Giovanni kicked killer out of class

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Former Cincinnatian Nikki Giovanni, a Virginia Tech professor, says she wasn’t surprised when officials identified one of her former students as the gunman in the campus massacre.

"I knew when it happened that that's probably who it was. I would have been shocked if it wasn't," Giovanni told CNN, referring to Cho Seung Hui, a 23-year-old senior English major.

"I've taught troubled youngsters. I've taught crazy people. It was the meanness that bothered me. It was a, really, mean streak."

Giovanni, other English professors and Cho’s classmates were alarmed by his class writings - pages filled with twisted, violence-drenched writing.

"It was not bad poetry. It was intimidating," Giovanni said.

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I can almost guarantee it was bad as well. :D

:crazy:

Nor an actually concerned individual.

for. This is serious stuff!

Jesus said to the crowd: "If you had one hundred sheep, and one of them strayed away and was lost in the wilderness, wouldn't you leave the ninety-nine others to go and search for the lost one until you found it? And then you would joyfully carry it home on your shoulders. When you arrived, you would call together your friends and neighbors to rejoice with you because your lost sheep was found. In the same way, heaven will be happier over one lost sinner who returns to God than over ninety-nine others who are righteous and haven't strayed away!" (Luke 15:4-7)

Or heal him.

Not that it would have been appropriate - but I think her connection with him has been strangely slow to emerge...
and wonder if that other teacher hadn't spoken out, would she have?

and then kicked him out because she didn't like it?

Talk about mean.

It's too long to tell here, but read up on it. This guy was a big problem in his English classes, years ago, for how he made other students uncomfortable--to the point where Giovanni threatened to resign if she had to keep teaching him. Eventually it got to the point where the department head was giving him one-on-one tutorials because no one wanted to be in class with him.

I don't know what the rules are but if he was that much of a problem, why didn't someone do something? Haven't we figured out by now to pay attention to these signs? Every time this sort of thing happens, we get information that someone knew something was wrong- they wrote about it, they were a disruptive influence or something. This could have been prevented.

I wish I could hear more about what she actually sensed with this guy.

Incredibly warm and intense.

She and Maya are two of the greatest poets in America.

:)

What I don't understand is why the school authorities ignored her and the other people who were frightened of this man. Here's a professor, a renowned poet who says that she'll quit if she has to keep teaching this individual, and the authorities just sort of ignore her.