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Nov. 21, 2005 ]
Student injured in suspected fall from window
By Devon Lash
Collegian Staff Writer
A Penn State student has been hospitalized for serious back and neck injuries, which police said may have resulted from a fall from a fraternity house window around 5 a.m. Saturday.
The 19-year-old student was transported to Mount Nittany Medical Center and flown to Geisinger Medical Center after neighbors heard her calling for help outside of Tau Kappa Epilson fraternity, 346 E. Prospect Ave., early Saturday morning, the State College Police Department said. Police declined to release the woman's name.
State College police Detective Chris Weaver said medical professionals are optimistic about her condition and believe she will make a full recovery.
Doctors said the victim's injuries are consistent with a fall from "some height" -- at least a second-story window, Weaver said. Given the victim's location, he said, there are six possible windows from which she could've fallen.
Weaver said the woman was located in an alley on the west side of the house under the influence of alcohol and complaining of back and neck pain.
Weaver said police have determined the victim was drinking elsewhere until she arrived at Tau Kappa Epsilon around 11 p.m. He said fraternity members denied there was any large party at the fraternity that night or that the victim had been drinking at the house.
He said some fraternity members told police the victim was last seen sleeping inside the house around 2:30 a.m. Police have not determined the victim's whereabouts from 2:30 a.m. until she was discovered at 5 a.m.
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