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...airtime that follow an attack like the one at Virginia Tech, mass murder is an exceedingly rare crime. The rate of killings in the U.S. involving five or more victims - one generally accepted definition of a mass killing - represented less than 1% of all homicides 25 years ago, and still does today. Among kids, the overall violence figures are actually plummeting, with the number of children under 17 who commit murder falling 65% between 1993 and 2004. Mass killing, says Diane Follingstad, a professor of clinical and forensic psychology at the University of South Carolina, "is a low baserate thing...
...Someone should have been keeping an eye on Cho. If police or the counselor had even thought to follow up on Cho this year, they would have discovered easily from his suite mates that the man was unbalanced: he barely spoke, unless to make prank calls identifying himself as Question Mark; he slept fitfully and with the lights on; he seemed to have or desire no human contact whatsoever...
...Yeah, that can be frustrating. So what advice would you give to students who want to follow in your footsteps? Any words of wisdom...
...courses are approved through a vast spider-like apparatus of committees, and existing courses are rarely reviewed. To carry out the new general education system as well as other promised reforms, we should allow maximum space for pedagogical creativity. Rather than tell all course heads they need to follow set formats—for exams, assignments, course scheduling, sections, and so forth—why not ask periodically for evidence that instructional goals are clear and that students are learning and finding the course worthwhile...
...matter what Amaker does, it’s clear that if his plans for a postseason birth are to become a reality, he needs to follow the lead of Tim Floyd at USC and infuse some rap influence into Harvard’s basketball program...