Suicides

Columbia has had its share of suicides, much like other elite institutions of higher learning (but unlike NYU, which has had far more). If you or someone you know has made even a passing remark about suicide, it is suggested to contact Health Services immediately.

Partial list of suicides

Date	Person	Position	Notes
October 4, 1898	Henry E. McDermott	Assistant Professor of Chemistry	Prussic acid
November 11, 1901	Richard Mayo Smith	Professor of Political Economy	Jumped; possible accident
February 21, 1902	Isaac N. Henderson	PhD Candidate	Self-inflicted gunshot
January 27, 1906	William N. Van Reypen Jr.	Law School Student	Self-inflicted gunshot
February 27, 1906	Ralph C.B. Moore	Student	Drowning
January 23, 1907	Lathrop Smith	Law School student	Self-inflicted gunshot
November 16, 1907	Lucien M. Underwood	Professor of Botany	Slit throat
December 5, 1914	Robert H. Jones	Student	Self-inflicted gunshot
August 8, 1919	John Hipp	Student	Multiple: slit wrist, throat, and jumped)
October 16, 1921	Dorothy Wilson	Student	Jumped under train at 125th Street New York Central / Metro North
August 28, 1924	Francis E. Brooks	Professor of French	Hanging
March 9, 1925	Henry Mead	Student	Jumped from sixth floor of Hartley
March 14, 1926	Walton White	Student	Hanging
September 21, 1927	Oscar Petty	Professor of Linguistics	Drowning
May 13, 1928	Rollin F. Lewis	Student	Hanging
May 23, 1928	David Halfant	PhD Candidate in Economics	Self-inflicted gunshot)
June 7, 1929	Russell G. Smith	Professor of Sociology	jumped
March 9, 1930	Louis Finkelstein Law School student	jumped
May 11, 1933	Edgar F. Grossman PhD Candidate in Philosophy	self inflicted gunshot
June 16, 1937	Fred Lester Acer	student	lethal dose of sleeping medication
October 21, 1939	Robert E. Chaddock	Professor of Statistics	jumped
April 13, 1941	Marvin Krueger	Assistant Professor of Education	gas
September 11, 1941	Rudolf Schoenheimer	Professor of Biological Chemistry	toxic acid
May 3, 1942	Marion Ellis	student	gas
January 15, 1948	Habeeb Ahmed Faruqi	Teachers College student	jumped from ninth floor of Furnald
October 5, 1951	Dorothy Bordes	student	hanging
October 20, 1953	Edward R. Fenn	student	self-inflicted gunshot
July 21, 1954	Madeline Jean Sommers	summer student	fire
January 3, 1955	Lawrence Goldsmith Jr.	student	sedative overdose
April 28, 1958	Frank William Ritchie Jr.	General Studies student	self inflicted gunshot
April 17, 1960	Michael Bogost	student	potassium cyanide
November 26, 1961	Richard Kulick	Dental School student	self inflicted gunshot
May 4, 1965 | |Deborah Daniels|Teachers College student|jumped
November 25, 1968 |Christine Gallant|librarian |sleeping pill overdose drowned in bathtub
February 18, 1974 |Hsio Min Feng|Professor of Chinese |jumped in front of subway in Queens
September 24, 1988 |Jonathan A. Spohn|student |jumped from fourteenth floor of John Jay
September 20, 1998 |Shirley Yoon|student |jumped from twentieth floor of East Campus
September 21, 1998 |Darren Pascual|student |hanging
March 24, 2000 |Brian Malmon|student |suicide while on leave
April 20, 2000 |Puneet Bhandari|student |train collision
December 6, 2000 |Andrea Melendez|student |jumped off stairwell in Mcbain
November 9, 2001 |Nick Kemnitzer|student |unknown
December 13, 2003 |Fraser Lunan|student |suicide while on leave
May 7, 2006 |Richard Ng|student |jumped from the Brooklyn Bridge

(note: the above list is very incomplete as major media outlets, for the most part, stopped reporting on college suicides during the 1960s).