NYU Student's Midtown Suicide

Melissa Kennedy was found:
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2004/03/07/missing_brooklyn_woman_found.php

yep- this is sad- but occasionally you get these weird patterns for no reason at all. in my junior and senior years at columbia, at least three people killed themselves each year, and there were two murders, and one murder suicide the year after we graduated. so, as a current NYU student, i hesitate to draw any conclusions.

The story reports that Diana had just had a fight with her boyfriend....not to diminish the impact of pressure from school and parents, but sometimes those first quasi-adult romantic relationships outside the family nest can be really harsh.

I think it's just strange that NYU doesn't have much deaths, and suddenly this year, we've got 3. Altho I heard rumors that 2 of the 3 previous deaths from last semester had drugs involved, I still think it's strange that all this happened w/in such a short span of time. Even if it's said that Chien jumped after a quarrel w/ her bf, I don't think this is what her suicide's all about. It's prolly what just finally drove her over the edge. As for Melissa Kennedy (who, coincidently, I knew from junior high), I was hoping she just ran away and nothing actually happened to her. Altho I hoped this, I wasn't expecting it to be true...but it was! Thank god for that, but now I feel mad at her for making everyone worry like that.

Sad to hear the 4th one in six months.

What on earth was that guy doing with a telescope, stalking women across the street? I find that more creepy than the suicide.

well not to sound harsh but anyone willing to kill herself over problems with a possibly worthless b/f probably deserves to die anyway. here in new york we have enough other problems to worry about, like another 9/11, AIDS, homeless, rising crime rate, obscene housing prices...

NJ resident, Juilet Hoilett, displayed proper concern for her daughter and her car.

you all are heartless... saying such things. wait until it hits closer to home for you. maybe a close loved one, maybe even you... then you might not brush off pain so easily, i think. i pray for her family and friends.

I'm also from california. I empathize with Diana. I'm sure the fight with her boyfriend was very difficult but I think what made her commit suicide might be loneliness and pressure from being here in the city and attending nyu. We need to wake up here! People on campus blame and judge these tragic deaths on the individuals... that they were too ignorant to simply end there life. But do they know how it really feels to be far away from your family and being so young trying to survive in one of the most harsh places to live... we need to be more aware and caring of those people around us.. I'm also trying to start a peer advising/support group on campus because nyu lacks resources for students to go to, and maybe that may help at least one person to not resort to committing suicide. It's much easier to talk to someone your age. however, all of the people I have consulted with (prof. counselors, comm ppl) are skeptical about my idea! Just because they think the plan might not fall through! It saddens me how people on campus neglect these tragedies just because it's none of their business...and I'm starting to feel ashamed to be a part of nyu

I'm her cousin and Diana was a happy, beautiful girl until she met that person. Anyone who knew her at all could have told you that. She didn't deserve to die, dr_nyu, and I'm impressed that you have the bloody arrogance to make statements like that. What she deserved was a normal boyfriend, not an abusive, immature psycho who made up for his insecurities by controlling and manipulating a young girl. I learned only two things from Diana's death--how selfish it is not to think of the people who love you when you kill yourself, and that you should never believe what you read in the press.

I know it's hard to remember--I never do, when it's not my own family involved. But please be respectful. Diana wasn't a statistic, she was a girl, and you all didn't know anything about her. Apparently, neither did I.

Got anything else to say? My xanga's Yakutadazu. I'm not giving out my e-mail address.

Hey Candice, remember me? John, April's son. I have known Diana for as long as I could remember. Our parents are best friends and we did everything together, we went on vacations, trick or treating, movies and much more. I don't have a sister, and I consider her to be one; she even called me brother. I have always admired her very much, she was so beautiful, mature, smart, and popular. She doesn't deserve to die in New York. I do blame the boyfriend for her death, it just pains me to see Diana's mom and the boyfriend Chris holding hands coming back from the airport on Monday.
But the good news is that Diana's Mom has finally come to her sense, and told Chris to go away and never come back after the funeral. I can't believe what he did the days after the Tragedy, instead of mourning for Diana, he was out playing cards, video computer, socializing, and selling his "love story" to the press while sleeping in Diana's bedroom in her parents' house! I know he maniputated Diana because he knew she was rich, he realize that he couldn't keep her for long, so he forbid her to talk to anyone or have any friends guys or girls. What kind of boyfriend is that, what kind of relationship is that?
Diana doesn't love Chris anymore, anyone could see that, why do you think she jumped when Chris was calling to her? Obviously, I couldn't get any sleep tonight, toworrow is her funeral. Diana had such a bright future, her death hasn't really register for me yet, but maybe it will toworrow at the funeral.

This was a very sad event that happened. I lived on the same floor with diana at ucla. I heard the couple fighting numerous times late at night. I think her tragic death was due to her relationship and not NYU. It seems as though people are just hot to blame NYU for another tragic death. Either way this was a very unfortunate tragedy and I wish the best for her family and friends

yeah, i think she transferred just this spring semester. also, i also got it confirmed from others that they had met just this past summer so their relationship was not even a year old! that makes it what somewhere under a 9 month relationship before he claims to have proposed, and less than a year of knowing chris drove her to this tragedy. he definitely has that kind of horrible affect on people.

3 words explain her death "Lambda Phi Epsilon" frat members. All of them are twisted wannabe gangsters and players in college...just like poser Christopher Lam.