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Aggie professor jumps to his death from campus parking garage
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:39 pm
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Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:40 pm to bpfergu
Jesus
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:40 pm to bpfergu
condolences
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:40 pm to bpfergu
I take
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:41 pm to bpfergu
That's a bummer. Wife and two sons left behind. Depression is a scary thing.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:41 pm to bpfergu
This isn't a troll is i?
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:41 pm to bpfergu
Oh god, that's horrible. RIP.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:42 pm to bpfergu
Depression is not something to be f-cked around with.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:43 pm to bpfergu
That's awful. Condolences
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:43 pm to lsutothetop
When I was there a kid jumped from a parking garage. It seems like there was 1-2 a year. At least he didn't take anybody else out with him.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:43 pm to bpfergu
Man that sucks, I wish his family the best as they try to get through this.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:44 pm to bpfergu
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This post was edited on 1/10/13 at 12:53 pm
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:45 pm to John Maplethorpe
You had 2 people a YEAR commit suicide from one parking garage??? Maybe ya'll should consider building up the wall or putting a net below or something because that is ridiculous.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:47 pm to bpfergu
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You had 2 people a YEAR commit suicide from one parking garage??? Maybe ya'll should consider building up the wall or putting a net below or something because that is ridiculous.
Agreed that that's really high, and something should probably be done about the design of the garage, but a person intent on suicide can find other ways.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:48 pm to bpfergu
They'll just find another way to do it.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:51 pm to bpfergu
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You had 2 people a YEAR commit suicide from one parking garage??? Maybe ya'll should consider building up the wall or putting a net below or something because that is ridiculous.
My 4 years there the only suicides I remember are the one where the kid walked onto the train tracks and then there was a kid shot in a car and left in a campus parking lot (not sure if it was ruled suicide or not)
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:53 pm to Phil Wenneck
That's not the point. The university should still make an active effort to at least try to combat the problem. It doesn't look very good when 2 people a year are jumping from the same parking garage and the university just accepts it as-is.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 12:59 pm to bpfergu
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The university should still make an active effort to at least try to combat the problem.
yea they should treat the actual problem not just fix that they built shite up really tall.
People will find a way to kill themselves and i'm actually alright with it because your life is the one thing you should have complete control over. /rant on why I think it's dumb that suicide is illegal.
This is sad, my condolences to everyone involved and everyone that knew him.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:01 pm to bpfergu
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Aggies are mourning the loss of a beloved Texas A&M University professor who apparently jumped to his death from a campus parking garage Tuesday morning.
Dr. James Aune — a Minnesota native who joined the faculty in 1996 and chaired the university's department of communication since 2011 — was an award-winning expert in rhetoric and known as a caring intellectual leader among students and colleagues.
According to College Station's KBTX, the body of the 59-year-old professor was reported around 10:30 a.m. near a six-story parking facility. A spokesperson with the university police said that foul play is not suspected, although more information is being collected.
"He was by far my favorite professor," recalled a former student. "[H]e was the one who inspired me the most to look at it as an opportunity to learn, not to get the best grade."
"I respected him enormously," Kurt Ritter, a retired A&M communications professor and close friend to Aune, told the Bryan-College Station Eagle.
"I'm deeply saddened by his passing. It's just tragic to me because he was such an asset to the university and those who knew him. He was a rare person who combined in one person a very impressive intellect, and at the same time was a wonderful human being. It's a terrible loss for our community and our university, and for our field."
Former student Joshua Weatherl said he found Aune's apparent suicide "drastically surprising," remembering him as a happy and delightfully offbeat instructor.
"He was by far my favorite professor," Weatherl told the Eagle. "I didn't know him super well but he was the one who inspired me the most to look at it as an opportunity to learn, not to get the best grade."
"A kind word from Jim was something many of us enjoyed," A&M writing professor Valerie M. Balester noted on a memorial website for Aune. "Thinking with him, just talking with him, was intellectually stimulating, never a contest, always a journey. Jim, I know you had your own way of seeing the world. It will be a lesser world without you."
Aune leaves behind his wife and two sons, both reported to be in their 20s.
Thoughts and prayers to the family.
Posted on 1/10/13 at 1:16 pm to bpfergu
Knew a girl that had him. By all accounts a great professor and seemingly happy person (which a lot of people seem to be before this).
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