nyu: uh

Amy ★★ (

shadykitten) wrote in

nyu,
@ 2004-09-06 11:35:00

Current mood:

disturbed

uh
please tell me that the rumor I just heard about ANOTHER suicide is just that...

PLEASE people, school hasn't even started yet

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	twostepping_boi 2004-09-06 09:51 am UTC (link)
	I'm pretty sure this is true. I walked by Mercer St. this morning and the block right near the Silver center was taped off, and what looked like a yellow body bag on the sidewalk. :'-( (Reply to this)

(Anonymous)
2004-09-06 10:09 am UTC (link)

Walked past whatever it was twice this morning. Cops and the fire department had the street between Washington and Waverly on Mercer taped off. At about 11:45, there were small groups of police officers and vaguely official looking people talking, and at about 1 o'clock there was a fire truck on the scene and the fire fighters were flooding the street from a fire hydrant. Also, there was a medical examiner's van on the site the second time I went past.

I talked to some people hanging around and there was no real consensus on what had happened. I heard that someone jumped, or that someone was pushed, or that someone might have been stabbed, but those are all completely unsubstantiated at this point. There were lots of journalists hanging around and a couple of photographers, so it should be on the news soon.

Whatever it turns out to be, this certainly is a shitty way to start the year.

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	laurenxo 2004-09-06 10:15 am UTC (link)
	Ughhhh whyyy... (Reply to this)

emengee
2004-09-06 11:22 am UTC (link)

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--bodyfound0906sep06,0,1983585.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

NEW YORK (AP) _ The body of a young woman was found in front of a Greenwich Village building on Monday, and police were investigating.

Detective Mindy Diaz described the victim as a black woman in her 20s. Diaz said the woman was found unconscious at 10:30 a.m. in front of 286 Mercer St., and was later pronounced dead at the scene.

Mercer Street is near the New York University campus, but police could not immediately say if the victim was a student there.

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	(Anonymous) 2004-09-06 03:08 pm UTC (link)
	That article has now been updated to say that it was indeed an NYU grad student who committed suicide by jumping from a building. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thatcalliecat 2004-09-06 12:54 pm UTC (link)
	fuck.... just fuck... (Reply to this)

	eyeswide_inlove 2004-09-06 01:11 pm UTC (link)
	A boy on our floor came back right after, said he saw them picking up the body but didn't see the jump... that's what he said it was, though. That they thought it was a grad student. Granted, it was probably hectic and who knows what was true, but something did happen. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	suchdrama 2004-09-06 04:10 pm UTC (link)
	It was a Tisch grad student. She jumped off the roof of the Tisch building on Broadway. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	i_eat_vegans 2004-09-06 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	There are 50,000 people in the NYU student body. People are going to kill themselves. Other people are goint o die in other ways. That's what happens. You obviously didn't know this person. This isn't a big deal. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	shadykitten 2004-09-06 05:00 pm UTC (link)
	get over yourself, cunt. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

i_eat_vegans
2004-09-06 05:43 pm UTC (link)

Get over what exactly? I'm stating a fact that most people just seem to have a problem dealing with. This is a big school. These things happen. In fact, the NYU commuinity has a relatively low occurance of suicide for a community of this size. It's a very common cause of death and we have relatively few. I mean, are the people who get all worried about these things just ignorant about the way life actually unfolds or do they just enjoy faking sympathy.

This person obviously had more serious problems than failing a class or something equally (relatively) minor. This person had a life outside of NYU. She was not just an NYU student she was a person. A person like any other, and I don't think that your average NYU student is freaking out over every single person who starves to death in... Somalia... or wherever. So why this person?

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shadykitten
2004-09-06 05:57 pm UTC (link)

Is anyone freaking out? I mean anyone aside from you.

And did I suggest even remotely that I knew this girl in any way shape or form?? No one here is feigning any sort of sympathy at all. Who are you to put yourself above those confused and awed that this can continue to happen among our unique group. Forgive us for not being so cold and heartless when yet ANOTHER one of the peers with which we share such closer quarters decides to end their own life. Suicide is a part of life, you're not the only one who understands that.
But going from a long period of none at all to a sudden DOWNPOUR is certainly worth taking note of. Shouldn't the facts you cite (that these suicides aren't something we have had to deal with in abundance) explain the very reason people are so startled by this??

And how do you know that the average NYU student doesn't care about people starving to death in Somalia??? You certainly can't use yourself as a reference because you are most defininetly not 'average'.

