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The Strange Case of Jakub Jan Janecka

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

Jakub’s one friend on Facebook.The name of the body found yesterday in Cascadilla Gorge has been released, and the details may shock you. His name is Jakub J. Janecka of Lake Ariel, PA, and he graduated in 1998. Why a Cornell alum would such make an eerie pilgrimage to Ithaca to commit suicide is as strange a question as it is tragic.

And, although we send our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Jakub Janecka, we believe that this story is worth investigating in the interest of preventing future suicides. With that in mind, anyone upset by this incident should talk to Gannett’s Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS).

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Probable Suicide in Cascadilla Gorge

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

Really sad: a body was recovered around 2pm today from Cascadilla Gorge below the Collegetown Bridge, according to the Daily Sun. It’s not certain that it was a suicide, but the Sun reports that “a Cornell Police officer stated that a person allegedly dove head-first into the gorge.” So if this is true, it’s almost definitely a suicide. The body has yet to be identified, but a source close to the rescue operation tells us that it was a Cornell student and might have been male. More on this as it comes.

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IvyGate Falls into Gorge of Preconceived Notions

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Yesterday, IvyGate accused Alex Cain’s school-sponsored blog “Over the Top” of making light of Cornell’s serious “gorge-related suicide problem.” (You know, that one that everyone talks about but doesn’t actually exist except in hyperlinks to 1994 NYT articles.) The offending statement was at the top of his blog: “They tried to make me go to the gorges but I said no no no.” Sorry, Maureen O’Connor, but I think Cain is just making a joke about the general despair of Cornell’s campus (in the middle of nowhere, cold, snowy) and less about some mysterious “they” (the demons in his head, perhaps?) telling him to go take the plunge. The real issue here is that Ms. O’Connor was so quick to read suicide into a joke about Cornell’s sucky qualities.

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