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Death at NYU’s Bobst Library Ruled an Accident; Drugs CitedA New York University student who fell to his death from an upper-floor interior balcony at New York University’s 12-story Elmer Holmes Bobst Library was under the influence of drugs at the time, the New York City medical examiner’s office said December 9. A spokeswoman for the office said that Stephen Bohler, an 18-year-old freshman from Dayton, Ohio, was high on marijuana and psilocybin when he threw himself onto the library atrium’s marble floor October 10, the New York Times reported December 10. The examiner ruled that Bohler’s death was an accident, not a suicide. Earlier, the death of John D. Skolnik, a 20-year-old junior from Evanston, Illinois, who leaped from Bobst’s 10th floor on September 12, had been found to be a suicide. After the two deaths, the library installed eight-foot-tall barriers on the upper floors around the interior balconies. A university spokesman told the Times that these were the only deaths to have taken place in the building since it opened in 1973. Posted December 12, 2003. |
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