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There was bound to be anger and accusations in the aftermath, and these too went ricocheting through the campus. Wednesday morning even brought a death threat against university president Charles Steger. Why hadn't more been done when it became clear to students and faculty that there there was a very troubled young man in their midst, and why hadn't the school been locked down immediately after the first shootings were reported? "I think the university has blood on their hands because of their lack of action after the first incident," said freshman Billy Bason, 18, who lived...
...When it comes to the complex intersection of campus safety and mental health, the questions of what counts as sufficient warning signs and how universities should respond to them often end up in court. Move too quickly by, say, suspending a depressed student for posing a threat to himself or others, and schools can - and do - get sued for discriminating against the disabled. But parents of students who committed suicide have also wrangled settlements out of colleges for not doing enough to intervene. And, of course, there can be hell to pay for failing to protect other students when...
...assuming that an unknown murderer won't leave the scene and keep shooting people - something almost no murderer does - is different from assuming that a person who has long been identified as a threat, as Cho had, won't hurt someone. The fateful decisions that cost the lives of 30 more people at Virginia Tech weren't made on Monday morning; they were made in the previous 18 months...
...magistrate issued a temporary detention order committing Cho to a psychiatric hospital. It's very difficult to obtain such orders; patients must not only be deemed mentally ill but unfit to care for themselves or an immediate danger. Court records show that Cho was not deemed an imminent threat, but it should have been clear by then that he was deeply troubled...
...this freight train now rolling with such momentum that a messy derailment is likely, if not inevitable? Jun Ma, the chief economist at Deutsche Bank Securities in Hong Kong, has been one of the more accurate forecasters of the Chinese economy in recent years. He still believes the inflation threat is manageable, and that the authorities in Beijing can avoid a train wreck even while bumping up rates and trying to curb bank lending to, among others, the still red hot real estate sector...