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NYU student jumps to her death from university building; 6th this year
NY Newsday ^ | 9/6/04 | AP

Posted on 09/06/2004 5:50:18 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...


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KEYWORDS: lame1stcomment; nyu; suicide; totallywornoutcliche
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To: Kackikat
"Something here is fishy, fishy, fishy. I'm not buying it."

Maybe somebody is putting something in the cafeteria food. Does this school even have a cafeteria? If it does...there should be an investigation into the cafeteria employees. Maybe the workers are Muslims....or Mexican members of la Raza. Wait let me go get my tin foil hat.

21 posted on 09/06/2004 6:04:51 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: wagglebee

I imagine the supposedly high number of suicide deaths in NYC has to do with percentages of population but I'm not certain. My boyfriend and I were returning to my apartment late one night a few years ago in Manhattan and just missed witnessing a young woman jump to her death in the building next door to mine. It was a horrifying experience. I can't imagine how someone could do such a thing.

If I felt life wasn't worth living, instead of committing suicide, I'd do something really wild that I had always wanted to do but had never taken the risk. I mean, if you're willing to make a change as drastic as becoming a dead person rather than one who is alive, why not just "jump" in a different direction?


22 posted on 09/06/2004 6:06:08 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: NativeNewYorker

High pressure schools have suicides in their graduate programs. Sad but true.


23 posted on 09/06/2004 6:06:15 PM PDT by OldFriend (GIVE EM ZELL)
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To: arasina
"I mean, if you're willing to make a change as drastic as becoming a dead person rather than one who is alive, why not just "jump" in a different direction?

Good philosophy. I think I'll quit my job...sell my house and become a forty year old surfer dude.

24 posted on 09/06/2004 6:09:17 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: wagglebee

Abbie Hoffman committed suicide, because of Reagan's popularity.


25 posted on 09/06/2004 6:11:55 PM PDT by Paul Atreides
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To: 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.

They may want to investigate if so many students are killing themselves. Its rather coincidental - could there be a third party involved?

Serial murder, perhaps?

26 posted on 09/06/2004 6:12:08 PM PDT by meyer
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To: wagglebee

She got a good look at the world bequeathed to her by the boomers and decided to get the hell out now and avoid the rush.


27 posted on 09/06/2004 6:13:04 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: TalBlack

"Marlowe, you're not human tonight."


28 posted on 09/06/2004 6:13:59 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Bonaparte
Is "conceptual" art making a comeback?

That's NASTY!

29 posted on 09/06/2004 6:14:21 PM PDT by anonymous_user (I'm mad as Zell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!)
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To: gcruse

Yea, I agree. She probably killed herself because she realized she was in a dead-end career path. Everyone knows that the only worthwhile pursuits in life are those that rake in large amounts of cash. Not.


30 posted on 09/06/2004 6:14:22 PM PDT by vortigern
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To: wagglebee
The medical examiner said Bohler's death was accidental, related to his use of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

At least he died happy.

31 posted on 09/06/2004 6:15:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
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To: gcruse

As a working professional artist, I partially disagree. Degrees cannot assure success, neither the lack of a degree. I am self-taught, sans degree, not only above minimum wage, but make a comfortable living. If you can enjoy what you do and not consider it work, and many people are willing to pay for your creativity (sometimes more than you think it's worth, but they do) you can feel good about what you do as an artist. I feel really good.


32 posted on 09/06/2004 6:16:57 PM PDT by KnutCase (You have to hand it to the Democrats....they sure as hell will not work for it !)
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To: wagglebee
On Oct. 10, Stephen Bohler, 18, of Irvine, Calif., jumped from the same library floor.

The medical examiner said Bohler's death was accidental, related to his use of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Lol, us poor teenage rednecks didn't have multi-story, parent funded dormitories to jump out of.

If you're going to eat mushrooms, bring a case of beer and a carton of smokes.

They might soothe yer nerves after tripping sixteen hours.

