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Links: Students Under Arrest and Writers Offline

Threat Level, a Wired magazine blog, has been following a story wherein a Chicago-area high school student was arrested for the content of a free-writing exercise. They knew it would happen sooner or later, so did I. So did we all. (Threat Level - Wired Blogs)
Writer Stephen Elliott went a month without the Internet (the [...]

Posted 01 May 2007 † gordon § Links § Writing § Writing process ‡ Comments (1)

Cho’s Instructors and Fellow Students Did What They Could

A New York Times article may quell my fears about some potential media frenzy about the dangers of creative writing: Anger of Killer Was on Exhibit in His Writings - New York Times.
An English professor at VA Tech, Lisa Norris, puts it effectively:
“It is not necessarily the work alone that raises concern, but the work [...]

Posted 20 April 2007 † gordon § Links § Writing ‡ Comments (3)

What Does Virginia Mean to Writing in Schools?

The mass killing in Virginia this week is another stop on a too-long trail of violence in the last few decades. We always need to stop, mourn, and reflect after tragedies like this. I remember after Columbine video games and kids who dressed in black fell under a new kind of scrutiny. This time around [...]

Posted 18 April 2007 † gordon § Links § Writing ‡ Comments (9)