ART: Last night the works of ex-Guided By Voices frontman Robbert Pollard were unveiled at an invite-only opening, and today it's a free-for-all. Come by and check out his debut art exhibit, which "will consist of more than 50 collages that date from 1990 through 2007. Using elements from 1950's -70's era magazines, pamphlets and obscure pictoral paperbacks as his primary tools, he portrays allegorical personas and hallucinogenic-type environments to create small, almost random synapses......

New York University is urging students who are feeling overwhelmed to contact the school's mental health facilities, a few days after one of its incoming freshman killed himself by jumping from the 15th-floor roof of his Union Square dorm on East 14th St. Eighteen-year-old "Trey" Allan Oakley Hunter III leapt to his death minutes after texting a goodbye message to his parents and brother. In an email sent out to students, university president John Sexton......

A freshman from New York University apparently committed suicide yesterday morning. The student, Allan Oakley Hunter III, jumped from the roof of University Hall, a 15-story dorm at 110 East 14th Street; his body was found in the courtyard. The Washington Square News reports that police were searching his room around 10AM yesterday morning and that his body was removed by 1PM. Friends told the Washington Square News that Hunter was "introverted but friendly," but......

The controversial documentary The NYU Suicides is being shipped overseas to places where it may seem a bit less controversial, it's also an Official Selection of the New York International Independent Film Festival. There will be a limited screening of the film in NYC this week as well, the first since it first premiered late this summer. The doc explores the year in which six NYU students leaped from Manhattan rooftops to their untimely deaths.......

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The expensive reality of living in the city is one thing, but being a student at a NYC university should enable you some ability to live here while you study. But NYU student Steve Stanzak's tale of living in the basement of Bobst Library shows what some will do to stay in the city. Stanzak, a sophomore, did not get enough financial aid to cover rooming and was already working jobs to cover costs......

The suicide of NYU student Diana Chien continues to upset the NYU administration and students. The Post, which uses an image of Chien falling from a building for its cover today, talks to students about the NYC factor of NYU. One student says, "At other schools, you have to adjust to school. The added burden of coming here is that you also have to adjust to New York City." A senior adds, "At NYU, it's......

A sophomore died after falling from the 6th floor window at 1 University Place. The Daily News reports that the police call it "an apparent suicide." The student, from Brooklyn, apparently went to another student's room in the non university-owned building to jump at 10PM last night. She was pronounced dead at St. Vincent's Hospital later. It's unclear whether she lived at 1 University Place or in Brooklyn. Gothamist is in no way an expert......

Yesterday, NYU President John Sexton sent a letter to students, informing them in the wake of the two suicides at Bobst Library, glass panel barriers would be put up in the Bobst Library's inner balconies. Additionally, as the Daily News reports, "70 Washington Square South will be restricted and extra guards will be posted to keep people away" as the panels are installed. Talks with contractors to install panels had been initiated after the......

The second suicide in a month in the Bobst Library has left NYU wondering what is going on. An 18 year-old jumped to his death from the 8th, 9th, or 10th floor last Friday and a 20 year-old jumped from the 10th floor. One library worker who was present during both suicides told the Daily News, "He just jumped - it was quick. I didn't look over the ledge. I looked the last time." Officials......