Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'student'
July 10, 2008
The mystery of what happened to 25-year-old Columbia student Toby Cohen is still somewhat of a mystery, even to him. After word came in that he was found yesterday, the NY Sun is reporting on some of the finer details today. When the family called Columbia with fears he'd gone missing, they found out their son had withdrawn in the last month. Cohen, who had left his epilepsy medication at home the night he went......
Continue Reading "Details Surface on the Lost and Found Columbia Student"July 9, 2008
Earlier this morning we pointed towards the Daily News article reporting a missing Columbia student. The 25-year-old Toby Cohen had allegedly left his girlfriend's apartment this past Sunday night, took $200 out of an ATM and headed back to his Washington Heights home. He then left his wallet and medication for "a life-threatening medical condition" in his apartment. After two frantic days, a friend of Cohen's just told us some good news -- Cohen has......
Continue Reading "Missing Columbia Student Found"April 29, 2008
"About halfway through, I bit in and felt something hard and crunchy." That’s what NYU senior Benjamin Jarosch declared after eating part of a found muffin, and he wasn’t talking about a walnut: his innocuous-looking blueberry muffin was stuffed with three razorblades. Jarosch and his buddies had discovered the muffin, along with four others, wrapped in tin foil, upon arriving in the classroom. It seems they were left over from a previous class and were......
Continue Reading "Razors in Muffin Give NYU Student a Close Shave"April 5, 2008
A 24-year-old Columbia University student studying late at the library Friday evening is in critical condition at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan after his bid to escape a pair of muggers ended in serious injury under the wheels of a Jeep. According to WABC News, the student had just left the library on Columbia's Morningside Heights campus and was waiting for a bus around 9 p.m., when he was approached by two young men. It's......
Continue Reading "Columbia Student Run Down, Killed While Fleeing Muggers"March 4, 2008
The serial flusher responsible for two Koran toilet dunkings at Pace University has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to 300 hours of community service. Stanislav Shmulevich, a Russian immigrant, was a business major at the time of the incidents, in which a copy of the Koran was twice discovered in the toilet – the first time "covered in feces" – in October and November 2006. Shmulevich remained at large until last summer, when police connected......
Continue Reading "Former Pace Student Admits to Dumping Korans in Toilet"December 10, 2007
A Columbia grad student, Arun Wiita, and the New York Civil Liberties Union brought a lawsuit against the NYPD last Thursday. Over the summer, Wiita was photographing a subway station entrance and its surroundings at 207th Street and 10th Avenue as part of an ambitious 10-day photography project. He was detained by police, handcuffed and held for 30 minutes; now Wiita is "seeking compensatory damages and reimbursement of legal fees." He believes that his South......
Continue Reading "Columbia Grad Student Sues NYPD "November 12, 2007
A sophomore at New York University was found dead in his Water Street dorm room on Friday night. The Washington Square News reports that other residents were told about the death on Saturday and that the university did not send out an NYU community-wide email per a request from the deceased students' parents: "The family has asked that they be accorded the utmost privacy, and the university will do its best to honor its wishes......
Continue Reading "Apparent NYU Student Suicide in Downtown Dorm"
