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Columbia has had its share of '''suicides''' like most other elite institutions of higher learning (but unlike [[NYU]], which has had far more). If you or someone you know has made even a passing remark about suicide, it is suggested to contact [[Health Services]] immediately.

== Partial list of suicides ==

This list is very incomplete since major media outlets, for the most part, stopped reporting on college suicides during the 1960s.

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| [[October 4]], [[1898]]
| Henry E. McDermott
| Assistant Professor of Chemistry
| Prussic acid
|-
| [[November 11]], [[1901]]
| Richard Mayo Smith
| Professor of Political Economy
| Jumped; possible accident.
|-
| [[February 21]], [[1902]]
| Isaac N. Henderson
| [[PhD]] Candidate
| Self-inflicted gunshot
|-
| [[January 27]], [[1906]]
| William N. Van Reypen Jr.
| Law School student
| Self-inflicted gunshot
|-
| [[February 27]], [[1906]]
| Ralph C.B. Moore
| Student
| Drowning
|-
| [[January 23]], [[1907]]
| Lathrop Smith
| Law School student
| Self-inflicted gunshot
|-
| [[November 16]], [[1907]]
| Lucien M. Underwood
| Professor of Botany
| Slit throat
|-
| [[December 5]], [[1914]]
| Robert H. Jones
| Student
| Self-inflicted gunshot
|-
| [[August 8]], [[1919]]
| John Hipp
| Student
| Multiple: slit wrist, throat, and jumped)
|-
| [[October 16]], [[1921]]
| Dorothy Wilson
| Student
| Jumped under train at 125th Street New York Central / Metro North
|-
| [[August 28]], [[1924]]
| Francis E. Brooks
| Professor of French
| Hanging
|-
| [[March 9]], [[1925]]
| Henry Mead
| Student
| Jumped from sixth floor of [[Hartley]]
|-
| [[March 14]], [[1926]]
| Walton White
| Student
| Hanging
|-
| [[September 21]], [[1927]]
| Oscar Petty
| Professor of Linguistics
| Drowning
|-
| [[May 13]], [[1928]]
| Rollin F. Lewis
| Student
| Hanging
|-
| [[May 23]], [[1928]]
| David Halfant
| [[PhD]] Candidate in [[Economics]]
| Self-inflicted gunshot
|-
| [[June 7]], [[1929]]
| Russell G. Smith
| Professor of [[Sociology]]
| Jumped
|-
| [[March 9]], [[1930]]
| Louis Finkelstein
| [[Law School]] student
| Jumped
|-
| [[May 11]], [[1933]]
| Edgar F. Grossman
| [[PhD]] Candidate in [[Philosophy]]
| Self-inflicted gunshot
|-
| [[June 16]], [[1937]]
| Fred Lester Acer
| Student
| Lethal dose of sleeping medication
|-
| [[October 21]], [[1939]]
| Robert E. Chaddock
| Professor of [[Statistics]]
| Jumped
|-
| [[April 13]], [[1941]]
| Marvin Krueger
| Assistant Professor of Education
| Gas
|-
| [[September 11]], [[1941]]
| Rudolf Schoenheimer
| Professor of Biological Chemistry
| Toxic acid
|-
| [[May 3]], [[1942]]
| Marion Ellis
| Student
| Gas
|-
| [[January 15]], [[1948]]
| Habeeb Ahmed Faruqi
| [[Teachers College]] student
| Jumped from ninth floor of [[Furnald Hall|Furnald]]
|-
| [[October 5]], [[1951]]
| Dorothy Bordes
| Student
| Hanging
|-
| [[October 20]], [[1953]]
| Edward R. Fenn
| Student
| Self-inflicted gunshot
|-
| [[July 21]], [[1954]]
| Madeline Jean Sommers
| Summer student
| Fire
|-
| [[January 3]], [[1955]]
| Lawrence Goldsmith Jr.
| Student
| Sedative overdose
|-
| [[April 28]], [[1958]]
| Frank William Ritchie Jr.
| [[General Studies]] student
| Self-inflicted gunshot
|-
| [[April 17]], [[1960]]
| Michael Bogost
| Student
| Potassium cyanide
|-
| [[November 26]], [[1961]]
| Richard Kulick
| Dental School student
| Self-inflicted gunshot
|-
| [[May 4]], [[1965]]
| Deborah Daniels
| [[Teachers College]] student
| Jumped
|-
| [[November 25]], [[1968]]
| Christine Gallant
| Librarian
| Sleeping pill overdose drowned in bathtub
|-
| [[February 18]], [[1974]]
| Hsio Min Feng
| Professor of Chinese
| Jumped in front of subway in [[Queens]]
|-
| [[September 24]], [[1988]]
| Jonathan A. Spohn
| Student
| Jumped or fell from fourteenth floor of [[John Jay]]; death may have been accidental.
|-
| [[August 20]], [[1991]]
| Myeng Soek Oh
| [[SEAS]] student
| Jumped from the window of his sixth floor apartment after learning he had flunked out.
|-
| [[September 20]], [[1998]]
| Shirley Yoon
| Student
| Jumped from twentieth floor of [[East Campus]]
|-
| [[September 21]], [[1998]]
| Darren Pascual
| Student
| Hanging
|-
| [[March 24]], [[2000]]
| Brian Malmon
| Student
| Suicide while on leave
|-
| [[April 20]], [[2000]]
| Puneet Bhandari
| Student
| Train collision
|-
| [[December 6]], [[2000]]
| Andrea Melendez
| Student
| Jumped off stairwell in [[McBain Hall|McBain]]
|-
| [[November 9]], [[2001]]
| Nick Kemnitzer
| Student
| Jumped from East Campus apartment.
|-
| [[December 13]], [[2003]]
| Fraser Lunan
| Student
| Suicide while on leave
|-
| [[May 7]], [[2006]]
| [[Richard Ng]]
| [[SEAS]] student
| Jumped from the [[Brooklyn Bridge]]
|}

== References ==
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