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...highlight of the plan is an extended winter break that lasts until Jan. 19—thus eliminating the stress of looming papers and exams during vacation. These changes would also, according to the UC’s research, have such diverse yet salutary effects as helping ameliorate mental health concerns on campus, decreasing the University’s energy consumption, and improving athletic scheduling. Though ultimately the decision to change the College’s calendar is in the hands of the administration and governing boards, we hope that this referendum will highlight the broad student support for such...
...December 2005, campus police and mental health professionals in Blacksburg, Va., arranged to have Cho committed to a state psychiatric facility. Cho's brief hospitalization for suspected mental illness was disclosed this morning by Virginia Tech police chief Wendell Flinchum, who said Cho was taken to St. Albans psychiatric hospital in Radford, Va., on Dec. 13 of that year after two women students (neither of whom was among Cho's shooting victims) called campus police complaining that Cho had made troubling contacts with them. A third person - identified last night on CNN as a suite mate...
...Harvey Barker, head of the community mental-health agency called by campus police, told TIME's Michael Lindenberger that his agency had performed an involuntary psychiatric evaluation of Cho before he was committed to St. Albans. "We did an independent evaluation at the request of the police department," Barker said. "We did not make an recommendation [as to whether he was fit to remain on campus or in school]. That was not our role." Neither the campus police department's nor the hospital's records on Cho were part of the material accessed by the state's background-check system...
...Virginia Tech, Cho's mental state seems to have steadily deteriorated beginning in 2005, if not earlier. He sometimes referred to himself as Question Mark and spoke in a whisper, if at all. One of his suite mates told CNN that "he was just like a shadow." A suite mate told TIME that Cho never talked about his family, didn't seem to have friends, and rarely spoke, even to his roommate. He ventured out to attend class, to eat and, since February, to work out at the gym for the first time...
...Several times, Cho's odd behavior indicated to university authorities that he could be dangerous. Virginia Tech police Chief Wendell Flinchum said at a press conference today that a search of his department's records had turned up at least four hits concerning Cho's mental state...