This morning started rather in a very anxious mode. Got up really early(4 AM) and thought shall do some quality work. As usual began checking my office email, and there was a mail by one of my ex-colleagues with whom I worked little bit before. The mail began with standard exchange of pleasantries followed by a link [Here] asking me if I knew or was in touch with this guy. I did not understand much, but opened the link and to my horror, it was about a murderer who killed an Israeli girl after an altercation. It was an extra-marital affair!! There was a photo of him on the news item with a Virginia Tech jacket on. What the heck!! This guy is from Virginia Tech?! I muttered to myself. Trying very hard to remember, I could barely have any recollection, but I think I may have seen him at Virginia Bioinformatics Institute. As we don't interact much with the students, I may not have talked with him. Now I am beginning to think what is going on? In the last 4 years, at least there are 3 incidences where I know students have turned into Psychopaths and went on in a killing spree. The first one was the infamous VT shooting in 2007, followed by a Chinese student decapitating a girl in a cafeteria in 2008 and this is the third one! This is very alarming and the trend does not look very good at all. Are these incidences occurring by chance or there is something big associated with it? Could there be a factor? Are we producing Psychos in our campuses? Hope not and hope the disturbed people get some help on time...
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