Author explores how campus tragedy affected immigrants and academia
Edwin Chen, author of Deadly Scholarship, examines the 1991 University of Iowa mass shooting by Gang Lu and the impact on immigrant students, university pressure, and changes in study and counseling. Chen notes the harassment of graduate students and wonders if intervention could have altered the outcome.
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Contrasts in Lives Behind Campus Tragedy
The 2004 University of Louisville killings are examined in Chen's book through profiles of Chris Goertz and Shen Lu, their advisers Robert Smith and Dwight Nicholson, and witnesses. Lu’s academic strain, personal failings, and religious shifts are explored alongside Shan's contrasting path, with the narrative ending in Lu's murderous actions and suicide, and Rodolfo-Sioson surviving and paralyzed.
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