It's not a myth.  In the Monday edition of the NYT, there is an article
describing a California state school student (San Diego, maybe?) who killed
his three professors.  I'll track it down for you if you want.
Nancy

>>hi,
>>my dad just told me a story he had heard on the radio, about a
>>student who had handed in his phd-thesis somewhere in the
>>united states, and, after it was rejected, killed three of the
>>lecturers in his university.
>>could anyone supply me with a newspaper-article on this event?
>
>
>I have not heard this one, but there is a remarkably similar piece of
>fiction in the summer fiction issue of the New Yorker. Perhaps this is
>another urban myth?
>
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