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Sunday, November 27, 2005

Sad News, and
Unwelcome Publicity
For NYU


The cover story someone tried placing over the suicide of NYU student and Samsung fortune heiress Lee Yoon-hyung has failed. The initial vague claim of a car crash in New York, about which police could find no record, has given way to confirmation that, like an unsettlingly high number of other NYU students in the last few years, the 26-year-old killed herself, apparently after suffering for some time from depression.

This is a bad setback for NYU, which has struggled to understand and respond to half a dozen student suicides in the last couple of years. Because of the high-profile nature of this student and her family (her father heads scandal-plagued Samsung), this may be one of their most difficult episodes yet.

The irony is that she had barely arrived at the Steinhardt School of Education -- this was the first semester of her first year.