It's August of 2000, and a graduate student at the University of Arkansas dismissed from the doctoral program charges into a university office with a .38 caliber revolver, shoots and kills his advisor, then turns the gun on himself. May 2001 arrives, and with it, another murder: A gunman with no affiliation to Pacific Lutheran University (WA) shoots a music professor in a bizarre, random killing related to a university employee. He, too, kills himself. A year later, in January 2002, a student placed on academic suspension from the Appalachian School of Law (VA) opens fire in the s