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Last year alone, six Columbia University undergraduates or recent students died in incidents linked to clear or presumed mental disturbances. Among them was Kathleen Roskot, a sophomore stabbed to death by her boyfriend, a Columbia dropout, who later killed himself by jumping in front of a subway car. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, four students have committed suicide in the past three years. And Harvard University is still dealing with the fallout from a grisly 1995 murder-suicide in which a female student, who was feeling rejected by her roommate, stabbed her to death and then hanged herself...
...Last year alone, six Columbia University undergraduates or recent students died in incidents linked to clear or presumed mental disturbances. Among them was Kathleen Roskot, a sophomore stabbed to death by her boyfriend, a Columbia dropout, who later killed himself by jumping in front of a subway car. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, four students have committed suicide in the past three years. And Harvard University is still dealing with the fallout from a grisly 1995 murder- suicide in which a female student, who was feeling rejected by her roommate, stabbed her to death and then hanged herself...
Renzulli also said that Columbia is taking steps to help students deal with Roskot's and Nelford's deaths. He said administrators began the process by informing all students of the murder-suicide via e-mail messages...
Special attention has been paid to Roskot's suitemates and her lacrosse friends, as well as Nelford's friends from his time at Columbia, Renzulli said. Roskot's suitemates have been temporarily re-housed...
Members of the community expressed their grief Sunday during a Catholic mass held in Roskot's honor at a campus chapel. About 450 people attended...