Notable Events
- On Friday, October 20, 2006, an explosion occurred in a bathroom stall. The explosion resulted in more than $1,000 in damages.
- On Sunday morning, February 26, 2006, freshman business major Kyle Masterson died after falling from the eighth floor east balcony of the residence hall. The incident was ruled as an apparent suicide, and a note was found in Masterson’s room to support the ruling.
- In April 1998, Ivan Sychov was found dead in his room, room 300, on the third floor of Laws Hall. Sychov was a 20-year-old business major and native of Omsk, Russia. The cause of death was ruled as an accidental self-inflected hanging (auto-erotic asphyxiation in this case).
- In January 1992, freshman Colin Prock fell five floors down the elevator shaft to his death when he jumped from an elevator that was stalled between the third and fourth floors of the residence hall. The elevator had stalled after 15 students packed into it.
- In January 1982, an escaped prisoner was found hiding out in the residence hall. Barry Lauderdale had been sentenced in Boonville to two years in the state penitentiary, but he escaped through a fourth floor window of University Hospital where he had been brought for an examination. University police apprehended the prisoner and escorted him out of the building in leg irons.
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