No it's not a urban myth.  The story was on the news late last week or
early this week, I also recall it was a male Master's student, not a PhD
student, but I'm at a loss as to where it was.

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>>> Ivy Strickler <[log in to unmask]> 08/21/96 10:09am
>>>
>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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