NEW YORK — A Fordham University journalism student fell from the iconic campus clock tower while trying to get some shots of the city. <br />According to police, 22-year-old Sydney Monfries and her friends snuck into the Keating Clock Tower around 3 a.m. on Sunday and were planning on climbing to the top. <br />According to the New York Times, they scrambled up the steep staircase of the granite bell tower to get a view of the Bronx at night—and of course to send a Snapchat video. <br />Unfortunately, Monfries fell through an opening in a landing, and plummeted down the inside of the clock bell tower one a few weeks before her graduation. <br />According to the university, she was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she succumbed to her wounds on Sunday night. <br />The police found the senior unconscious inside the tower at around 3 a.m., with trauma to her head and neck. <br />According to the New York Times, the tower is off limits, but that has not stopped students from clambering to the top to catch a view. <br />The school said it is investigating how the students gained access to the tower.
