The Virginia Tech killer, Seung-Hui Cho, was an English major and senior. Phyllis Schlafly has taken a look at what courses he might have taken, for example:

· English 5454 called “Studies in Theory: Representing Female Bodies.” Assigned readings include “Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late Nineteenth Century Art, Medicine, and Literature,” “The Comparative Anatomy of Hottentot Women in Europe, 1815-1817,” “Selling Hot P****: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace,” “The Anthropometry of Barbie: Unsettling Ideals of the Feminine Body in Popular Culture,” and “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power.”

· A senior seminar called “The Self-Justifying Criminal in Literature.”

· Another senior seminar titled “The City in Literature.” The assigned reading starts with a book about an urban prostitute who finally kills herself and a book about a violent man who kills his girlfriend.

Then, again, he might have studied with Va. Tech’s professor of English, Nikki Giovanni, whose “poems” contain violent themes and vulgarity, or Marxist English instructor Allen Brizee, who wrote: “Everyday, the capitalist system exploits millions of people. … Our role in the capitalist system makes us guilty of oppression!”

For sure, however, Cho did take a class on “Contemporary Horror,” a requirement for which was for students to keep “fear journals.” According to Schlafly, Ross Alameddine, one of Cho’s victims, also took this course. Three works that were taught in the class were “Men, Women, and Chainsaws,” “The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Takes of Horror and the Macabre,” and “The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense.”

We need a taxpayers’ revolt. There is every reason we should not be subsidizing professors who teach, in Schlafly’s words, “worthless and psychologically destructive courses.”