Gunman taken to mental health facility in 2005

thisislondon.co.uk ^ | 18.04.07

[Names Ash Housewares]

It emerged today that at one stage students were so scared of his behaviour that only seven out of 70 turned up for class, forcing lecturers to give him one-to-one tuition.

One teacher even suggested today he was given A grades because he was so "intimidating and staff wanted to keep him happy".

Nikki Giovanni, who teaches poetry, said she threatened to resign if Cho was not taken out of her class. She said: "I think he liked the idea he was a scary guy. Some people like that. That is how they define themselves. Kids write about murder and suicide all the time. But there was something that made us all pay attention closely.

"Students absolutely would not come into class. They said, 'He is taking photographs of us. We don't know what he is doing. It is very strange'."

[Names Ash Housewares]

Intimidating and bullying mass amounts of students and teachers. And this doesn't get you expelled and a restraining order because why exactly?

This total NUT should have been dealt with a long time ago??

WTF is wrong with this school?????

And MAN talk about liberalism madness, giving the guy A grades because they are scared of him???

[nmh]

WHY wsn’t this creep EXPELLED?

This school is INSANE with what it will “tolerate”.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

From personal two-year experience, Virginia Tech is eat up with liberalism. That’s why they tolerated and appeased him, because they were scared silly by him.

[SolidWood]

The should have shredded his visa and kicked him out of the US. Disgusting political correct cowards.

[goodwithagun]

Don’t you intolerant conservatives understand? He was expressing his unique personality to the world. SARC

[Broker]

Political Correctness has a price... He gave VA Tech a unique diversity mix. A diversity of race and VALUEs.

This is no joke DUKE director of admissions came to Atlanta last year and boasted their emphasis on a Diversity of VALUEs.

[Names Ash Housewares]

I bet it is because he was asian.

Racist to expell psychos if they aren’t white.

IF it was a white guy doing this stuff, BAM! OUT LIKE THAT!

[chaos_5]

Expel a minority? Heck no, they just needed to understand his “cultural narrative”.

[rightwingextremist1776]

Yup, this whole thing can be laid at the feet of LIBERALS on so many levels. Of course this will never be seen as that in the MSM. Can’t solve a problem until it is correctly identified. It’s going to be a long time until LIBERALS are unidentified as the real problem by the general public.

[seacapn]

Virginia Tech is going to have a rough time defending itself once the lawsuits start flying.

[ukie55]

The way to prevent massacres like this is not gun control, it’s taking care of unstable people like this. He gave them plenty of signals but in today’s oh so PC culture, we don’t want to risk *offending* anyone by suggesting something bad about them. And this is the result.

[Diogenesis]

Nikki Giovanni

BLACKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- As tales of Cho Seung-Hui's worrisome behavior continued to surface Wednesday, a renowned poet and author
who taught the 23-year-old suspected gunman called the notion that he was troubled "crap" and said he was downright "mean."
Nikki Giovanni was in San Francisco, California, getting ready to fly home to Blacksburg
when she heard the news Monday that 32 students were killed in separate shooting incidents on the Virginia Tech campus.
"I knew when it happened that that's probably who it was," Giovanni said, referring to her former pupil. "I would have been shocked if it wasn't."
Though Giovanni, another professor, Cho's former roommates and a classmate all recall Cho behaving in a disturbing manner --
and authorities confirm he was investigated after being accused of stalking a woman -- there was nothing criminal about his demeanor.>

Lucinda Roy

A professor warned authorities about Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui
after the student turned in violent creative writing pieces and exhibited troubling behavior,
but she was told intervention would require overcoming too many legal hurdles.
Officials today identified the 23-year-old South Korean student as the killer of up to 32 people at the Virginia school, the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
Lucinda Roy, who taught Cho in a poetry class in fall of 2005, told ABC News she later worked with him one-on-one after becoming concerned about his behavior and themes in his writings.
Roy, co-director of the creative writing program at Virginia Tech, said she asked Cho to go to counseling, but he never went.
She said while she found nothing explicit in Cho's writings, threats were there under the surface.
Roy also said she was concerned for her safety when she met with Cho.
She told ABC the student seemed "extraordinarily lonely – the loneliest person I have ever met in my life."
He wore sunglasses indoors with a cap pulled low over his eyes, whispered, took 20 seconds to answer questions and took cellphone pictures of her in class, Roy said.
Cho wrote a play called "Richard McBeef" in which he describes a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of pedophilia. The story ends with the boy's death.
Another piece, called "Mr. Brownstone," has three high-school students facing an abusive teacher.
"I wanna kill him," says one character.
"I wanna watch him bleed like the way he made us kids bleed," says another.

[dawn53]

He wasn’t on a visa. He had lived here since he was 8 and had permanent residency, i.e. a green card.

That being said, after reading his plays, I wondered how he had made it to his senior year without “flunking out”...his writing was very poor quality for any college student, much less an English grad. This article seems to answer that question, the teachers were intimidated.

[P-40]

I haven't looked in their student handbook but I assume it is similar to the one at the local university here...and fitting a rule to the killer's case might have been kind of hard. They may have been waiting for the semester to be over...which it soon would have been.

http://www.utexas.edu/policies/hoppm/02.A.03.html

[MarkeyD]

Which is the same thing Muslim extremists are doing.

[Names Ash Housewares]

Agreed!

I had no idea this muderous loon was so blatant and obvious by what was being reported so far. Just a quiet troubled strange fellow is what we have been told by the MSM.

If this is all true. then this rests squarely at the feet of the school. They did little to nothing meaningful to protect other students from a clear threat nutter.

[TC Rider]

And MAN talk about liberalism madness, giving the guy A grades because they are scared of him???

It goes a long way toward explaining why he had the writing skills of a 5th grader.

Personally, I'm offended that they keep referring to him as a 'gunman'. He was no 'gunman', he was a madman with a gun.

[fishergirl]

And don’t forget that he set his/a dorm room on fire! Has anyone heard any details on the fire? Sounds like he could have endangered other students’ lives. During a press conference with police this morning, someone asked about Cho’s displinary record with the school. An official said that the record was sealed even after death and even Cho’s parents couldn’t access it. Makes me wonder what all is in that displinary record and if it contains details about the fire. I agree, this psycho should have been kicked out.

[nmh]

LIberals are cowards ... that makes sense ... but to put OTHERS at risk is WRONG. The reputation of this school just took a nose dive. Social promotion because of being SCARED of the student ... absurd! SUrely there is one conservative there that has the balls to throw him out!

He should have been thrown out.

[dead]

I went to Rutgers 20 years ago, and there was at least six or seven people I remember roaming the halls that I would have expelled for being potentially dangerously weird. Another five or so in town who I would have booted too.

The White Rasta - he was seriously creepy. This weird ninja freak who wore studded leather and carried Chinese stars and went by the name of Kato - another psycho. Various smelly freaks who decided to occupy the student center to protest something nobody cared about.

Universities are crawling with lunatics. Worse than Philadelphia.