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Today marks two years since Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and wounded many others at Virginia Tech in the deadliest single-gunman shooting in U.S. history. In her new book, No Right to Remain Silent, Lucinda Roy gives the first comprehensive account of that day. Then the head of the school's English department, Roy alerted school authorities about Cho's troubling behavior after first encountering him eighteen months prior to the shooting. TIME's Laura Fitzpatrick spoke with Roy about her memories of the gunman and how she thinks we can prevent such a tragedy from happening again...
When was your last meeting with Seung-Hui Cho? (See pictures of the Scenes from the Virginia Tech shooting...
...playground and swinging on the swings. At one point it seems as though they're going to be happy forever - it's the best section in the novel. And then everything suddenly falls apart and the narrator realizes it was just a dream. (See pictures of night falls on Virginia Tech...
...home that morning because I had a three-hour graduate evening seminar on poetry and so I was preparing for that. I had the television on. I've done that since 9/11 just to see if things were going ok. Then a map of Virginia came up with Blacksburg highlighted ... I think, to be honest, I'm still reacting to it in many ways. I'll be reacting to it the rest of my life...
...feel safer today at Virginia Tech than you did two years...