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- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
- Subject: Re: Some Real Folklore
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.152953.14355@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
- From: cjones@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Oates)
- Date: 22 Nov 92 15:29:50 -0500
- References: <1992Nov19.012349.16219@rchland.ibm.com> <21NOV199200012770@ducvax.auburn.edu>
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- In article <21NOV199200012770@ducvax.auburn.edu>, thall@ducvax.auburn.edu (Teresa Hall) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov19.012349.16219@rchland.ibm.com>, jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl) writes...
- >>Do you think that college Deans and Presidents have the
- >>power to cover up certain "unfavorable" incidents that
- >>happen on campus?
- >>
- >>While I attended the University of North Dakota, I never
- >>once heard of a student who committed suicide. This
- >>seems strange since there are 11,000 students at UND and
- >>I attended 5 years.
- >>
- >>I began to think that the university was keeping the news
- >>out of the papers and off of the TV somehow, but don't have
- >>any real proof.
- >>
- > Why would a suicide be news? Unless the student killed
- > him/herself in a particularly spectacular way, like a
- > swan dive off the tallest campus building, or taking out
- > a few passersby before turning gun on himself, I would
- > think it would be handled quietly for the sake of the
- > victim's family and friends.
- >
- > Just curious--back to lurking--
- >
- > Teresa Hall
- > Auburn University
-
- Last year at Miami Univ. a woman in Peabody Hall took a dive from a third
- floor window (works out to be more like 4 stories in an OLD building...circa
- 1880). I don't remember all the circumstances, but I want to believe that
- she was a Western College major (interdiscplinary studies - you get a BA
- in Philosophy when you matriculate). Western is notorious for shoving P.C.
- down the poor students' throats, so I can't say that I blame tis poor
- woman.
-
- She failed with a broken wrist. I think it had been raining that week and
- she landed in the grass. The story did make the student paper (that's how
- I found out about it).
- --
- Oates cjones@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
- cj5jsanu@miamiu.bitnet
- "The extreme always seems to make an impression."
- -- J.D., _Heathers_
-