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	vastluvr 2004-09-06 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	major props to that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lalito 2004-09-06 07:06 pm UTC (link)
	Rawk. I joked in the other thread about this about being the tight end of an NYU football team -- I'm going to take it down. Damn inappropriate of me. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	shadykitten 2004-09-06 07:09 pm UTC (link)
	good on ya (Reply to this) (Parent)

	mrbubs 2004-09-06 07:09 pm UTC (link)
	I think that you, and many other people here, are being hyper-sensitive about this. And calling people cunt... that's just not appropiate. I thought we were a friendly community here? (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	shadykitten 2004-09-06 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	i also thought we were free of brainless fucktwits but apparently that was wrong too (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	i_eat_vegans 2004-09-07 07:53 am UTC (link)
	I love how every single response you give to a reply that disagrees with you involves some sort of childish insult. You could at least TRY to be witty when insulting people. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

shadykitten
2004-09-07 07:58 am UTC (link)

actually, this is not the case... You are seeing a special situation in which shadykitten has bored of mrbubs nitpicking her posts and commentary - we have a history, you see. He picks, I laugh... and fucktwit is not a childish insult, it is at least a highschool level vulgarity.

You took issue with something I posted (really for no reason, as I did not fake sadness or act like I knew the girl) and we got to have had a rousing and civilized round of banter, didn't we?

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i_eat_vegans
2004-09-06 07:11 pm UTC (link)

What period of none at all? I fail to see an extended period of no suicide? A year is hardly an extended period, and its not like there weren't any during that period anyway. It just so happens nobody decided to jump off of tall NYU buildings. This is also hardly what one would consider a downpour of suicides.

I also don't see where I'm freaking out. I'm commenting, although yes, I admit that due to my defensive nature I do get riled up by your personal attacks (Cunt? C'mon.).

How do I know your average NYU kid doesn't care about people starving to death in Somalia? Cause your average NYU kid doesn't even bother to recycle or turn his lights out when he leaves a room. But why should he, a middle class, white youth from the suburbs really care anyway? The fact is that these things don't effect us. They don't really matter to us. It sucks, but its also true.

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	shadykitten 2004-09-06 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	euh, i would call going without incident since what.. sometime in the 80's? an extended suicide-less period (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

purplefolk
2004-09-07 03:04 am UTC (link)

unless you're only counting the jumpers.... psst, there was one 2 yrs ago. they found some student's body in alumni after the room started to smell and they realized they haven't seen the kid around for a while. my former RA was the one who discovered the body. yes, it happens. it's just that a quiet little suicide in someone's room draws a hell of a lot less attention. nobody (who doesn't know the person) has to think about it.

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	(Anonymous) 2004-09-07 04:51 am UTC (link)
	The alumni "suicide" 2 years ago was an accidental overdose... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2004-09-07 07:26 am UTC (link)
	Someone was telling me that there were a couple of suicides 4 years ago, one of them in washington square village. NYU hasn't really been suicide-free prior to last year, it's just that the suicides weren't as frequent. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	shadykitten 2004-09-07 07:59 am UTC (link)
	and apparently they didn't get much coverage - I was going from what a much older alumnus told me, that there was a rash of them when he was here in the 80's and that there hadnt been any until now... Guess he was wrong - oh well. (Reply to this) (Parent)

calmdragon
2004-09-07 05:43 am UTC (link)

I attend NYU as an undergrad at Stern and read about each suicide from the first to the most recent in the newspaper. This is also been talked about in the newyorkers community, which I expressed my opinion of the tragedies.

This is the dream school for most because of the media spotlight sorrounding it, but once people start their first year, they will quickly see that it's still the hardest university to adjust to in the country. However, where some believe the campus lacks the feeling of an actual one, I think there is not a better environment to study in. The main factor which causes the small percentage of students to have difficulties is from high pressure situations from parents that are anxious to gossip to their family or friends of their child attending the most expensive, almost exclusive private school in the country. I felt the same way during my freshman year but soon realized that I should do well for my own success through life, instead of assuring my parents a place amongst high society. That is how I have come so far.

I still can not believe that they killed themselves though. They had so much to live for and long lives ahead but chose to end them on account of escaping being disappointments to a bunch of snobs. Damn the members of their families or whoever made to take the tragic leaps off the buildings. I know that these kinds of situations should not bother me too much, but they do. So I am thinking of moving to Cali at the end of the year. Once I pick a college there, I'll transfer my credits and finish out my senior year.

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