Virginia Tech Report Criticizes Mental Health System, School Actions 弗吉尼亚理工大学报告批评心理健康系统和学校行为
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
A committee gave its findings last week about the Virginia Tech shootings in April. The committee appointed by Virginia's governor and led by a retired state police official called for more than seventy changes. The goal is to prevent a similar tragedy in Virginia or anywhere else.
On April sixteenth Seung-Hui Cho, a student, killed thirty-two people and wounded seventeen before killing himself. Among other things, the Virginia Tech Review Panel discussed his mental health history.
In nineteen ninety-nine, he wrote in middle school about killing himself and others. This was after the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado. His teachers thought he should get treatment, which he did.
He also received services in high school. But school officials thought privacy laws prevented sharing this information with Virginia Tech.
There, he caused a number of troubling incidents. The report says the university in Blacksburg did not intervene effectively. It says no one knew all the information and no one put it all together.
The committee pointed to problems with Virginia's mental health system. It also found widespread misunderstanding about federal and state privacy laws.
In two thousand five, a court judged the young man a danger to himself and ordered him to get treatment. But he was not ordered into a hospital. Still, his name should have been added to federal and state lists of people barred from buying guns.
Virginia law did not make that clear. Governor Tim Kaine has moved to deal with this. But Virginia officials found that less than half the states report any mental health information to a federal database used for gun purchases.
At Virginia Tech, emergency services reacted quickly after two people were killed early that morning. But the report says police may have been too quick to decide that a possible suspect was probably no longer in the area. And top administrators are criticized for failing to send out a warning message about the shooting for almost two hours.
Minutes after that, the shootings began in Norris Hall. Still, the committee says quickly securing all buildings would not have been possible.
Some victims' families want the university president and police chief to resign or be dismissed. The governor rejected that idea.
Virginia Tech began a new school year August twentieth, a day after a ceremony for a memorial to the thirty-two victims.
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Bob Doughty.
这里是VOA特别英语教育报道。
一个委员会上周给它的关于弗吉尼亚理工大学4月校园枪击案的调查结果。这个由弗吉尼亚州州长任命并且在一位退役州级警官领导下的委员会倡导70多项变革。目的是为了防止在弗吉尼亚州或其他地方发生类似的悲剧。
在4月16 日，一名学生赵承熙，枪杀了32 人并且打伤17人，然后自杀。此外，弗吉尼亚理工大学调查组讨论了他的心理健康历史。
在1999年，他在中学写了关于自杀和杀人的文章。这是在科罗拉多州哥伦拜恩中学枪击案之后。他的老师认为他应该得到治疗。
他在高中也受到了治疗服务。但学校官员认为隐私法阻止弗吉尼亚理工大学共享这些信息资料。
他在那里引起了一些令人不安的事件。报告说，在Blacksburg的大学没有进行有效的干预。它说，没有人知道所有的资料，没有人把它全部汇集起来。
该委员会提出了弗吉尼亚的精神健康系统有关的问题。它还发现普遍存在着误解联邦和州的隐私法问题。
在2005年，一个法庭裁决这个年轻人有自杀的危险，并且命令他接受治疗。但他没有按照安排进入医院。还有，他的名字本应该列入联邦和州府禁止购买枪支人员名单。
弗吉尼亚州法律并没有作出明确规定。州长蒂姆•凯恩已经采取行动处理此事。但弗吉尼亚州官员发现，一半以上的州没有向联邦枪支购买数据库报告任何心理健康方面的资料。
在弗吉尼亚理工大学，那天早上二人被杀死时，急救服务部门反应迅速。但这份报告说，警方或许过于轻率而作出了该嫌疑犯可能已不在校园的错误判断。并且高级管理层的失职受到了批评，枪击案发生将近二个小时才发出警告信息。
在那之后的数分钟，枪杀在诺里斯大厅开始。不过，该委员会说迅速保护全部大楼本来就不可能。
一些受害者家属希望大学校长和警长辞职或予以解雇。州长拒绝了这一要求。
弗吉尼亚理工大学8月20 日开始新学年。当天举行仪式吊念32名受害者。
以上是VOA特别英语教育报道。由南希·斯坦芭撰稿。我是鲍勃·道蒂.