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And there is fallout over the Post's decision to reprint the photograph of Chien's fall on yesterday's cover (link to earlier post with picture). The Daily News (naturally) gets opinions from students ("It's horrible. They shouldn't have put it in. It's completely distasteful."), mental heath experts ("It's reckless."), and NYU ("It seems to show an appalling lack of judgment and insensitivity to the young woman's family and a disregard for the feelings of students at NYU."). Interesting enough, "fiance" Lam still agreed to speak with the Post about his and Chien's relationship.

The off-campus death of Chien, UCLA transfer and daughter of a senior VP at TiVo, did make the death feel "removed" (versus the deaths at the Bobst Library), but students are still upset, one telling the Times, "People are sort of angry and bitter. They don't understand why this keeps happening." The Times also notes that police cannot confirm the Post's report, based on police sources, that Chien had argued with her boyfriend earlier in the day. While Gothamist knows suicides and deaths during college year are, sadly, a part of what happens, we also think that the unusual number of recent deaths, coupled with the fact that NY has a number of big media outlets, makes the situation more publicized.

There have been many suicides at NYU since the start of the school year.