It is about David Harpin who committed suicide by jumping off of the Library. As a student worker here I remember hearing about it but was given lots of misinformation. I used our Microfilm Collection to try and find out what really happened. Below is what I found... (You only need to read this if you are interested. I have never had a question regarding this and it is probably not something we would want to promote.)
Click HERE for the cover page of the The Massachusetts Daily Collegian from May 15th, 1975.
Click HERE for just the article.
Click HERE for an article from the The Massachusetts Daily Collegian from May 16th, 1975 about the victim.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
7 comments:
Thank you for posting these articles about David Harpin. We were in the same class in high school and I lost touch with him after he went off to college.
I watched helplessly (like all the others) as he jumped and fell.
golden goose sneakers
nike sneakers
kate spade handbags
yeezy
goyard bags
golden goose
supreme outlet
goyard wallet
yeezy shoes
hermes
I was there in its entirety and saw it unfold from a field behind the student union.
Haunts me to this day...
I was there when he jumped off that building I was 12 at the time. I was visiting my uncle and cuz when it happened
It is strange how the mind works...I just happened to walk into a room where I had the TV playing for noise, and a show, New Amsterdam (S4,E13) was on. I've never watched it but there was an actress as a deaf lady whose character had a brother who jumped out a window in college. This brought up a memory of someone who had jumped off the library and I looked it up, and yes, I remember the drawing on his door with the "X" as I was also living in Webster Dorm at the time. It saddened me then and it saddens me now.
R.I.P. David Harper. I did not know you well, just as someone who lived in the dorm, but you touched lives in life as well as death. We will see you again.
I was there, directly on the lawn outside of the building when the young woman I was studying with, asked me "what's that?"
For a few seconds I couldn't tell what she was talking about, and then I saw people in from of the library looking skyward.
There's was far too much noise and visual clutter going on to say that everyone was yelling "jump, jump," but there's always assholes in life and those idiots truly were assholes.
And then he jumped, and I turned away because I couldn't view the aftermath.
And then my friend started to scream and cry, and she nearly fainted.
Over 47 years ago! And for what? Had he just relaxed.
Post a Comment