Posted on 04/18/2007 8:14:16 AM PDT by 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'."
(Excerpt) Read more at thisislondon.co.uk ...
How and what the heck did he get two guns onto a school that is gun free? If they are serious about this instead of lip service, they would be taking action to ensure that no guns are on school property. I don’t agree with this, but if you are going to have this rule than make sure that rules work. Search all luggage before they enter University, go through medal detectors everytime they arrive in school, have searches of rooms, smiffing dogs. Hey that is what you do in a no gun school...(That should be a reason not to make a school gun free, but the stupid “in chargers” are to stupid to realize it and then are not smart enough to keep the rules kept...
It's so sad. Truly sick people who can't help themselves are treated as if they have free will, but healthy people who actually do have the capacity to make choices ---- are often excused in their behaviors as helpless victims of their genes or the environment that "programmed" them.
Compulsory hospitalization isn't cruel or unfair, when it's the only way to save a life.
I'll call BS on that. If she can't produce a written record of it, I consider it drama-crap.
A greencard (resident alien) can be rescinded, can’t it?
But he was not an “out of country student”. He was a resident alien long before he went to college. He was not here on a “student visa”. And “student status” is not known to gun dealers or anyone else for that matter.
Getting mentally ill people committed and keeping them there costs money. It is much cheaper (imo) to simply get the 2nd Amendment to mean what it plainly says - no government can tell you (short of due process [i.e. a trial jury]) that you can’t bear arms.
It is not that people do not want to help these people; they are not allowed. The law will not let them.
It's that simple.
They couldn't find a black stripper to allege that he raped her.
Sounds like the Administration was holding their breaths and hoping he wouldn’t do this. Sounds like it wasn’t hard to figure out who it was, just how to CYA. If he were White he would have been gone a year ago or had the crap beat out of him.
Pray for W and Va Tech
I’m am so sick and tired of these “anti-depressant” massacres...
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Then write to Congress and Senators.
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” — Margaret Mead
http://www.antidepressantsfacts.com/casualties.htm
"I'll call BS on that. If she can't produce a written record of it, I consider it drama-crap."
It's ture. The department head verified it and stated that she,(the department head) was giving private tutoring to the Cho because of the professor's objections to him.gunman.
My speculation is that the poetry professor had such clout due to her national reputation as a famous poet that she could insist Cho be removed from her class. Other professors may have wanted him out but didn't have the political power to make a stink. Academia is very political.
Thanks daus. Just read the McBeef one. sick stuff. looks like something written by an angry 16 year old.
what basis for lawsuits?
It's not just this school. It's every public college. This is what happens when you make the INSANE into a protected minority group whom the rest of us are expected to tolerate, no matter what they do or appear ready to do.
“They couldn’t find a black stripper to allege that he raped her.”
Ain’t that the truth!
Ooops, truth doesn’t matter anymore. It’s all abour FEELINGS and not wishing to offend someone no matter how nuts they are.
For many schools it is all about money.
The more international students enrolled the more money paid to them by the students and certain governments.
I remember years ago that someone wanted to put curbs on foreign students and many universities had a complete meltdown.
One university in Oklahoma had a majority of it’s students enrolled from foreign countries.
Therefore, any law curbing foreign participation would have severely curtailed raises and new buildings for the school.
Interesting....I don’t consider her a credible person so I’m surprised she’s telling the truth.
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