Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005.

Originally Published: Student Deaths Mar NYU's Ascent to Recognition As Dream College, April 16, 2004; pp. n.p..

"This should have been the year when New York University could gloat. From its sprawling, disparate campus around Washington Square Park, the private university had spent the past 25 years marshaling the resources of high profile donors such as CBS Chairman Laurence Tisch to build gleaming new academic towers and dormitories from the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan to 23rd Street, diversifying its offerings to 14 separate colleges and divisions. NYU's 19,000 undergraduates and 19,000 graduate students now throng to classes and labs at six separate locations in Manhattan and can choose from more than 20 study-abroad locations around the world. An urban school once perceived as a 'subway campus' for the boroughs of New York has been transformed into one of the most selective universities in the nation, drawing an Ivy League-quality applicant pool from the best high schools across the country. By the beginning of this academic year [2003-2004], there were clear signs that NYU's ambitious strategy was paying off big....But then the students started jumping." (HARTFORD COURANT) This article reports that "four NYU undergraduates have either leapt or fallen to their deaths since last September" and examines NYU's handling of the tragedy "at a time when student suicides claim more than 1,000 lives nationwide every year."

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