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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: KLP who wrote (203197)4/18/2007 5:04:45 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (4) of 793843
 
>>we can't haul someone in just because they "might do something"....<<

IMO he should have been pre-emptively expelled from the university. One of his professors was so concerned that she threatened to quit if he wasn't removed from her class. We could see lawsuits over this issue...

Va. gunman had 2 past stalking cases
news.yahoo.com

Professors and classmates were alarmed by his class writings — pages filled with twisted, violence-drenched writing.

"It was not bad poetry. It was intimidating," poet Nikki Giovanni, one of his professors, told CNN.

"I know we're talking about a youngster, but troubled youngsters get drunk and jump off buildings," she said. "There was something mean about this boy. It was the meanness — I've taught troubled youngsters and crazy people — it was the meanness that bothered me. It was a really mean streak."

Giovanni said her students were so unnerved by Cho's behavior, including taking pictures of them with his cell phone, that some stopped coming to class and she had security check on her room. She eventually had him taken out of her class, after threatening to quit if he wasn't removed.
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