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The world watched in horror in April 2007 when Virginia Techstudent Seung-Hui Cho went on a killing rampage that resulted inthe deaths of thirty-two students and faculty members before heended his own life.
Former Virginia Tech English department chair and distinguishedprofessor Lucinda Roy saw the tragedy unfold on the TV screen inher home and had a terrible realization. Cho was the student shehad struggled to get to know–the loner who found speech torturous.After he had been formally asked to leave a poetry class in whichhe had shared incendiary work that seemed directed at hisclassmates and teacher, Roy began the difficult task of workingone-on-one with him in a poetry tutorial. During those months, ayear and a half before the massacre, Roy came to realize that Chowas more than just a disgruntled young adult experimenting withpoetic license; he was, in her opinion, seriously depressed and inurgent need of intervention.
Former Virginia Tech English department chair and distinguishedprofessor Lucinda Roy saw the tragedy unfold on the TV screen inher home and had a terrible realization. Cho was the student shehad struggled to get to know–the loner who found speech torturous.After he had been formally asked to leave a poetry class in whichhe had shared incendiary work that seemed directed at hisclassmates and teacher, Roy began the difficult task of workingone-on-one with him in a poetry tutorial. During those months, ayear and a half before the massacre, Roy came to realize that Chowas more than just a disgruntled young adult experimenting withpoetic license; he was, in her opinion, seriously depressed and inurgent need of intervention.