Tower Breezeways’ Enclosure Urged After 2 CSUN Suicides
A California State University, Northridge safety board Wednesday recommended fully enclosing the upper-floor breezeways of the Sierra Towers, from which two young people have jumped to their deaths in 14 months.
The Public Safety Advisory Board voted to urge James W. Cleary, president of the Northridge campus, to erect “aesthetically pleasing” enclosures on the top five floors.
The group urged Cleary to order the work done as soon as possible, said campus police Chief Stanley D. Friedman, who chairs the 14-member board.
On Monday, 22-year-old Adam Joseph Korch of San Fernando jumped to his death from the eighth-floor breezeway, campus police said.
Police said Korch, a Northridge student until last June, was being treated by a psychiatrist at the time of his death. He left no note.
On Oct. 15, 1984, a Northridge engineering student leaped to his death from the towers’ sixth-floor breezeway.
The breezeways, connecting each floor of the towers, are flanked by four-foot-high concrete walls.
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