Please read the following news articles from various sources.
“A NANYANG Technological University professor was stabbed by his final-year project student, who later fell off a bridge linking two buildings on the Boon Lay campus on Monday morning.” Straits Times, 2 March 2009.
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_344879.html
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2009/03/stabbing-incident-in-ntu-is-it-really-an-attack/comment-page-1/
http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/geekonomics/post.htm?id=63009411
http://bbqchickenwings.blogspot.com/2009/03/conspiracy-theory-in-ntu-stabbing.html
http://static.stomp.com.sg/static/thecourtroom/ntu/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXOHcOlK4NQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmIYedUnqiA&feature=related
This news shocked the entire NTU community and has given rise to many theories on why the student stabbed his professor before jumping to his death. This has also raised the question on whether citizen journalism can be a good thing for Singapore and also whether mainstream news channels like the Straits Times is being objective in their reporting. The link below gives us the ethics journalists in Asia has to abide by.
http://www.medialaw.com.sg/ethics/jcode.htm
Group 9:
ReplyDeleteOur group believes that the motivation is this... His grades had slipped, and his scholarship was revoked.He became a deranged math genius who lost all sense of rationality. He was depressed and angered when he stabbed the professor. He pissed off since his prof did not give satisfactory grade
The grade has not been released and he even has not submitted the report.
It is also NTu policy not to inform the student about the grade which they got
before release of the result.
He has mental problem
No record in Student Counselling Centre about his attendance. For bright student
as him, I did not believe that he did not attend counseling if he has some
problems. Also, he still brought bag with usual daily stuff, on incident day,
such as drink bottle, towel, etc. If David planned to kill someone why would
he prepare to bring such things. It is easier for him to just bring one knife
and stab his prof on spot.
He pissed off because his scholarship has been revoked
I knew David since I was his roommate for 2 consecutive
years during Mathematical Olympiad training camp. He almost did not
qualify for IMO, only managed to get at 14th rank from 15 people selected.
He still joked and laughed to me at that time. He also did not get anything
from IMO and still fine, not seemed depressed whatsoever, and according to his
parents, he said 'At least, I managed to represent Indonesia at IMO'
He also still play Hammerfall game in Facebook at 2 am on the incident day. My friend
saw his Facebook account online. How come
a murderer played game in the night before incident? If I was him,
I will seriously think how would I prepare myself tomorrow
He pissed off because his scholarship has been revoked
He almost did not
qualify for IMO, only managed to get at 14th rank from 15 people selected.
He still joked and laughed to me at that time. He also did not get anything
from IMO and still fine, not seemed depressed whatsoever, and according to his
parents, he said 'At least, I managed to represent Indonesia at IMO'
He also still play Hammerfall game in Facebook at 2 am on the incident day. My friend
saw his Facebook account online. How come
a murderer played game in the night before incident? If I was him,
I will seriously think how would I prepare myself tomorrow
Possibilities:
1. Professor attacked David. I deduced this thing for several key points.
According to many reports, David's cloth was soaked on blood. If the blood is
the result from slashing his wrist, it should not soak his cloth since wrist is
far from body. If the wound is from neck, it is easier.
2. David tried to run from Professor. After he realized that he was attacked,
he resisted and run from that room, with wound on his neck.
3. David falled because of unconsciousness. He became panic and probably lose
his common sense because of terrible bleeding, drop himself down into glassed roof
to escape from his Professor.
Shortly before he was found dead, Mr Widjaja was seen running out of the office of Associate Professor Chan Kap Luk, his Final Year Project supervisor, after allegedly having an argument with him.
During the argument, Mr Widjaja allegedly stabbed Assoc Prof Chan, who suffered cuts to his hand and needed stitches on his back. He was sent to the National University Hospital, and was discharged two days later.
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What could had been the possible reasons why David did what he had did?
1)David too stressed out because of schooling.
Evidences: - friends of David said he was a reserved person.
-David avoid talking to friends on personal life
-Document entitled " Last Words" round in David's laptop.
-David spoke about losing his will to live
-David told his friend he found the Final Year Exam troublesome.
( adapt from www.sgpolitics.net/?tag=david-hartanto-widjaja)
2)Loss of scholarship
Evidence: -Lost of face if other people knew his studies drop and was taken off his ASEAN scholarship
-Did not tell friends scholarship was gone.
(adapt from : www.sgpolitics.net/?p=2392)