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...Virginia Tech's Website The latest information from the campus
...parents of students who committed suicide have also wrangled settlements out of colleges for not doing enough to intervene. And, of course, there can be hell to pay for failing to protect other students when the red flags - at least in hindsight - seem clear. At large campuses like Virginia Tech's, which has 26,000 students, there can be hundreds who are in psychological distress or long-term counseling. Says Kevin Kruger, associate executive director of a national association of student-affairs administrators: "Making decisions about when to have those students leave and when to have them stay is very...
...rash of recent high-profile lawsuits involving students who were summarily booted off campus after they were deemed at risk of suicide. Last August, New York City's Hunter College agreed to pay $65,000 to settle such a case. In the wake of these suits, the Governor of Virginia signed a bill last month that prohibits state colleges from penalizing or expelling students "solely" for attempting suicide or seeking mental-health treatment for suicidal thoughts. The law's primary goal is to encourage kids to get help, and it also requires schools to develop policies for dealing with such...
...president of Virginia Tech, Charles Steger, should resign. But not because of the school's rather slow realization Monday morning that a demented murderer was on campus. Mass shootings are infinitesimally rare. As the Department of Justice points out here, in 2004 less than .1% of all homicides involved five or more victims. The rate of homicides involving more than two victims has been under 1% since at least the mid-'70s (although the rate of two-victim murders - like Cho Seung-Hui's first two killings in Ambler Johnston Hall - has increased over the years). In other words, statistically...
...Virginia Tech Victims Night Falls on Virginia Tech Scenes From the Shooting From CNN.com