A senior majoring in English who can't write in that language

Virginia Killer's Violent Writings - April 17, 2007:
"APRIL 17--The college student responsible for yesterday's Virginia Tech slaughter was referred last year to counseling after professors became concerned about the violent nature of his writings, as evidenced in a one-act play obtained by The Smoking Gun."

Read the murderer's one-act play at The Smoking Gun - in addition to being deeply disturbing, it is barely literate. And this was a junior year composition from a 22-year old who had lived in the US since the age of eight, so almost his entire education had been in English in American schools. This is a sad commentary on the state of education.

Virginia Tech may well have lower standards in English than some other universities because its strengths in science and engineering attract disproportionate numbers of foreign, especially Asian, students.