NYU student jumps to her death from university building; 6th this year

NY Newsday ^ | 9/6/04 | AP

[wagglebee]

NEW YORK -- A graduate student at New York University jumped to her death Monday from the rooftop of its prestigious Tisch School of the Arts, police said.

[wagglebee]

Bush must have made them all do it./sarcasm off

[annyokie]

Tough school. Art kills.

[MichiganMan]

Levy lived with her parents at nearby Waverly Place, police spokeswoman Detective Mindy Diaz said.

I would be concerned with whatever problems seemed so big to her, but I have to say I really don't care when comparing whatever they were to the ones she just heartlessly imposed on her parents.

[Semper Paratus]

She was going to get that "Darwin Award" no matter how many buildings she had to jump.

[gcruse]

Maybe someone let it slip that degrees and graduate degrees in Art qualify you for minimum wage jobs.

[Kackikat]

There are no coincidences in criminal justice, I think someone needs to look into these 6 deaths ALL FROM SAME COLLEGE.....they might find a connection. Something here is fishy, fishy, fishy. I'm not buying it.

[wagglebee]

Here is what I think the title should have been:

Tisch School of the Arts, endowed by the former owners of CBS, sending the future of America's left-wing plummetting to their deaths.

[OldFriend]

Show some mercy.

[NativeNewYorker]

In the past 2 decades NYU has gone from being a second-tier academic/first-tier party school, to being as hard to get into as the Ivies, and nearly as well-regarded.

As for me, I could never understand how one could be a *serious* student at the very center of the NYC party scene, Greenwich Village.

I am told it's possible....

[edhammond]

Condolences to her family. A real tragedy.

[annyokie]

I was thinking, dangerous, I know, SIX this year? School started like two weeks ago.

[NativeNewYorker]

NYU is a very large place, both in student population size, and real estate. Add in the emotional state/pressure of its primary population and the temptations of Sodom, and it doesn't seem fishy at all.

[umgud]

People who do this have tunnel vision. I too feel for those she has just hurt.

[Xcoastie]

Unbelievable. Too many deaths, too close together. Too little being done???

[antceecee]

Sounds suspicious to me. Stay on it Kackikat...
(Arts programs tend to try thin out the potential graduates by harrasment, intimidation and humiliation... been there (years ago) done that. Now watching my own kid going through same. It's the lib way to determine who is the 'right' person to be an artist. Guess they never read biographies of some of the truly great ones).

[Bonaparte]

Is "conceptual" art making a comeback?

[wagglebee]

I feel truly sorry for her family; however, I also think NYU has to start looking at what is causing so many students to kill themselves.

[keithtoo]

May be a victim of Bloomberg's anti-smoking pogrom. ie: smoker goes outside for a light, gets angry at second-class citizen status......decides to end it all.

[Mach9]

I'm SO with you!