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Title: No Right to Remain Silent

Subtitle: What We've Learned from the Tragedy at Virginia Tech

Author: Lucinda Roy

Narrator: Lucinda Roy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-16-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

The world watched in horror in April 2007 when Virginia Tech student Seung-Hui Cho went on a killing rampage that resulted in the deaths of thirty-two students and faculty members before he ended his own life. Former Virginia Tech English department chair and distinguished professor Lucinda Roy saw the tragedy unfold on the TV screen in her home and had a terrible realization. Cho was the student she had struggled to get to knowthe loner who found speech torturous. After he had been formally asked to leave a poetry class in which he had shared incendiary work that seemed directed at his classmates and teacher, Roy began the difficult task of working one-on-one with him in a poetry tutorial. During those months, a year and a half before the massacre, Roy came to realize that Cho was more than just a disgruntled young adult experimenting with poetic license; he was, in her opinion, seriously depressed and in urgent need of intervention. But when Roy approached campus counseling as well as others in the university about Cho, she was repeatedly told that they could not intervene unless a student sought counseling voluntarily. Eventually, Roys efforts to persuade Cho to seek help worked. Unbelievably, on the three occasions he contacted the counseling center staff, he did not receive a comprehensive evaluation by thema startling discovery Roy learned about after Chos death. More revelations were to follow. After responding to questions from the media and handing over information to law enforcement as instructed by Virginia Tech, Roy was shunned by the administration. Papers documenting Chos interactions with campus counseling were lost. The university was suddenly on the defensive. Was the university, in fact, partially responsible for the tragedy because of the bureaucratic red tape involved in obtaining assistance for students with mental illness, or was it just, like many colleges, woefully underfunded and therefore underequipped to respond to such cases? Who was Seung-Hui Cho? Was he fully protected under the constitutional right to freedom of speech, or did his writing and behavior present serious potential threats that should have resulted in immediate intervention? How can we balance students individual freedom with the need to protect the community? These are the questions that have haunted Roy since that terrible day. No Right to Remain Silent is one teachers cri de coeurher dire warning that given the same situation today, two years later, the ending would be no less terrifying and no less tragic.

Members Reviews:

Guns and mental illness

This is the story of the Virginia Tech shootings by a mentally ill young man. It is told by one of his teachers. This brings to light the constraints the university was under as far as privacy and the student's rights. I understand better why this happened, and what was not done, and why it was not done, in order to prevent the tragedy.

I do think our country really needs to address the issues of mental health - and the ability to buy guns and many, many rounds of ammunition where the only intent is to kill as many as possible in as short a time as possible.

Great book to generate discussions.

Disturbing account, well written

Recently I have read some of the books on Columbine given that it has been the 10th anniversary of that event.