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Extra security guards were posted at New York University's 12-story Elmer Holmes Bobst Library in mid-October while construction workers installed glass walls to enclose the library's interior balconies after two students fell to their deaths from the Bobst balconies this autumn in separate cases of apparent suicide.
Stephen Bohler, an 18-year-old freshman from Dayton, Ohio, reportedly threw himself onto the library atrium's marble floor October 10 after climbing over an upper-story ledge. John D. Skolnik, a 20-year-old junior from Evanston, Illinois, died September 12 as students watched him fall from the 10th-floor balcony. The campus was unnerved a third time a week after Bohler's death, when NYU student Michelle Gluckman threw herself from a friend's 6th-floor kitchen window despite reported attempts by friends to pull her back inside the apartment.
Calling the deaths "devastating" and "unfathomable," NYU President John Sexton said in an October 13 memo that "aggressive measures must be taken to protect us against such traumas." He also stated, "We need to reassert for the library the...