"If you were a student at Virginia Tech last fall and had a propensity for the gruesome and violent you could have satisfied your thirst for the bloody..."


Or perhaps you needed an easy elective maybe? This opening displays the author's contempt for horror movies more than anything else. After affirming that Cho Seung-Hui was of course a student in this class , she goes on to reveal more about her own prejudices with this question.
 

     "Guess who read a graphic novel (a book with pictures, i.e., a comic book) titled From Hell by Alan Moore, presented by Professor Stevens as “one of the most popular and accomplished writers in the medium,”


That's correct Ms. Graber, From Hell was a comic book, a comic book that happens to be more well written and thought provoking than most modern "horror" fiction, and therefore is absolutely appropriate for such a class to discuss(regardless of the appropriateness of the class itself)



     "Guess who said to himself, “Bingo! That’s the course I want!” to a course description that ended with the words, ‘WARNING: Not for the faint of heart.”


I am greatly offended by the implications of all those Guess who's, as if to say that only a demented freak like Cho would be interested in such a class. I'll say again that I do not think this to be an appropriate course of study for a University, only because I'd like to think they have better things to do than examine pop culture in any of its' forms, but I also know that I would probably have wanted to take the class myself, it sounds interesting and entertaining it not particularly scholarly.

    "The showing of the videos and writings left by Cho has stirred up much debate by commentators. But what about the videos and books that were considered “texts” in an English class in an institution of supposedly “higher learning”? Would NBC and other stations be criticized for airing footage from one of the required class texts, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, on prime time? But this is what Cho and his classmates were writing term papers on. "

If The Texas Chainsaw Massacre script had been written by Tobe Hooper just before he murdered a bunch of people the two would comparable, since it wasn't, they are not. Period.

    "In our schizophrenic universities students are taught that Christianity is evil and that heroism is a passé idea of old fools; at the same they are trained in pacifism and sensitivity. College classes extend from high school the training in respect and appreciation for the practices of every other culture, while disparaging our own. Students, steeped in relativism, scoff at the notion of original sin, insisting that it is our culture, especially its religion, that corrupts the heart and mind of the inherently innocent child. "

Okay, good points there, good points that have nothing to do with the thesis of your article, but good points nonetheless.



  
  " What more appropriate education for the next egotistical, narcissistic, soulless, anti-Christian, anti-authority, anti-hero? Among those to be feared, indeed, are those like Professor Stevens, who assume to elevate Cho’s real-time actions of horror to a genre worthy of study. "


This statement is near slanderous, to equate a teacher who chose to teach a trivial subject with a mass murderer, nearly even saying that he is to blame for Cho's behavior.

I don't like to repeat myself, but here I will. I don't know Mary Graber, so I won't attempt to judge her intelligence, but this article is sub-moronic. I say again, not one person in the history of the world has ever killed anyone because they saw a movie, read a book, or played a video game. If I was going to kill you with a gun, but decided to use a knife after seeing Psycho, it's still  not Alfred Hitchcock's fault. And if anyone believes that you can blame the movies, then ask yourself why it's not okay to blame the guns? It's just as logical, and just as useful(which is to say, not at all).