{"id":60202,"date":"2019-04-15T00:08:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=60202"},"modified":"2019-04-15T00:08:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T00:08:40","slug":"fordham-student-sydney-monfries-dies-injuries-falling-campus-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=60202","title":{"rendered":"Fordham student Sydney Monfries dies from injuries after falling from campus tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fordham University coed who plummeted 40 feet from the campus\u2019s landmark clock tower Sunday morning has died, according to school officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great sadness that I report that Sydney Monfries, a senior at Fordham College at Rose Hill, died today after sustaining a fall inside the Keating Clock tower in the early hours of the morning,\u201d school President Joseph McShane wrote in a letter sent to students Sunday evening and shared with The Post.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere are no words sufficient to describe the loss of someone so young and full of promise \u2014 and mere weeks from graduation, Fordham will confer a bachelor\u2019s degree upon Sydney posthumously, which we will present to her parents at the appropriate time,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>School officials confirmed the letter to The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Monfries, 22,&nbsp;fell from the clock tower after ascending a staircase&nbsp;inside early Sunday with friends to touch its bell and snap photos of the city, police said.<\/p>\n<p>She was on life support at St. Barnabas hospital Sunday afternoon when her mother and father from Portland, Ore., arrived with two priests \u2014 one dressed in a Fordham jacket.<\/p>\n\n<p>The father was seen sobbing as he left the hospital with one of the priests a short time later.<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Blake Paterson and Max Jaeger<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fordham University coed who plummeted 40 feet from the campus\u2019s landmark clock tower Sunday morning has died, according to school officials. \u201cIt is with great sadness that I report that Sydney Monfries, a senior at Fordham College at Rose Hill, died today after sustaining a fall inside the Keating Clock tower in the early &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[3703,3704,1803,3705],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - 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