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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."<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/vtech.shooting/index.html</ref> | 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."<ref>https://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/18/vtech.shooting/index.html</ref> | ||
Cho also had tensions with another English professor at Virginia Tech, Carl Bean, who taught the subject of technical writing. Later, during the investigative panel into the Virginia Tech shootings, Bean characterized Cho as a silent manipulator. He stated Cho knew how "to play the game (and) do as little as he needed to do | |||
to get by (in his schoolwork)". Bean further described Cho as "very intelligent" but stated that Cho's grasp of English vocabulary was poor and that his writing lacked creativity (p. 50).<ref name="chomentalhealth"></ref> Bean had a run-in with Cho where Cho had displayed uncharacteristic assertiveness in response to issues he was having with completing the course material in Bean's class. Cho had wanted to write essays about the American Revolutionary War, the April Revolution of 1960 that had toppled South Korean president Syngman Rhee and an 'objective real time experience' based on serial killers, respectively, as opposed to writing an essay on the set course material. Bean considered these essay topics unacceptable and Cho's overall work that semester to be unsatisfactory, and suggested Cho drop the technical writing subject for this semester. This dispute eventually led to a heated confrontation in Bean's office. Cho later relented and sent a email to Bean where he agreed to drop out of his class. | |||
==Stalking allegations== | ==Stalking allegations== | ||