<p>b4l: I won’t get into things w/you. Good luck w/your college search and future plans. I stand my my original questioning of your logic or intuition and am sincerely sorry that I was derogatory in tone.</p>
<p>Given the seriousness of this thread, let’s bury the hatchet</p>
<p>T: I’ve already graduated from college, mind you, majoring in Law and Society. How do you describe the fact that he’s already a suspect given his DNA matching? You choose not to give that consideration? It was my intuition the second round that went a little over-board. An affiliation with Asian Awareness can be tantamount to further objective in a suspect. I don’t understand why you choose to adamantly reject that consideration. Initially I argue that she might have rejected him for wedding another man and he wanted to get even with her near the end, as horrible of a person he is. The Asian Awareness was just a thought, not to overload it into objective analysis. </p>
<p>Stop assuming things.</p>
<p>Guys…come on. This thread is about a deceased bride-to-be who was brutally murdered and we’re arguing over something like this? Let’s show some respect, if not to each other, then to Annie, okay? </p>
<p>I got chills just reading the news and finding out what happened. I pray she rests in peace, and the murderer recieves the appropriate punishment.</p>
<p>Quote from Mr. Levin:
An article written by New York Times reporters says otherwise. It also reported that Yale authority instructed employee not to talk to reporters.</p>
<p>It appears to me that this guy thought this was his lab. And was upset when researchers were not doing as asked. Except that in reality, this guy and the researchers should never have interact with each others. Lack of supervision, if you ask me. If he was displeased by researchers not following rules, he should have talk to his supervisor, who in turn would have approached the prof in charge, who in turn would have talk to his team of researchers. We hear now other researchers coming out and saying he was over neat. Noone in there never asked: Who is this guy? What is his job exactly? And talked to higher authority about it.</p>
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According to the New York Times, some researcher did reported to his supervisors about being treated rudely.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/nyregion/18yale.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/nyregion/18yale.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2</a></p>
<p>These kinds of workplace conflicts happen all the time, everywhere. Television shows are based on these often comical power struggles: The Office, Thirty Rock, etc. Who could ever have anticipated the tragic twist this one took? HR departments everywhere must be scrutinizing their employees’ files for weird behavior. The Le murder investigation will reveal more about the murderer’s history at work and otherwise, but whether those details will point to this outcome is yet to be seen.</p>
<p>I did not know that. Then I wonder if reprimandes provoked him, and he went for the most vulnerable one (being smaller and all).</p>
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<p>I don’t think this is true. I think it happens more often in academic labs. The profs generally do not manage people’s behavior. They are in charge of one thing–producing papers, and unless it gets to be really extreme they often let people just fight it out. </p>
<p>Obnoxious behavior that would get someone fired in a company might result in a suggestion to be more respectful in an academic lab. </p>
<p>Concerning the Yale president’s statement, I think he’s right that this could have happened anywhere (meaning any university.) However, this does reek of covering his own posterior. When there was a death at MIT, the president’s statement included the statement, “It could have happened anywhere.” University presidents are hardwired to not shift blame away from the university whenever possible.</p>
<p>^^I’ll grant you it feels like there is an element of CYA in the statement about this incident potentially happening anywhere. I also think Yale press releases and emails to students and parents have been written in an effort to calm them/us and help frame this event as not something students are specifically more vulnerable to at Yale than any other place. Clearly, Yale frequently finds itself answering the question, “How safe is New Haven?”</p>
<p>If you are a female, esp with a small frame, make sure you have an exit route before challenging a male control freak.</p>
<p>Are there any wesleyan students here?? kinda creepy that this guy TOTALLY lives in the town where we go to school. but then again, if you’re familiar with middletown, CT – or most of poor connecticut for that matter – its not THAT surprising. still, though, very SAD… and SCARY.</p>
<p>Middletown had to deal earlier this year with an anti-semitic psycho who fixated on a Jewish Wesleyan student and murdered her in public. That was far more frightening for the people of the town and that school.</p>
<p>It’s pretty crazy. My dad’s architecture firm actually designed the building in which Annie Le was murdered and the phone has been ringing off the hook.</p>
<p>First things first: I’m sad that she’s dead and I hope that her murderer is convicted.</p>
<p>Now, having said that, and at the risk of sounding a discordant note, I think the coverage of this murder is an example of Missing White (or, in this case, Asian) Woman Syndrome. Let’s face it: there are ~50 homicides every day in this country. Heck, there are plenty of murders still yet unsolved just in the city of New Haven. Why is this particular murder being reported by CNN and not the others? What makes this one so special?</p>
<p>The crucial factor seems to be that she’s a cute Asian girl. That’s it. I doubt that her wedding had much to do with it, nor that she was a student at Yale. After all, if I were a student at Yale and I went missing on my wedding day, let’s face it, nobody would care. Certainly CNN’s not going to be sending down an entire reporting crew to broadcast a live report on whatever happened to sakky. Ann Curry isn’t going to run a live interview with my old friends from high school as she recently did with Le’s friend, Laurel Griffeath. Meredith Vieira won’t be interviewing my pastor. </p>
<p>But of course, I’m not a cute Asian girl.</p>
<p>Our society tends to more highly value graduate students dedicating themselves to better society through scientific research at a highly regarded university than your average murder victim.</p>
<p>There are some appropriate comparison cases recently: Last year a male, African graduate student was killed in a 1 am mugging near the University of Chicago, and a blonde, female, highly attractive UNC class president was carjacked and killed in Chapel Hill. Both cases received some national publicity (the latter more than the former), but nowhere near as much as this case has, in large part no doubt because they lacked the element of mystery this case has (plus the extra pathos provided by the wedding plans and the initial speculation that she might be a runaway bride). On the other hand, both cases were thoroughly reported, especially by their local media – much more so than run-of-the-mill cases involving street violence.</p>
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<p>I agree that this is probably true. But…it is television reporting after all, so you will not see many ugly people on screen at all, unless they are amazing actors or comedians. Visual aesthetics rule and bring in the $$ in television/film. If this is wrong, what can or should be done about it?</p>
<p>I wonder what may be the motive for the murderer to commit this crime. I do not think it was planned. It is almost like spontaneous rage that is out of control. I even suspect that he may NOT have an extremely negative attitude toward the victim before that deadly meeting in the basement. Whatever he or she said during that meeting might have triggered this.</p>
<p>I heard that at the age of 24, there are only 3 factors that may cause somebody to do something like this: money, love and disrespect. I suspect it is the last one.</p>
<p>How can we prevent this from happening in the future? Is there anything we can do? For example, should the meeting like this be held in a semi-public place?</p>