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Nikki Giovanni

BLACKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- As tales of Cho Seung-Hui's worrisome behavior continued to surface Wednesday, a renowned poet and author
who taught the 23-year-old suspected gunman called the notion that he was troubled "crap" and said he was downright "mean."
Nikki Giovanni was in San Francisco, California, getting ready to fly home to Blacksburg
when she heard the news Monday that 32 students were killed in separate shooting incidents on the Virginia Tech campus.
"I knew when it happened that that's probably who it was," Giovanni said, referring to her former pupil. "I would have been shocked if it wasn't."
Though Giovanni, another professor, Cho's former roommates and a classmate all recall Cho behaving in a disturbing manner --
and authorities confirm he was investigated after being accused of stalking a woman -- there was nothing criminal about his demeanor.>

Lucinda Roy

A professor warned authorities about Virginia Tech mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui
after the student turned in violent creative writing pieces and exhibited troubling behavior,
but she was told intervention would require overcoming too many legal hurdles.
Officials today identified the 23-year-old South Korean student as the killer of up to 32 people at the Virginia school, the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
Lucinda Roy, who taught Cho in a poetry class in fall of 2005, told ABC News she later worked with him one-on-one after becoming concerned about his behavior and themes in his writings.
Roy, co-director of the creative writing program at Virginia Tech, said she asked Cho to go to counseling, but he never went.
She said while she found nothing explicit in Cho's writings, threats were there under the surface.
Roy also said she was concerned for her safety when she met with Cho.
She told ABC the student seemed "extraordinarily lonely – the loneliest person I have ever met in my life."
He wore sunglasses indoors with a cap pulled low over his eyes, whispered, took 20 seconds to answer questions and took cellphone pictures of her in class, Roy said.
Cho wrote a play called "Richard McBeef" in which he describes a 13-year-old boy who accuses his stepfather of pedophilia. The story ends with the boy's death.
Another piece, called "Mr. Brownstone," has three high-school students facing an abusive teacher.
"I wanna kill him," says one character.
"I wanna watch him bleed like the way he made us kids bleed," says another.

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Isn't this the same Nikki Giovanni who gave a speech at the Convocation comparing the VA Tech murders to the killing of baby elephants?

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