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Terrible Undergraduate Fiction Gets Students Expelled, Because Of Viginia Tech

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

A danger to herself ... and good writingEver since the Virginia Tech shootings, college teachers have been extra vigilant about expelling creative writing students who write typical teenage loser stories about suicide and alienation. At the very least, instructors face increasing pressure to notify parents, administrators, and health officials that these lamebots with their dark gothic tales will probably not get laid until they are released from mental institutions at age 30. MORE »