<p>I don’t think they really “chose” it, when someone goes off a publicly owned bridge, in plain sight, and City of Ithaca personnel have to go in and fetch them, publicity is pretty much out of the university’s control. And I disagree, perhaps you were not around at the time but the amount of negative publicity surrounding those unfortunate events was highly substantial. Right here on CC it was accompanied by, and greatly exacerbated, a large amount of negative images about the university that had previously been in remission to a great extent. Even on this subforum there were such allegations.</p>
<p>I imagine that did have an impact, actually, on applications this go-round.</p>