Academic Calanders For Colleges Between 1970 And 1980
Apr 1, 2018 19:46:58 GMT
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Post by harriet on Apr 1, 2018 19:46:58 GMT
I wish I could absorb everything that's already been done on this forum before I start digging in. Many ideas I "discover" have already been discovered by someone else - and sometimes disproven!
Maybe someone has already done this:
We need academic calendars for all the colleges in the regions, especially around the years 1975 through the end of fall term in 1978.
Have these already been collected somewhere?
I made a massive (fairly easy in Excel) calendar showing every single day since the first official attack until the Southern California attacks. Something jumped out at me that I'd already heard hints of from on other threads: a couple of months after the attacks began, the attacks seemed to coordinate EXACTLY with typical college terms. I started wondering if this guy weren't a student living away from his parental home during school terms. With the exception of the first set of attacks, there really weren't any significant spurts of attacks during typical college breaks. Even the later summer attacks line up with a typical summer term.
In this scenario, either this guy is going home to his parents during most breaks or he's traveling, or he's got an internship somewhere. And in these other places, he might have been too much surrounded by other people (family?) to sneak out. Or, if he lives far enough away, he could be committing crimes in these shortish breaks that might never be connected to EARS. He could even be an international student.
Within a couple of years, this pattern disappears. To my experienced eye (25 years of teaching English in a community college in that region), this looks like the student a) dropped out, b) was expelled, or c) graduated. He could also have been in military training. Then there's a period of "instability" when the attacks were a bit more geographically sprinkled, and then they settled emphatically around the valley where Hwy 680 runs, curving down to San Jose. That looks more like a paid job than a college calendar. Then, of course, the attacks moved to Southern California. New job?
If the student were academically unstable, we might predict a shift from one college to another, meaning that we'd find pieces of his crime history corresponding to the calendars for different colleges.
If we could get Academic Calendars scanned and posted, we might find term start and ending dates that align really with the spurts of attacks. These documents won't be available online: someone's going to have to ask the Registrar or Admissions and Records office people to scan them - or we may have to drive and request to copy them ourselves.
If I'm lucky, this has already been done.
I won't have time to do this myself. I've already been in trouble for the time I'm spending on this case.
And, of course, I could be completely wrong about all of this. But it's a significant lead -
Maybe someone has already done this:
We need academic calendars for all the colleges in the regions, especially around the years 1975 through the end of fall term in 1978.
Have these already been collected somewhere?
I made a massive (fairly easy in Excel) calendar showing every single day since the first official attack until the Southern California attacks. Something jumped out at me that I'd already heard hints of from on other threads: a couple of months after the attacks began, the attacks seemed to coordinate EXACTLY with typical college terms. I started wondering if this guy weren't a student living away from his parental home during school terms. With the exception of the first set of attacks, there really weren't any significant spurts of attacks during typical college breaks. Even the later summer attacks line up with a typical summer term.
In this scenario, either this guy is going home to his parents during most breaks or he's traveling, or he's got an internship somewhere. And in these other places, he might have been too much surrounded by other people (family?) to sneak out. Or, if he lives far enough away, he could be committing crimes in these shortish breaks that might never be connected to EARS. He could even be an international student.
Within a couple of years, this pattern disappears. To my experienced eye (25 years of teaching English in a community college in that region), this looks like the student a) dropped out, b) was expelled, or c) graduated. He could also have been in military training. Then there's a period of "instability" when the attacks were a bit more geographically sprinkled, and then they settled emphatically around the valley where Hwy 680 runs, curving down to San Jose. That looks more like a paid job than a college calendar. Then, of course, the attacks moved to Southern California. New job?
If the student were academically unstable, we might predict a shift from one college to another, meaning that we'd find pieces of his crime history corresponding to the calendars for different colleges.
If we could get Academic Calendars scanned and posted, we might find term start and ending dates that align really with the spurts of attacks. These documents won't be available online: someone's going to have to ask the Registrar or Admissions and Records office people to scan them - or we may have to drive and request to copy them ourselves.
If I'm lucky, this has already been done.
I won't have time to do this myself. I've already been in trouble for the time I'm spending on this case.
And, of course, I could be completely wrong about all of this. But it's a significant lead -