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Certainly Cho's behavior--between the stalking complaint, the taking of pictures under his desk--will now force colleges around the country to draw a firmer line between what is acceptable behavior in a creative setting and what is dangerous. Even Facebook ramblings, not to mention poetry-class offerings, may soon trigger an automatic response by schools to pick up the lost souls that dot every campus and keep them at safe distance from their peers. But that tension between preserving the free spirit and openness of an academic community and protecting students from real dangers may take years...
...Faculty Council voted yesterday in favor of requiring all Faculty members to undergo student evaluations and granting the Committee on Mind, Brain, and Behavior (MBB) the power to create its own courses...
...Capitol Building in Washington in 1998, was a paranoid schizophrenic. Brain injury in an otherwise healthy person can lead to similar violence. Damage to the frontal region of the brain, which regulates what psychologists call the observing ego, or the limbic region, which controls violence, reflection and defensive behavior, can shut down internal governors and trigger all manner of unregulated behavior. "Somebody who had damage to both regions would be a bad player for sure," says forensic psychiatrist Neil Kaye, a faculty member at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia...
...Giovanni recalled that Cho "was very intimidating to my other students." Eventually, other kids began skipping class because of his behavior. The poet then wrote to Roy, the English professor and creative-writing department head, to ask that Cho be removed from the poetry class. "He seemed to be crying behind his sunglasses," Roy told CNN. "It was like talking to a hole sometimes.... Everything emptied out and seemed very dark when he entered." Roy shared her concerns with campus police and counselors, but they told her that unless his threats were explicit, there was little they could...
Lucinda Roy, professor of English at Virginia Tech, said that she, too, relayed her concerns to campus police and various other college units after Cho displayed antisocial behavior in her class and handed in disturbing writing assignments...