<p>I think it is pretty clear that Amy Bishop was not prepared to be denied tenure. Was she surprised? I don’t know, by the time the decision was handed down she must have known it was going that way. But she found the decision unacceptable and maybe the fact that her degree was from Harvard played into that, who knows.</p>
<p>I think the key to what went so wrong was in an email the police found when they were investigating the mail bomb sent to one of Amy Bishop’s Harvard professors. It alluded to the terrible shooting years before and how being a brilliant academic could somehow atone for what had happened. Without tenure she now couldn’t atone for the terrible incident from her past.</p>