33 posted on 09/06/2004 6:18:31 PM PDT by primeval patriot (I'll stay in cowtown, I'll stick around)
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To: Bonaparte
Is "conceptual" art making a comeback?

Maybe it was performance art. In any case, if the the 6 were part of a mime studies program, it would make sense.

34 posted on 09/06/2004 6:22:39 PM PDT by searchandrecovery (Socialist America - diseased and dysfunctional.)
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To: wagglebee
In my younger and more vulnerable years as an undergraduate student at the lowly University of Wisconsin at Madison - I narrowly missed being hit by a fellow who jumped off the roof of a 12 story dormitory. The building had a first floor which was about 1.5 times the height of the other floors plus an observation deck which was raised 6 or 7 feet from the top of the building - so let's just say he fell 14 stories. The University released no information about the suicide and it did not appear in the local papers or on the television news. In those days the university was concerned about the copy cat phenomenon (which seems to be borne out by NYU today). Legend had it that this fellow had received a "C" in a biochemistry class and that blew his future expectation of getting into medical school and becoming a doctor. He chose to jump at roughly 12:10 pm - when the area in which he landed would be full of students heading for lunch or retuning from 11:00 classes. He landed about 8-10 feet behind me as I walked back to my dorm. A girl  who was left hysterical claimed she felt him brush her arm as he landed immediately adjacent to her. I turned and walked toward his body but stopped as soon as I saw a lot of blood. It slowly but surely sunk in what had happened - and I spent 2-3 days trying to understand how anyone could have made the incredibly mistaken judgment that suicide was the answer to whatever the question was at that moment.

The best part of the experience of having observed a suicide (or, more precisely, its immediate aftermath) was the way that the news that I had seen such a thing filtered though the family grapevine and, as usual, got distorted along the chain of transmission. I received a frantic phone call from an aunt that I hadn't heard form in years - expressing her concern that she had heard that I was "talking about suicide" - not as in "talking about having witnessed a suicide" but as in contemplating such an act.Ugh!

This is NYU cluster is pretty interesting. I wonder if by selecting from students of only the highest SAT/ACT scores they may be concentrating less emotional stability into the student body. Dunno.

35 posted on 09/06/2004 6:22:51 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: wagglebee

You will never understand and blaming the university is ludicrous.


36 posted on 09/06/2004 6:22:57 PM PDT by OldFriend (GIVE EM ZELL)
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To: annyokie

Six this calendar year, not school year.


37 posted on 09/06/2004 6:27:56 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Proud to be an infidel.)
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To: KnutCase
Degrees cannot assure success, neither the lack of a degree. I am self-taught, sans degree, not only above minimum wage, but make a comfortable living.

My parents were both artists: Met in Art School.

One thing that was always taught us, and it is true in any field:

TALENT always wins.

Someone's parents can take out all the mortgages they want, but if someone is just not good at a field and lacks an intuitive understanding of it and native ability, they can paper their office with all the purchased parchment they want, and still manage to fail.

Just last night I got a phone call from an old High School Friend, bemoaning that he was a failure. I told him, he could have changed careers a dozen times in the last few decades, but the truth is, he was a BAD engineer, who persisted in remaining in a field to which he was unsuited, clinging to it, when it was just a wrong choice he made at age 19!

38 posted on 09/06/2004 6:28:46 PM PDT by Gorzaloon (Thereza-Heinz-DiazDeBovar-Greenberg-Kerry: PROOF that even the Rich can marry a failure.)
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To: AZLiberty

I figured it was calendar year, although the article doesn't clarify it. Thanks.


39 posted on 09/06/2004 6:31:40 PM PDT by annyokie (Now with 20% More Infidel!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The medical examiner said Bohler's death was accidental, related to his use of hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Damn, must have thought he could fly.

Years ago, a high school kid that was tripping on LSD survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Coast Guard crew that went to retrieve "the body", were surprised when the kid swam over to the boat.

40 posted on 09/06/2004 6:34:41 PM PDT by csvset
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