Posted on 04/18/2007 1:29:40 PM PDT by harwood
Just heard anchorette report this on pMSNBC
LOL.....I have NO idea WHAT you are talking about! I have never watched that show.
I agree. It’s so ridiculous. Red flags everywhere (a prof refuses to allow him in class, students not attending class because of his behavior, him not responding when asked direct questions by a prof, etc.). It’s been 18 years since I was in a college classroom as a student so maybe it’s really different now, just like high school classes are different in many ways. Why was he still allowed to attend classes or be privately tutored? This is college, he was an adult.
I had a roommate that was looney. Seriously looney. I spent a year living with her and it was hell. I called her mother at one point, no help there. 6 months after graduation I received a form from the federal government, phone calls and eventually one on one interviews because she applied for a job that required some kind of special security classification clearance. I thought long and hard about what I said to them, I didn’t want to be responsible for her not getting a job, she was a math wiz, but she was nuts. I reported her many times to campus security, the RA, campus Admin. but not nearly as many times others had. She was a “loner” and all that but she was nuts. She could also be violent and scared me quite a few times and I’m not easy to scare. Nothing was done about her during our college years, although the university offered to switch my room many times because they couldn’t switch her out since she wasn’t the one complaining. She didn’t act out in classes, those she attended, so there wasn’t an issue there. I can’t imagine that she would have slipped through the system back then had she behaved that way in class.
Yep. That's my take as well. Everything else is overlay -- no pun intended.
You're kidding right? Because otherwise it would be a real crappy thing to spoil a tv show for the West Coasters in the middle of a VA Tech thread with no warning! Thanks a lot jerk!
Yes, it IS great to be able to talk with my kiddo every day. We have always been very close and I know that it's VERY important to have a close relationship with one's family.
This guy was a complete nutjob!!!!! Can anyone say otherwise with the ranting that he uttered??????
And mailing the packages in between the two shootings too???
I wonder what his parents must be going through. “Hell on Earth” seems pretty accurate.
If you have no idea why he called himself Ishmael, why would you say that the most obvious answer is hatred? Most of us who see the Islam connection hope we are dead wrong but it needs to be explored since PravdABDNC is not going to.
If you don’t have the answer you really can’t rip people who are attempting to find an answer. Thinking outside of the box is not hate but exploring different theories. What if you are wrong and we are right?? Is it hate then?
If you are right, great. The hopeful answer is he was a psycho, the scary answer is that he went Mooselip terrorist. Especially when he says he has terror in his heart.
I just don’t understand why you would want to limit anything right now?
Pray for W and Va Tech
Once Sarah had a child, Ishmael got demoted.
People from his high school class knew that he was weird. No, they didn't know what his favorite food was, but they "knew" him.
You're really stretching...................LOL
Good posts. Now I think I get it.
The person who declared him was a “danger” ordered outpatient treatment for him. Ugh.
What needs to change is that if a person is deemed a “danger” then inpatient treatment should be required? So that the mental health professionals can better diagnose and treat the person?
I don’t know what the answer is, either. This has brought back memories of a girl in my college history class. She was odd, to say the least. We wondered why she wasn’t kicked out of the college. Then I found out what her real problem was from a kindly professor who knew I would not gossip about her and would try to befriend her. I did try. But she dropped out of school soon after anyway. It was so sad.
What was the real problem: her father had recently died and her mother was mentally ill. She trying to look after her mother, work and go to school. One day, she came home from class and found her mother had murdered her beloved cat in a most cruel and horrible way and there were parts of the cat all over the house.
Of course the poor child seemed odd. Only a crazy person would NOT freak out in such horrid circumstances. The poor girl was very intelligent and very sweet. If only she had had a chance. I wonder what ever became of her. I still pray for her from time to time.
What can be done? I don’t know.
Cho was a "game player" ( in the sense that he was playing a role, in real life ) and sent cryptic, puzzle messages to people's phones. And nobody who got these messages, could ever figure out what they meant.
Look at the pictures he sent to NBC......there's NOTHING on either arm.
My kid’s in college now. He’s a Senior and his profs have all been very straightforward about grading. Many of his classes, it’s three tests for the entire semester...you either do well or you don’t. Some profs have cut their class size by half by the withdraw date, and of those left, they still pass only about 60 percent.
For some of his classes, especially early on he had writing assignments (Comp, etc.) and occasionally he has to submit a paper now, but the guidelines are very strict about what they want, etc. and it doesn’t seem to me that any prof in any of his classes have “given grades away.” (it’s a state U, so maybe because tuition is cheaper they don’t get the hassles that some of the private institutions get from students/parents when the kids have to retake a class or don’t do well.)
I know a prof at an Ivy League U who says he is absolutely hated and harrassed because he won’t compromise on his grades. Calls from parents, pleas from students to change their grades, but he believes you have to earn the grade.
I was so surprised to find at a school of VaTech’s reputation that a kid like this, whose writing was so 5th grader like, could actually make it to their Senior year.
Oh, he was most certainly a coward.
Oh good grief....get a clue!
Vote for Pedro.
:-)
You’re a ferret in your own mind Olbermann.
Have you never heard of/read/seen the book, which was turned into a movie, called "THE HANDMAIDEN'S TALE"? If you have, where do you think the title and a bit of the story came from?
He was a democrat then...?
prisoner6
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