Seung-Hui Cho, English senior at Virginia Tech, shot and killed 32 people before killing himself one year ago today - a date that will be etched into the minds of college students for years to come.

As time progressed, more information about the 23-year-old killer was revealed, including a past of mental instability.

Since then, discussions about gun control and mental health have hovered around college campuses.

Drayton Vincent, clinical director at the LUS Student Health Center, said even before the shootings at Virginia Tech, he noticed an increase of students seeking mental health counseling at the University.

“Several things are going on,” he said. “Mental health treatment and counseling is more acceptable than 20 years ago. A lot of time we’ll have some students that have had counseling services when they were in high school, and so it’s easier for them to come when they’re in college.”

Vincent also attributes the increasing number of students seeking treatment to the ever-growing amount of academic and financial pressures they experience every day.

Vincent said the Student Health Center has received more consultation calls with faculty and staff who are concerned about the mental health of their students.

A broad spectrum of students seek mental health treatment at LSU.

“I have talked to younger students, and I have also talked to some faculty and staff about some older students,” Vincent said. “But I think it’s important to know: Is it an adjustment issue with a younger student? Or is it an older student with some problems that had been developing for a long time?”