At my alma mater (another engineering school), some Asian student offed himself by crushing his head in a concrete compression machine in the civil engineering lab.
Grotesque, sure . . . but it's not like he took 32 other people with him.
You said — “They don’t make screwballs like they used to, I guess.”
Oooh..., ouch! I guess they don’t.
Regards,
Star Traveler