Seung-Hui Cho: Difference between revisions

Jump to navigation Jump to search

Seung-Hui Cho (edit)

Revision as of 08:18, 21 December 2022

967 bytes removed ,  21 December 2022
m
→‎Incident with professor and class
mNo edit summary
Line 28: Line 28:


==Incident with professor and class==
==Incident with professor and class==
In a email complaint by him, Cho complained about one of his professors, Nikki Giovanni, at Virginia Tech. Cho wore sunglasses to class to cover up himself, and was accused of filming Giovanni and the students in the class. Giovanni claims that this disruptive behavior made many of the students leave the class. Giovanni consulted with other VT professors and threatened to resign, however there was no formal basis for removing Cho from the class and a compromise was reached where he was formally tutored by another English professor. Cho's grades in this specific class markedly improved after this transferal to the private tutoring and he received an A grade  (pp. 43-45).<ref name="chomentalhealth"></ref>
In a email complaint by him, Cho complained about one of his professors, Nikki Giovanni, at Virginia Tech. Cho wore sunglasses to class to cover up himself, and was accused of filming Giovanni and the students in the class. Giovanni claims that this 'disruptive' behavior made many of the students leave the class. Giovanni also apparently perceived the content of some of Cho's poems as containing veiled violent threats, including towards her own person, but did not seek any further redress or security on her own behalf despite this perception.


His sunglasses made Giovanni perceive Cho as the bully.
Giovanni consulted with other VT professors and threatened to resign, however there was no formal basis for removing Cho from the class and a compromise was reached where he was formally tutored by another English professor. Cho's grades in this specific class markedly improved after this transferal to the private tutoring and he received an A grade  (pp. 43-45).<ref name="chomentalhealth"></ref>


Giovanni became angry at Cho for not taking off his sunglasses, her anger might have been interpreted by Cho as bullying.
Giovanni became angry at Cho for not taking off his sunglasses. It was clear Cho had an animosity towards Giovanni, and he may have perceived her as a bully.
<blockquote>So she confronted him about the dark sunglasses and maroon cap he would wear in class and the darker poetry that he would write.
“You can’t do that,” she told him, referring to the “intimidating” poems.
 
“You can’t make me,” he replied.
 
“Yeah, I can.”
 
Her next step was to lobby the department head, Lucinda Roy, writing a letter requesting he leave the class, she told CNN. And she was ready to go all the way.
 
“I was willing to resign before I would continue with him,” she told CNN. “It was the meanness.”</blockquote>
In his email, Cho said "You can't make me" because in the beginning of the semester the professor said that "it would be nice to take off your hats ''but I won't make you''." Cho only said that because he really believed the professor can't "make him" because she said that earlier. His professor might have misconstrued Cho's response as an act of rebellion against her.
 
Cho filmed Giovanni, possibly to expose her contemptuous behavior towards Cho. However, a few female classmates complained that he was filming them. One female said that he was filming her legs. Cho was kicked out of class due to the complaints.


After the shooting, Giovanni wasn't surprised that it was Cho. "I knew when it happened that that's probably who it was. I would have been shocked if it wasn't."[https://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/vtech.shooting/index.html]
After the shooting, Giovanni wasn't surprised that it was Cho. "I knew when it happened that that's probably who it was. I would have been shocked if it wasn't."[https://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/vtech.shooting/index.html]
Retrieved from "https://incels.wiki/w/Special:MobileDiff/71632"

Navigation menu