concord academy girl dead after a party

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<p>This is irrelevant to prep school admission, but to those of who are interested in Concord Academy, here’s a big news: </p>

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<p>Concord Academy student wandered from Andover party</p>

<p>By Jessica Van Sack
Monday, February 16, 2009</p>

<p>A 16-year-old Concord Academy student who died yesterday after abruptly leaving an Andover house party was a “caring and sensitive young lady,” according to her family.</p>

<p>Elizabeth Mun was “tragically taken from her family and friends,” her parents, Edward Mun and Sue Lee of Wellesley, said in a statement today.</p>

<p>“She was a caring and sensitive well-liked young lady who had a diverse group of friends,” the statement reads. “She enjoyed traveling with her family. Elizabeth was a young lady with many interests.”</p>

<p>She was involved in theater, field hockey, lacrosse, golf, figure skating and photography, according to her parents and Concord Academy’s Web site…</p>

<p>[Dead</a> teen girl called ‘caring, sensitive’ - BostonHerald.com](<a href=“http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1152465]Dead”>http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1152465)</p>

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<p>My guess is that this will surely have an impact on fellow boarding schools and that they will toughen up on their school rules.</p>

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<p>that’s really sad. i didn’t see if it was a homocide or accident or whatnot. did it say? may she rest in peace. :(</p>

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<p>I’m confused does she go to Andover or Concord? Or is her house in Andover?</p>

<p>I skimmed through it so not too sure.</p>

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<p>she goes to concord and the house is in andover.</p>

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<p>Didn’t someone drown at Concord as well? Or something related to the forest, I believe.</p>

<p>Don’t be fooled by the fact she died from a party, however… CA’s an amazing school and caters to some of the best in the world. I doubt she won’t be commemorated in some sort of way.</p>

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<p>The girl’s death is unfortunate and the circumstances are still mysterious. I can’t see that there is anything particular to boarding schools in this story. She was a day student who went to a weekend party at another student’s house.</p>

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<p>But off campus parties are where thing go wrong. </p>

<p>EX. Day student parents hosted DA graduation party - took over two years and $$$ to repair house damage and landscaping - and both parents were present and trying to keep things check. </p>

<p>EX. Another DA student’s parent got a call at 2:0am from house party in northern Vermont. They drove north picking up several student who wanted OUT at 5:00am. </p>

<p>EX. Last year NMH boarding senior who lived about two hours away invited crowd to his house for the weekend. Liqueur was present; school expelled a lot of seniors. NMH has zero tolerance on breaking honor code, on campus or off. </p>

<p>On the other hand I know of off campus co-ed D&D parties that really do just play D&D all night long. </p>

<p>But off campus is where students get into trouble.</p>

<p>When choosing a Prep school take a look at the rules for students leaving campus.</p>

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<p>I don’t see how this can tarnish Concord Academy’s reputation. It was simply an unfortunate off-campus accident. Very sad though. :(</p>

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<p>I wholeheartedly agree with Toadstool. Boarding schools tend to have less tolerance towards alcohol and drugs abuse and general partying… Just because teachers are always closely monitoring them and the rules are harsh, boarding school students try to get off campus as much as they can for parties at day students’ houses or their summer houses far away. This situation raises various complex issues regarding going off-campus such as who grants permission for you to leave campus(teachers? parents?), who you are allowed to get in the cars with, when you are supposed to come back, etc. Troubles with off-campus parties are something happen frequently at boarding schools minus the whole death part. It’s a cultural thing that you won’t really understand unless you are a student at Bs.</p>

<p>FYI. I didn’t post this article to “tarnish CA’s reputation.” Yes, she was a day student, but it’s something big that happened recently at CA that I thought may interest those of who are interested in the school.</p>

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<p>… I wasn’t accusing you.</p>

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<p>listen up, this girl obviously wasn’t in her “caring and sensitive young lady” mind when she went to a party…what SMART person would go to parties? All you do is drink and get introduced to drugs… Also, what do you make of it that she died right after the party? there is obviously some foul play involved. Don’t you find it queer that a popular, prestigious, successful girl would be an obvious target for some one jealous of them? Please post your own opinions…</p>

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<p>Actually, I think it is VERY queer that someone so awesome, prestigious, successful, etc. would die right after the party. I obviously suspect foul play. With the economy down, and other reasons, i think that people nowadays do much more dangerous and violent things…</p>

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<p>I know of a hell of a lot of smart people that go to parties. </p>

<p>I don’t have an opinion on what really happened and whether or not there was foul play because I don’t know anything about the situation.</p>

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<p>Lol Kurt did you really just ask what smart person would go to parties…umm ME. How about what smart person would drink and drive after a party or do drugs becuz of peer pressure. I mean…if you like to sit at home and study 24/7 thats you, but I wouldn’t say parties are for stupid people. You can socialize and be smart.</p>