[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.

[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....

[Bonaparte]

Is "conceptual" art making a comeback?

[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.

[arasina]

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?

[Paul Atreides]

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

[TalBlack]

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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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

At least he died happy.

[primeval patriot]

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.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

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.

[ohioconservative]

AP Correction:

NEW YORK (AP) - In a Sept. 6 story about a fatal fall at New York University, The Associated Press used the police department's incorrect spelling of the student who jumped to her death. Her name was Joann Michelle Leavy, not Joann Mitchell Levy.