Daily Newsie

I was looking for some background noise so I could properly do my homework when I stumbled upon an episode of “Snapped” on the Oxygen network. Imagine my surprise when I heard a very familiar name: Fred Jablin. He was a well-known communication researcher and professor who was shot in 2004 by his ex-wife in his driveway while their kids slept upstairs … and he also authored a paper about organizational disengagement that I used quite heavily in my case study for Applied Org. Comm. To me, his name is as recognizable as a movie star’s, which either makes me a loser or a darn good graduate student.

I knew he was murdered, and I looked up quite a few articles on the crime, but it’s still weird to hear his name on television. I leaned on his article so much last semester, it’s almost like he was a mentor of sorts.

Thanks for the A, Dr. Jablin. I wonder what else you could have taught us.