December 7, 2009

Safer, but Not Immune: An Intervention-Team Member Discusses How Campuses Handle Threats

U. of Wisconsin at River Falls

Sandi Scott Duex says behavioral-intervention teams may need to talk directly to students who are of concern.

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U. of Wisconsin at River Falls

Sandi Scott Duex says behavioral-intervention teams may need to talk directly to students who are of concern.

By Robin Wilson

It wasn't a secret that the graduate student suspected of murdering an anthropology professor at Binghamton University last Friday was upset.

The suspect, Abdulsalam S. al-Zahrani, apparently had said some troubling things to his roommates and others in the weeks before the fatal stabbing of the professor, Richard T. Antoun, who was on Mr. Zahrani's dissertation committee.

Mr. Zahrani, who is 46 and from Saudi Arabia, is charged with second-degree murder in the professor's