stereotype of a "school shooter" (?)
Does this sound familiar?
– a loner, obsessed with violence, and serious personal problems, refused talking to anyone, didn't want to be friends with anybody, just came to class every day and submits work on time, worse, when offered some Halloween candy, he will slowly shook his head, and refuse it... (?) Hmm..
Add these:
an intelligent person — quite a gifted student in some ways, but also seemed to be an awkward and very lonely person who never took off the sunglasses, even indoors. And sometimes, there is as long as a 20-second pause before the person would respond, and people around him didn't up a rapport, because he wasn’t the kind of student who would permit that... (?) Hmm...
The following words I'm sure aren't, unless you personally know Cho Seung-Hui:
"A major part of the playwriting class was peer reviews. We would write one-act plays and submit them to an online repository called Blackboard for everyone in the class to read and comment about in class the next day. Typically, the students give their opinions about the plays and suggest ways to make it better, the professor gives his insights, then asks the author to comment about the play in class.
When we read Cho's plays, it was like something out of a nightmare. The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't have even thought of. Before Cho got to class that day, we students were talking to each other with serious worry about whether he could be a school shooter. I was even thinking of scenarios of what I would do in case he did come in with a gun, I was that freaked out about him. When the students gave reviews of his play in class, we were very careful with our words in case he decided to snap. Even the professor didn't pressure him to give closing comments.
While I was hesitant at first to release these plays (because I didn't know if there are laws against it), I had to put myself in the shoes of the average person researching this situation. I'd want to know everything I could about the killer to figure out what could drive a person to do something like this and hopefully prevent it in the future. Also, I hope this might help people start caring about others more no matter how weird they might seem, because if this was some kind of cry for attention, then he should have gotten it a long time ago." - Ian MacFarlane, former classmate and current AOL employee
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sources: http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/
MSNBC.com
– a loner, obsessed with violence, and serious personal problems, refused talking to anyone, didn't want to be friends with anybody, just came to class every day and submits work on time, worse, when offered some Halloween candy, he will slowly shook his head, and refuse it... (?) Hmm..
Add these:
an intelligent person — quite a gifted student in some ways, but also seemed to be an awkward and very lonely person who never took off the sunglasses, even indoors. And sometimes, there is as long as a 20-second pause before the person would respond, and people around him didn't up a rapport, because he wasn’t the kind of student who would permit that... (?) Hmm...
The following words I'm sure aren't, unless you personally know Cho Seung-Hui:
"A major part of the playwriting class was peer reviews. We would write one-act plays and submit them to an online repository called Blackboard for everyone in the class to read and comment about in class the next day. Typically, the students give their opinions about the plays and suggest ways to make it better, the professor gives his insights, then asks the author to comment about the play in class.
When we read Cho's plays, it was like something out of a nightmare. The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn't have even thought of. Before Cho got to class that day, we students were talking to each other with serious worry about whether he could be a school shooter. I was even thinking of scenarios of what I would do in case he did come in with a gun, I was that freaked out about him. When the students gave reviews of his play in class, we were very careful with our words in case he decided to snap. Even the professor didn't pressure him to give closing comments.
While I was hesitant at first to release these plays (because I didn't know if there are laws against it), I had to put myself in the shoes of the average person researching this situation. I'd want to know everything I could about the killer to figure out what could drive a person to do something like this and hopefully prevent it in the future. Also, I hope this might help people start caring about others more no matter how weird they might seem, because if this was some kind of cry for attention, then he should have gotten it a long time ago." - Ian MacFarlane, former classmate and current AOL employee
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sources: http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/04/17/cho-seung-huis-plays/
MSNBC.com
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