Story and photo by Russ Lindquist

GROSSMONT COLLEGE–An unidentified student collapsed on the second floor of the library, Monday August 29 at 330pm.

Campus Officer Kenneth Coleman arrived within five minutes of  the call.

Among the witnesses of the collapse was tech-mall tutor Mojdeh Badiei who saw the fall from a distance and told Coleman that the student “just fell out of her chair.” Roxane BenVau, a media librarian and assistant professor said, “I heard her yelling, from my office, before she fell.”

Many on the scene speculated that the student had an epileptic seizure, including Karen McCoy, a multi-media technician.  She and Christian Jimenez were first to come to the student’s aid.  “I just made sure she was on her side and that she was not biting her tongue or choking,” said Jimenez.

After firefighters and paramedics were on the scene, the student was conscious and seemed coherent; still, the health and safety officials took the student to the hospital for evaluation.

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Lindquist is editor-in-chief of the GCSummit; email him at [email protected]