Reply #59: I disagree [View All]

[Marie26]

The VTech professors did take the time to meet with him and refer him to counseling. He simply refused to go. They also notified school authorities & the campus police. He was so disturbing, other students stopped coming to class, so an English professor gave him personal tutoring & attempted to ask him about his problems, without success. What else could they have done?

"Lucinda Roy said that in October of 2005 she was contacted as head of the English Department by a professor who was disturbed by a piece of his writing. Ms. Roy, rebuffed by Mr. Cho, contacted the campus police, counseling services, student affairs and officials in her department. Ms. Roy described the writing as a “veiled threat rather than something explicit.”

University officials told her that she could drop Mr. Cho from the class. Or, they said, she could tutor him individually, and she agreed to do so three times from October to December 2005. During those sessions, she said in an interview, he always wore sunglasses and a baseball cap pulled low. Nikki Giovanni, whose poetry classes Mr. Cho attended in 2005, said today that other students had left the class because of Mr. Cho, and she was so concerned about his behavior that she wrote to Ms. Roy about it.

Ms. Roy said she contacted the campus police, student affairs, counseling services, the college, and the police, who offered to provide security for Ms. Giovanni during classes, but she declined. The police would take no further action because Mr. Cho’s works contained no direct threats, she said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/us/18gunman.html?bl&ex=1177041600&en=406dda3f52cd0455&ei=5087%0A