Another Socrates In The Making?

Today in my Profiling Violence class the Professor cheerily announced "Instead of a term paper, I have decided to give you a creative writing assignment. Your task is to create a serial killer and do and extensive profile on him including background: childhood, parents, adolescence, and adulthood, Detailed Crime descriptions and any other pertinent additives. This assignment is meant to test your ability to understand the principles and idea of Profiling" Yet at the end of his speech, I got an itch on the back of my neck and a twitch in my eye....isn't this a bit disturbing. Serial killers exemplify a-typical, anti-social, Psychopathic behavior, that is ultimately dangerous because of its unpredictable and incomprehensible nature. Should we really be engaging a class of 75 college students to mimic this behavior...even as a creative writing assignment? To think of horrible exotic crime is half the danger, Yet isn't freedom of expression, thought and creativity what we have a right to in the United States under the 1st amendment? Hmmm...will the dean of students see this coming? Will our lovely professor be put on trial for exciting the youths of the University? Hopefully, these questions are all the over dramatic musings of a bored College student....Goodnight Cyberspace