One of my favorite professors at OU has been murdered.
At Ohio, seniors are required to take what's called a "Tier III," which is one of only a handful of classes offered each quarter that are "synthesis" classes; while they focus on one particular subject, they are designed to incorporate knowledge from a variety of fields and culminate in a capstone project that has both collaborative and individual aspects.
My Tier III was with Dr. Bebb, and it was titled The Renaissance through Machiavelli. It synthesized literature, politics, and history and was an amazing class -- we focused on The Prince of course, but my favorite part of the class was reading Machiavelli's comedy play La Mandragola in the original Italian. It was a memorable class, one held in blistering-hot Ellis hall in the Spring... I seem to recall it being the only class I earned an A in that term.
What's really sad is that police are investigating his son, an OU grad student, as the murderer.
Really sad.
Unbelievably jarring. I can't imagine the shock to the system that you're experiencing; it's not just some detached event if you've had past involvement with the people affected.