On Sept. 10, 2000, after Knight was warned multiple times, a confrontation between Knight and an Indiana student prompted the school's president, Myles Brand, to fire him for a pattern of "defiant and hostile" behavior.

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But a V-shaped pattern by one of the doors suggested that the fire had originated elsewhere.

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