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...wake of last week’s horrific shooting spree at Virginia Tech, which left 32 victims dead along with their killer, analyses of what went wrong have proliferated almost as quickly as solemn condolences. Blogs, newspapers, and television talk shows are abuzz with discussions about critical failings on the part of school and government officials. One of the most damning revelations, reported by The New York Times on April 21, revealed that federal regulations ought to have prohibited the killer, Seung-Hui Cho—who had previously been ordered by a judge to receive psychiatric treatment?...
...would have been our first ever Ivy win in the Stadium. And so everyone came out and we got the job done.” In recent games, the Crimson has struggled with slow starts, often allowing its opponent to open the game with a scoring spree. Junior attack Tara Schoen took matters into her own hands Saturday, single-handedly preventing any such deficit. After five scoreless minutes, Schoen put Harvard on the board, notching her first of the game off a free position shot. She scored unassisted just 23 seconds after a Lions equalizer. A minute later, Schoen tallied...
...looking for the villain behind Cho's sadistic spree, consider what it has in common with every multiple-murder tragedy in recent U.S. history: the young man had easy access to a few of the 200 million guns available in this country, and used them to slaughter people who never did him harm...
...Mass murder, in short, is not a random act. There are things that explain it. Psychosis, for one, can never be ruled out. Russell Weston, a 41-year-old killer who went on a shooting spree in the 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...
...fall of 2005, some 17 months before Cho Seung-Hui went on his killing spree at Virginia Tech, his behavior was so disturbing that his creative-writing professor had him removed from her class. Later that semester, two female students complained separately about what one called his "annoying" advances, and after an acquaintance warned that Cho might be suicidal, he was detained for several hours, evaluated at a local mental-health facility and released. "Everyone who is hospitalized isn't going to be banned from campus," Dr. Christopher Flynn, head of Virginia Tech's counseling center, told TIME...