… which has had its share of upheaval lately:
An assistant professor of English there has died in custody after being arrested (for fighting with officers) during a domestic violence incident.
UD speculates that Samuel See killed himself in jail.
Details of the arrest here.
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Yet more details here, including:
The 34-year-old is not believed to have taken his own life. According to New Haven Independent, the young educator had had recent run-ins with police.
This from Yale Alumni Magazine:
On September 18, he was arrested on misdemeanor charges of assault and breach of peace.
He was on a leave from Yale which apparently had been hurriedly arranged, since he was reportedly signed up to teach his regular roster of courses.
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There are a number of possibilities in this sad unfolding story. One is that during the fight he was more badly hit than thought, and that he died, for instance, of an epidural hematoma, the sort of brain injury that killed Natasha Richardson.