Oh just what I need, to hear the VT shooter was a stalker and that Nikki Giovanni kicked him out of her class in 2005 for being insane-o, taking photos and writing obscene violent crap *about his classmates*. Yeah he sounds all around nuts. But it just disturbs and pisses me off (though doesn't at ALL surprise me) that the guy was a known, creepy, stalking, sexually harassing misogynist who made everyone uncomfortable. (upskirting classmates under the desk, and the stalking reported to police) We have so much conditioning to accept abusive behavior from men... BAH. It sounds like people tried hard to get the guy help. Referring him to counseling, he was hospitalized, he was kicked out of class.
it's horribly sad.
It was certainly creepy today in class to talk about it with students, I know we were all imagining "what if". Me and some of the guys debated whether we think we would have charged, or laid down and pretended to be dead already, or what. I am generally in favor of charging straight forward. Never mind maneuvers, go straight at em.
I blogged about this today, and so did Phantom Professor. When these things happen, I always wonder if any of my crazy students are THAT crazy.
Posted by: WhatLadder | April 19, 2007 at 06:30 PM