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On-campus mental illness issues unique

By Dick Durbin
RRSTAR.COM
Posted Apr 17, 2008 @ 10:59 PM

This week, our nation marked the anniversary of the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech that took 32 lives and wounded 17 other people. Just two months ago, our state was stunned to witness…

Tags: anniversary, counseling, mental health, mental illness, niu, northern illinois university

Lessons from Blacksburg

By Armin Rosen
PUBLISHED APRIL 19, 2007

It unfolded like a terrifying set-piece, and each new item of information seemed more trite and intuitive than the next: the killer had been a student. He had been a social outcast, homicidally contemptuous…

Tags: columbia, mental illness, predictability, psychological help, suicide, therapy

Reflections on a Mass Homicide (Commentary)

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Reflections on a Mass Homicide

Jimmy Lee,1 MBBS, MMed (Psych), Tih-Shih Lee,1,2 MD, PhD, FRCP (C), Beng-Yeong Ng,1 MBBS, MMed (Psych), FAMS

1 Department of Psychiatry, Singapore General Hospital,…

Tags: academy of medicine, aggresion, behavior, commentary, doctors, immigrants, mental health, mental illness, minorities, psychiatry, psychosis, singapore, trauma, triggers

Enlightened

My youngest son, Travis Miller graduated from Virginia Tech in 2006, and my experiences goe back gto my early teens. As a woman, a Mom, and a researcher, the events of April 16, 2007, grabbed my full attention, and still do.

You see, since 1993, I…

Tags: mental health, mental illness, parent, therapy

Violence by mentally ill not the norm

By:Sarah A. Newlin
Posted: 4/27/07

I am writing in response to Richard Poskozim's opinion piece in the 4/25 issue of The Lantern.

In the article, the author seems to imply that Cho's motivation to kill somehow originated from his…

Tags: mental illness, ohio state university, violence

Threats to Civil Liberties arising from the fallout of the Virginia Tech Forcible-disarmament Frenzy

May 1, 2007 4:51 pm

An article from a new contributor:
Loren Bliss

THERE ARE TWO EXCEPTIONALLY grave dangers to American liberty arising from the present, post-Virginia-Tech forcible-disarmament frenzy. These are:

(1)-The criminalization of…

Tags: civil liberties, criminalization, forcible-disarmament, gun control, mental illness, populist

Police identify Norris Hall shooter as Va. Tech student

Cho attended Northern Va. high school, peers describe him as 'loner'

Maria Tchijov and Thomas Madrecki, Cavalier Daily Senior Writers

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Police identified Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, as the gunman…

Tags: cho, loner, mental illness, uva

Thoughts About Media Coverage of the Virginia Tech Tragedy

posted 5.01.07

Otto Wahl, Ph.D., University of Hartford

The tragic death of 33 students at Virginia Tech has shocked and saddened us all. Given the mental health aspects of the situation, it is not surprising that there has been much in the…

Tags: media coverage, mental health, mental illness, violence

Dangerous People?

By Ari Rabkin
Apr 26 2007

Between the Lines

One of the striking facts about the Virginia Tech shootings was how predictable the murderer's identity was. The authorities knew long before his rampage that Cho Seung-Hui was not merely…

Tags: cornell, mental illness, patients rights

Idealism v. Cho

By Jeremy Siegman
Apr 27 2007
Cosmology on the Rocks

It always feels weird swallowing real-world events like the Virginia Tech massacre in the hazy cosmopolitanism of Uris Library. Cornell and its libraries, after all, are fleeing from the…

Tags: cornell, mental illness, morality

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