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Pastimes : Murder Mystery: Who Killed Yale Student Suzanne Jovin? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (725)	3/31/2000 1:51:00 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1397

Nonetheless, it is a fact that our daughter experienced great distress during the last week of her life because of the irresponsible actions of her teacher detailed above. Two days before she died, she made this abundantly and tearfully clear to Dean Susan Hauser, with whom she worked. Upon Suzanne's request, Dean Hauser took no action, a judgment we would question in retrospect. Understandable Suzanne might have been upset over a missed appointment. Understandable that she voiced her frustration to anyone who would listen; that's something we all do from time to time. However, what doesn't "connect" here is that we find out, for the first time, that no administrator at Yale informed Professor Van de Velde anything was wrong... yet Mr. Jovin and the New Haven police apparently believe (hope?) that somehow rebuke was a motivation for murder(!). I pray none of us ever have to experience the tragedy the Jovins have had to endure, and I pray someday soon the family gets the closure they deserve... but I think the family needs to come to the reality that a) the New Haven police are incompetent, b) Yale doesn't give a damn, and c) the only other person who really gives a damn is the one the incompetent New Haven police have proclaimed the main and apparently only suspect. How unfortunate. - Jeff

To: Jeffrey S. Mitchell who wrote (725)	4/1/2000 5:30:00 PM
From: Janice Shell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1397

I feel their pain, but this is ridiculous: In the aftermath of the murder, it became obvious to us (and others) that our daughter had been exposed to bizarre, unethical and unprofessional teaching practices in the Political Science course PLSC 182a, during the fall term of 1998. The lecturer teaching this course pledged the students to secrecy in a clandestine project devoted to collecting information about the design and deployment of weapons of mass destruction (e.g. capable of wiping out the crowd at the Superbowl), and brandished a gun (presumably a simulation indistinguishable from the real thing) in a demonstration of intimidation in another course (PLSC 197a). Most importantly, he failed to provide Suzanne with guidance as she worked on her senior essay, a central requirement for graduation.