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The Indiana Daily Student

Man who jumped from dorm window still in critical condition

A South Bend man visiting IU attempted to commit suicide by jumping out of the third floor hallway window of an Ashton Vos dorm Wednesday night, police said. \nThe man, who is not an IU student, was in critical condition at Bloomington Hospital Thursday morning, IU Police Department Capt. Jerry Minger said.\nThe man told people in the dorm that he was going to dive out the window but no one took him seriously, Minger said, reading from the report. The floor residents returned to what they were doing and then heard someone running down the hall, glass breaking and a scream, Minger said. \nIUPD arrived to find a man lying on the west side of Ashton Vos with fragments of glass around him, Minger said. The window from Vos's third floor was broken, Minger said.\nThe man was conscious and had trouble breathing when police arrived and had a swollen left eye and lasceration on his upper lip, the report said. \n"We can only assume he meant to do some sort of harm to himself," Minger said. "(The floor residents) evidently didn't take him very seriously because they went back to what they were doing"

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