Today's New York mag counts up the dead bodies over at NYU. We'd rather look on the bright side: an epidemic of "contagious" suicide at NYU can only result in more affordable housing in the East Village.

More interestingly, this may be the first article to ever give Courtney Love credit for doing something good for the world:

[F]ew copycat suicides were documented after Kurt Cobain s death, a dearth researchers have attributed to Courtney Love s emotional denunciation of his act "I want you all to say asshole really loud. No one wanted to be an asshole.


A Dying Trend [NY mag]