May 24, 2002

A Suicide and Its Aftermath

By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL

An MIT sophomore's death underscores the balancing act between students' privacy and administrators' obligations

Robert M. Randolph has worked with students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 24 years. As associate dean of students and a housemaster at Bexley Hall, he lives among them, helping to mediate everyday complaints, like a neighbor's loud music, as well as larger ones, like a stolen computer.

But one morning more than a year ago, an e-mail message from a

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